Chocolate bars are being locked in plastic boxes in some UK shops as retailers and police forces warn thieves are stealing them to order.
Sainsbury’s said it had begun using “boxes on products which are regularly targeted”, with £2.60 bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk locked up in one London branch.
Chocolate was more recently being “sold on by criminals and is now being targeted more frequently by prolific offenders,” according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).
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tetris11@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t
MurrayL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I think that principle is intended to apply to staples, when people in poverty are forced to steal food so as not to starve.
Stealing bars of Dairy Milk and then selling them on seems like a different thing.
tetris11@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
It’s bringing the price of that product back to reasonable market levels and having a knock on effect on the general pricing of that product in general.
Whilst I agree it’s different from stealing staple foods, it’s still something I’d happily turn a blind eye to as it’s an unofficial public service
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
They’re selling them to people who can’t afford to buy them at the actual stores for full price. Essentially a service where you pay someone to take on the risk of stealing for you, plus a sort of grocery UberEats.
Where there’s demand, there’s supply, the people who do the supply part looks like learning to code hasn’t worked out for them so good, nor has our society in general. People who do the demand part, they’re just poor.
There’s a vice documentary about this and from the people shown it’s pretty clear that they’re not going through all the hassle of this because they have such easy lavish lives.
scholar@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
If you see someone shoving six bottles of whisky in their coat, yes you did.
There’s a difference between stealing for survival and stealing for profit.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Nah, I didn’t see jack, daniels or otherwise. Fuck the corporations.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Whether or not I saw something has zero to do with what they’re stealing and everything to do with where they’re stealing from.
You do not steal from Mom and Pop shops. I will not say anything to the staff, but I might pay for it or I might direct you to a better place to go steal.
If I see something in Walmart, no I fucking didn’t. I don’t care what it is.
teft@piefed.social 9 hours ago
These companies are stealing from people but you draw the line at a poor person stealing from them?
tetris11@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Well I’ll draw the line at alcohol which I see as a public negative. But chocolate?
Can you honestly tell me that the price increases for it have yielded in a better quality product. Someone has to rebalance that scale if the government wont.
booty@hexbear.net 11 hours ago
Frankly if you see someone stealing from any corporation, no you didn’t. Mind your business.