Submitted 2 days ago by SSUPII@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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We do steal every time. Somewhat around the amount everything went more expensive. Not because we need to, but out of principle. Mostly around 20% of what we buy. We are old and don’t look stereotypical enough, so we never get controlled.
They rob us, we rob back. It’s only fair. And yes, we know it’s not the shops that rob us, but the manufacturers. But we can’t rob a factory.
But we can’t rob a factory.
not with that attitude!
You’re right, we just lack dedication 😫
If laws don’t apply for the rich, get fucked, they don’t apply for me either. Fuck your system.
Aye, simple as that.
Samesies! My partner isn’t vegan, so whenever I’m buying food for him, I just so happen to pull it a bit too quick over the self-checkout scanner so I guess it doesn’t scan, oops 🥺
They beep so fucking loud here, this would not fly well with a cashier (or can) that watches well 😁
But we came up with different ways to do it over time. And yes, self checkout mostly, but we also do it at register if we have to. The most brazen one was a whole fucking door we drove by the cashier while my wife distracted him with questions and her charme 😁
We should not be proud of that, but we are. We probably wouldn’t even have noticed the price hikes. But I absolutely despise that they force you to pay more for things you can’t boycott. I can just not buy a car, but I can’t not buy food to protest. Fucking greed.
at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.
they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.
me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.
in the UK they weigh the baggage area and if you don’t scan something it’ll should “UNEXPECTED ITEM I THE BAGGAGE AREA” and you get publicly shamed by all the whiter than white old people.
Turns out the USA never left the Wild Wild West age.
I’m no murican…
The hand of the market is doing the lifts
Your local Kroger isn’t robbing you. Neither are their suppliers in general, but even so you are not punishing them by shoplifting. The store already paid the producer for it regardless of whether the item is sold or stolen, meaning they don’t care either way.
If you want to steal, that’s your prerogative, but don’t pretend that you’re morally justified to take out your frustrations on someone unrelated.
GROCERY STORES REACH INSANE AND UNPRECEDENTED PROFITS!CEO STATES ‘WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO? STARVE? LOL SUCK IT PLEBS’
This guy - “GrOcErY sToReS arEn’T RobBinG U, HaVe U cOnsIdeRed tEh CeOs FeeLiNgs?”
Whatever a “Kroger” might be, but luckily the world has morally intact people like you! And I’m not frustrated, it’s not about the money, it’s the principle. Someone in the chain did raise prices for items I can’t boycott, I don’t care who. Also I don’t need justification. To whom should I justity? to you? lol.
Are you Uncle Leo?
On a tangent, I just found out that Len Lesser was not only quite handsome in his younger years, he was also an extra in one of my favorite movies, the original “Papillon.”
I know everyone here says that this is somewhat safe because the employees are told not to interfere. But what you really need to worry about is the store building a case against you across multiple instances of shoplifting, and then reporting you to the police as soon as you’ve stolen a felony amount.
So you’re telling me it’s all good if I do it only once or twice? Sign me up.
This; as much as I have no moral qualms about the practice, there’s massive risk that’s not always obvious to see.
It takes a big man to accept government assistance.
That’s getting shut down too, they already fired most of the SNAP employees.
They’ve declared no SNAP for November, now
I never shoplifted. But if I saw a shoplifter I have to say no, I didn’t. No idea what you are talking about. None whatsoever. Here is my receipt for my stuff… what other guy? I don’t look at other people. Kindly leave me be. Good day!
Makes sense, although at the same time the price of things you buy is based on the cost with theft factored in already. More thefts mean they would have to adjust the calculation and prices go up to cover it. I don’t know how far that goes, 99% theft and the 1% spending £50 on a loaf of bread?
Part of it depends what someone is stealing, if its a bag of potatoes or some bread, you are probably desperate. If its a 4k TV I don’t have that same sympathy.
Prices go up more when inflation goes up, and they go up again when inflation goes down. Then they go up again because of war, or tariffs, or because of fuck the poor.
Theft is far far down the list of reasons to raise prices.
cwime…
How would you get that much stuff out of a store without getting caught? Slipping a candy bar in your bra or a can in your bag is easy, but when you’ve gained 5+ kg of weight in the store, the cashier might get a tad bit suspicious. I guess you could make multiple trips, but I think cashiers or guards would notice when the same person has gone into the store 9 times without buying anything.
You can just walk out. Most places won’t stop you.
The post is likely fake.
You are not gonna pass by a particularly attentive loss prevention team, even if small. But some stores do wait until you steal enough to make it a felony.
I recently saw a clip of a video where a girl was working checkout at Walmart and the person just pushed their cart through the checkout and walked out the store with it and she was just like, well, whatever.
They are trained not to care unless they are loss-prevention for their own well being, and the latter can really only report the theft.
They explicitly told us to not confront shoplifters. There was a training video where a guy got his ass kicked in the parking lot.
Much more sustainable to shoplift a little bit at once. Steal like 1 item when you buy 10, make it something small. Oops, it just slid under something in your bag. Don’t make it the most expensive item of your shop.
In my area the self checkout systems at the grocery store often fritz out an don’t register the item. This is even after they beep. It’s truly wonderful. I consistently get 50% or more of the items in my cart for free. Nothing they can do to me either. They have me on video scanning every item. If their system buggers up the total it’s on them.
If they want somebody to catch computer errors then there’s a thing called “pay a employee.”
I’m not saying this is moral or anything, but if you buy something expensive, then you could theoretically go back to the store with the receipt, pick another of that thing from the store, and go to the register and tell them you want to return it.
I have been homeless. You do what you need to survive.
Hey, don’t feel bad. A giant chain won’t go under because someone desperate needed to eat.
Also don’t do it AT the register. Those cameras are much closer and better than the cameras pointing down the aisles. Sure, you can say you made a mistake, voiding the ‘intent’ of the crime, but you’re much more likely to get caught and banned.
voiding the ‘intent’ of the crime
Worth noting that Target is known for making a profile on lifters. They wait you til you hit a threshold for a felony. The repeated behavior makes the intent clear as well.
I’ve literally seen people just walk out with a cart full of shit. Employees chasing and yelling but nothing comes of it.
Depends on where you are but where I’m at they don’t go after anyone for this.
It’s sad because everything is getting locked up or they just close locations.
You stole ingredients? Now you have to cook, fool!
Fool of a Took!
That’s the idea, yes
Ugh, I hate cooking.
Love stealing, though 😈
Yeah we have a place around the corner called the market where people shop for free. You can only shop twice a month tho.
Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
*shopping shopplifting
It’s why they have those annoying gates at Kroger now, to stop people from just walking out with carts full of groceries.
Lame.
The person at the counter counted more coupons than cash that day.
!shoplifting@anarchist.nexus
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Damn, you’re gonna need a big jacket to sneak all of that out.
Cavemanfreak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Esquie, is that you??
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 day ago
And super long arms.
nuko147@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Is this a Ryanair jacket?
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 1 day ago
or pantyhose
RedStrider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
think i saw that guy preform this must be the place