Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but on the other hand, who fucking cares?

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• Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think stealing from corporations is always ok, honestly if you steal that slop you deserve it. If you’re buying it you have already lost.

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sainsbury’s profit margins are about 3.8%. Any individual profit might have a larger margin than that, but the maximum downwards pressure on price you can exert overall is that much, which equates to 10p on a £2.75 bar of dairy milk. Is that what you mean by a public service?

    Chocolate has experienced extremely high inflation lately because climate change is causing crop failures in countries where chocolate is grown.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      3.8% over what time period? If that’s still compounding from the 7.2% from last year isn’t that still an overall increase for the shareholders?

      You make it sound like they’re so close to losing money

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m calculating this from this article linked up the thread, dated April 2025, which says their profits were “just north” of £1 billion on £26.6 billion of revenue.

        I’m not an accountant so I dunno if this is the exact right figure - further down the article it says their pre-tax profit was £761 million, which gives you a lower gross margin of 2.9%. I’m sure these different figures just reflect different ways of looking at the same numbers but the point is the same - Sainsbury’s is not, overall, gouging people on prices. Surely some products are overpriced, but others are loss leaders.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, stealing £25 hipster honey is just theft. Stealing some spuds could be survival.

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They often get flogged in pubs around where I am, I absolutely have never ever bought Pringles off a guy for £1 a tube rather than the ripoff £3.50 they retail at.

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