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grocery shopping
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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
But we can’t rob a factory.
not with that attitude!
tomiant@piefed.social 7 months ago
If laws don’t apply for the rich, get fucked, they don’t apply for me either. Fuck your system.
python@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]copd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
in the UK they weigh the baggage area and if you don’t scan something it’ll should “UNEXPECTED ITEM I THE BAGGAGE AREA” and you get publicly shamed by all the whiter than white old people.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 7 months ago
at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.
they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.
me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Your local Kroger isn’t robbing you. Neither are their suppliers in general, but even so you are not punishing them by shoplifting. The store already paid the producer for it regardless of whether the item is sold or stolen, meaning they don’t care either way.
If you want to steal, that’s your prerogative, but don’t pretend that you’re morally justified to take out your frustrations on someone unrelated.
Angelevo@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Turns out the USA never left the Wild Wild West age.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 7 months ago
The hand of the market is doing the lifts
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 7 months ago
Are you Uncle Leo?
On a tangent, I just found out that Len Lesser was not only quite handsome in his younger years, he was also an extra in one of my favorite movies, the original “Papillon.”
Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It takes a big man to accept government assistance.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s getting shut down too, they already fired most of the SNAP employees.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 7 months ago
They’ve declared no SNAP for November, now
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
cwime…
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 7 months ago
I never shoplifted. But if I saw a shoplifter I have to say no, I didn’t. No idea what you are talking about. None whatsoever. Here is my receipt for my stuff… what other guy? I don’t look at other people. Kindly leave me be. Good day!
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Makes sense, although at the same time the price of things you buy is based on the cost with theft factored in already. More thefts mean they would have to adjust the calculation and prices go up to cover it. I don’t know how far that goes, 99% theft and the 1% spending £50 on a loaf of bread?
Part of it depends what someone is stealing, if its a bag of potatoes or some bread, you are probably desperate. If its a 4k TV I don’t have that same sympathy.
kreiger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Prices go up more when inflation goes up, and they go up again when inflation goes down. Then they go up again because of war, or tariffs, or because of fuck the poor.
Theft is far far down the list of reasons to raise prices.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Much more sustainable to shoplift a little bit at once. Steal like 1 item when you buy 10, make it something small. Oops, it just slid under something in your bag. Don’t make it the most expensive item of your shop.
The_v@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In my area the self checkout systems at the grocery store often fritz out an don’t register the item. This is even after they beep. It’s truly wonderful. I consistently get 50% or more of the items in my cart for free. Nothing they can do to me either. They have me on video scanning every item. If their system buggers up the total it’s on them.
If they want somebody to catch computer errors then there’s a thing called “pay a employee.”
tomiant@piefed.social 7 months ago
I’m not saying this is moral or anything, but if you buy something expensive, then you could theoretically go back to the store with the receipt, pick another of that thing from the store, and go to the register and tell them you want to return it.
I have been homeless. You do what you need to survive.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hey, don’t feel bad. A giant chain won’t go under because someone desperate needed to eat.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Also don’t do it AT the register. Those cameras are much closer and better than the cameras pointing down the aisles. Sure, you can say you made a mistake, voiding the ‘intent’ of the crime, but you’re much more likely to get caught and banned.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
voiding the ‘intent’ of the crime
Worth noting that Target is known for making a profile on lifters. They wait you til you hit a threshold for a felony. The repeated behavior makes the intent clear as well.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve literally seen people just walk out with a cart full of shit. Employees chasing and yelling but nothing comes of it.
Depends on where you are but where I’m at they don’t go after anyone for this.
It’s sad because everything is getting locked up or they just close locations.
sundray@lemmus.org 7 months ago
You stole ingredients? Now you have to cook, fool!
Valmond@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fool of a Took!
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 7 months ago
That’s the idea, yes
sundray@lemmus.org 7 months ago
Ugh, I hate cooking.
Love stealing, though 😈
bizarroland@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I recently saw a clip of a video where a girl was working checkout at Walmart and the person just pushed their cart through the checkout and walked out the store with it and she was just like, well, whatever.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
They are trained not to care unless they are loss-prevention for their own well being, and the latter can really only report the theft.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
They explicitly told us to not confront shoplifters. There was a training video where a guy got his ass kicked in the parking lot.
sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I know everyone here says that this is somewhat safe because the employees are told not to interfere. But what you really need to worry about is the store building a case against you across multiple instances of shoplifting, and then reporting you to the police as soon as you’ve stolen a felony amount.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So you’re telling me it’s all good if I do it only once or twice? Sign me up.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 7 months ago
This; as much as I have no moral qualms about the practice, there’s massive risk that’s not always obvious to see.
PacMan@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Freaky@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The person at the counter counted more coupons than cash that day.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
It’s why they have those annoying gates at Kroger now, to stop people from just walking out with carts full of groceries.
Lame.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 months ago
!shoplifting@anarchist.nexus
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 7 months ago
Yeah we have a place around the corner called the market where people shop for free. You can only shop twice a month tho.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
How would you get that much stuff out of a store without getting caught? Slipping a candy bar in your bra or a can in your bag is easy, but when you’ve gained 5+ kg of weight in the store, the cashier might get a tad bit suspicious. I guess you could make multiple trips, but I think cashiers or guards would notice when the same person has gone into the store 9 times without buying anything.
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
The post is likely fake.
You are not gonna pass by a particularly attentive loss prevention team, even if small. But some stores do wait until you steal enough to make it a felony.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
You can just walk out. Most places won’t stop you.
nuko147@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Damn, you’re gonna need a big jacket to sneak all of that out.
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 7 months ago
And super long arms.
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 7 months ago
or pantyhose
Cavemanfreak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Esquie, is that you??
nuko147@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is this a Ryanair jacket?
RedStrider@lemmy.world 7 months ago
think i saw that guy preform this must be the place