Comment on Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech

Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As long as it’s just “shoplifting”. Where I’m at, people will come in on a bike with a trash bag, load it up, roll out, and go to the next town over and sell the stuff on the street in the ghetto.

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  • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s quite a story.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s pretty common here. A lot of stores have been hiring private security, but if the security intervenes then the thief can sue them.

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      • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I used to be in security. I couldn’t imagine getting paid a little over minimum wage and giving a shit about theft. The only ones that would were people who took it too goddamn seriously and we called them “tac heads” because they purchased all this tactical gear like the maglights like a fucking billy club and were looking for an excuse to throw down.

        Matter of fact that describes some cops too. Damn is there a serious problem with how we staff enforcement jobs.

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We call them “Entrepreneurs” lol

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  • guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boosters are public servants doing God’s work and I won’t hear a word said against them

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  • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cool story bro.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let me guess, you live in a safe, lily-white suburb😂

      Poverty breeds crime, but not all crime is of desperation.

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  • negativeyoda@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re getting ripped off even with a stolen Walmart bike.

    I work at a shop and people call us snobs because we won’t work on those deathtraps

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  • atetulo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just curious, do you get anything if you tell on them?

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tell what? All of it’s happening out in the open, the cops just refuse to do anything about it. It’s not like if you tell a cop they’ll be like “oh shit I had no idea, let me go run over there and do my job for once, thank you citizen!”

      To be fair to cops, they’re understaffed and they don’t want to do their jobs for fear of activists suing them. But all of those suits are paid for with tax dollars, so idk why they care, just do your job and if they sue you, they sue you.

      I think it boils down to laziness but with the excuse of being sued.

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      • atetulo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tell on people who are shoplifting.

        All of it’s happening out in the open

        Then what did you mean by:

        As long as it’s just “shoplifting”

        To me, it seems like you were saying that if you saw people “on a bike with a trash bag, load it up, roll out” then you would snitch, since this comment chain is about not telling on people who are stealing from corporations.

        Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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• AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like it depends. Stealing is morally wrong no matter what. But I’d probably act as if I saw nothing if someone just stole a sandwich or similar. I’m not sure I’ll act the same if I see a teenage girl of a family that is obviously very well off steal things like makeup (that one literally bragged about it in front of her parents during a dinner where I was invited).

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  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    During Walmart employee onboarding they literally have training on how to apply for government benefits. This is not hyperbole, it is fact. They pay their workers so little that the US taxpayers are forced to subsidize their business model through societal safety nets designed for true emergencies and need, not just corporate greed. But Walmart has managed to monetize that too.

    So fuck Walmart. See THAT theft first.

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  • nephs@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In our society people are acknowledged human through consumption, and that need is hammered onto our heads by ads and beauty norms everywhere.

    Belonging is a human need. Sometimes some cheap makeup is all it takes.

    But also, the rich people are stealing from us in so much worse ways. A rich teen stealing from a rich corporation is kind of karmaeic, and really, even if she was caught, nothing significant would happen, whilst a poor girl doing the same would suffer a lot more.

    Ergo, if you see something, no you didn’t.

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    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This guy gets it.

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  • Iunnrais@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know that stealing is morally wrong no matter what. My rabbi taught that if a man steals to survive, the crime is not his, but of his community because they did not save him from poverty. That teaching really stuck with me. Yes, stealing indicates something is seriously wrong in the world, but there’s a big difference in where the evil lies— is it in the thief, or in the society?

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  • atetulo@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stealing is morally wrong no matter what.

    🤡

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unless they’re stealing guns or ammo.

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  • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You know what, I’ll make that exception.

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• r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The employees can potentially get fired.

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