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- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 week ago:
I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world’s problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world so they could vote for more racism and despair.
Unless you have evidence that supermarkets are artificially inflating prices this isn’t going to fix anything. Goods cost money to make. Shoplifting doesn’t pay for the production of goods. This isn’t a sustainable way of supplying people with food. It raises prices for customers. It exposes shop workers to violence and abuse. It funds criminal gangs.
And then to top it all off people like you come swanning in thinking you’re supporting Robin Hood and his merry men and that just a few more shoplifters will cause Tesco to collapse and that whatever replaces it (because you haven’t actually thought about what replaces it) will be some Star Trek utopian paradise compared to the devilry of having to pay cost + a margin. (Hint: Robin Hood gave to the poor, not sold to the poor).
What you may notice about Co-op and Waitrose (one being a consumer co-operative and the other owned by a trust on behalf of its employees) is that they are on the more expensive side of supermarkets. They aren’t transferring your money to the ultra rich. They aren’t funding the campaigns of right wing would-be dictators. They are paying a fair price for the goods that they sell, and they are paying a fair wage to the employees who work there. The other supermarkets are often cheaper on many items. Mass shoplifting isn’t going to help this.
The real problem is that the cost of many goods is too high. The real causes of this are climate change, international conflict, brexit and other tariffs, labour related costs, and to some extent, profiteering of the part of the producers. Notice how shoplifting doesn’t address any of these issues.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 week ago:
By all means shop at Coop and Waitrose then, but you’re missing the point: this is making things more expensive for everyone else. Shops have to raise prices to offset losses and investment in security.
If everyone bought stolen goods the legitimate shops would go out of business and the shoplifters would have nowhere to steal from. Your cheap goods are being subsidised by honest customers.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 week ago:
Producer - has already been paid by legitimate shop for goods, isn’t affected by theft. Legitimate shop - pays for goods then doesn’t get paid. Is affected.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
Most of the price inflation is because of global supply factors, such as war and climate change driving up the cost of wheat and cocoa, for example.
Shop attendants are absolutely affected as the number of violent and abusive confrontations was estimated around 1300 per day in 2024.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
My local shop is stealing from me?
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t affect them: they’ve already been paid. It’s the shop who takes the loss and the average customer who ends up paying more.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
Because the targets of theft then have to invest in more security while making less money, raising prices for customers.
The shop that bought the item legitimately has to pay the full price of the item from the manufacturer / distributor. They have to sell the item at cost + VAT + a percentage to make money
The thief can sell at whatever price they like because they have no costs and don’t pay VAT on the sale.
The second shop has to sell the item at the new cost + new VAT + a percentage to make money. They save twice, on the cost of the item and the amount of VAT they pay.
The people who lose from this are:
- The legitimate business owners who pay full price and make nothing.
- Legitimate customers who pay increased prices
If the legitimate shop goes out of business then the whole system fails. Your cheap coke is being subsidised by honest customers.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
You would watch criminal gangs strip your local shop of high value items to resell for profit, and then offer to pay for it? We’re not talking about someone in need stealing essentials here.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t people stealing chocolate because it’s expensive, it’s people stealing chocolate, cuts of meat, and alcohol etc. to resell. They aren’t ‘rebalancing’ anything, they are organised groups who are stealing in bulk to make a profit. This actually increases prices of those goods for everyone else.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Check mate, Libertarians 1 month ago:
You can try it yourself, sit in a chair or the edge of your bed, and tap your knee just below the kneecap with your fingertips. You should be able to feel your leg twitch.
- Comment on Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC 1 month ago:
The combat is fine, my only issue with it was the camera trying to get you killed, especially around corners. Still one of the best games Ubisoft have ever made.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 months ago:
That’s why I only get my information from lemmy comments
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 months ago:
It’s actually anti-lock breaking system, super high end; not many cables have it
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
We’re not told much about the Independant Planets, certainly nothing suggests that they themselves did anything wrong (other than secede). You seem to have a problem with their superficial resemblence of the confederacy.
Mal and his crew are thieves and smugglers, not pirates or murderers. The ‘Mal is latin for bad’ line another commenter mentioned was a red herring in an episode. They aren’t evil people intent on subjugation.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
There’s no indication that slavery was a factor, only political self-determination
- Comment on 3 months ago:
When you turn it on it boots to a controller friendly UI that shows you all your steam games. No setup, no hunting for drivers, no bloat.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 3 months ago:
you’d be surprised how cheap a politician can be
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 4 months ago:
“Now pay us lots of money and we’ll give you more genius insights”
- Comment on Summoning Circle 6 months ago:
Then they’d be sandwitches
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
I haven’t cited any laws or said what they did was wrong, just that the government doesn’t like having its toys broken. Absolutely setting fire to a nazi train may be the morally correct thing to do, but you can still understand the nazis not being happy about it: these aren’t mutually exclusive propositions.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
I think the better question is ‘Does what they did justify them being classed as terrorists’ rather than ‘Were they entrapped by government agents’.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
Jet engines may react poorly with paint in the intakes. Those aircraft will need to be inspected and possibly repaired/maintained before they are allowed in the air again. That is sabotage.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
It’s not even really a Labour issue, support for Israel has been a long standing policy (partly because the UK was largely responsible for the creation of Israel back in the 1920s) and the motion to proscribe Palestine Action was broadly supported by every party. Regardless of the morality it was completely obvious and expected that breaking into a military base and damaging expensive aircraft was going to have consequences.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
‘Palestine Action’ definitely refers to the group, otherwise you’d just put ‘Palestine’. I don’t think they did this to protest ant-terrorism laws, they’ve been very focused on targeting the genocide in Palestine so starting a new off-topic fight wouldn’t make sense for them.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
I don’t think there’s any need for false flag conspiracy theories. Palestine Action took credit for breaking into Brize Norton. I can only assume they thought it would generate enough attention to be worth the risk.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
It certainly made proscribing them an easy sell; you won’t find many people who think it’s unreasonable of the government to take a dim view of sabotage.
Hopefully it won’t distract too much from the bigger story of almost everyone apart from the government taking a dim view of genocide.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 8 months ago:
It’s a specific group that recently broke into an RAF base and started mucking about with the aircraft, hence why the government aren’t their biggest fans.
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 8 months ago:
If it helps, etymonline has them the other way around with ‘golly’ being a mild oath for god and ‘gollywog’ not having a definitive link.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 8 months ago:
AMD also has hardware support for raytracing and both are using the same API for raytracing. Nvidia just has a head start and deeper pockets.
This isn’t Cuda or Gameworks where the features depend on Nvidia hardware, it’s more like Tessellation where they can both do it but Nvidia cards did it better so they pushed developers into adding it into games.