Comment on No one could have seen this coming
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 hours agoNo, you are naive. Yes, grocery stores do calculate losses into their budget and thus are able to absorb a certain amount, but you know who pays for it? Everyone who doesn’t shoplift, by paying more than they’d need to so the store can afford the insurance policy. No store can absorb unlimited losses, they’ll simply close up shop if they can’t turn a profit, and then your neighborhood will turn into a food desert.
your_dead_pet_goldfish@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Cool strawman. Obviously unlimited losses would ruin anyone but that is impossible and most stores operate well within their expected loss margins, so markups are arbitrary or caused by inflation. Backing up a bit, you are again blaming the more vulnerable group in this. Be mad at the CEOs and politicians that keep people poor, not the poor people trying to survive. Crime drops in direct proportion to drops in poverty
Also, you keep repeating corporate propaganda. It is more common for these companies to use shoplifting as an excuse to close stores that they already intended to close rather than closing them because shoplifting was actually a problem.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
Okay, so if unlimited losses are impossible, everyone should just steal, right?