“It was razors, cheese, coffee. Today, these people that are taking stock from convenience stores, from supermarkets, it’s taken to order. So chocolate is primetime now.”

It is not lost on me that the setting of 1984 takes place in a conquered England where chocolate rations are regularly reduced, nor is it lost that people in “Airstrip One,” the new name for England, are constantly trying to acquire necessities and specifically razor blades.

The fact that people are stealing these items in particular is concerning.