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

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3gqr7p0lqo

Chocolate bars are being locked in plastic boxes in some UK shops as retailers and police forces warn thieves are stealing them to order.

Sainsbury’s said it had begun using “boxes on products which are regularly targeted”, with £2.60 bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk locked up in one London branch.

Chocolate was more recently being “sold on by criminals and is now being targeted more frequently by prolific offenders,” according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).

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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Who the fuck is stealing cadburys since they replaced most of the chocolate with palm oil?

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- GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, if you’re gonna steal chocolate, at least steal nice chocolate
  
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tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t

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- MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I think that principle is intended to apply to staples, when people in poverty are forced to steal food so as not to starve.
  
  Stealing bars of Dairy Milk and then selling them on seems like a different thing.
  
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  - prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Yeah but on the other hand, who fucking cares?
    
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  - Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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  - Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, stealing £25 hipster honey is just theft. Stealing some spuds could be survival.
    
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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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  - 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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- scholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
  
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  - TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Whether or not I saw something has zero to do with what they’re stealing and everything to do with where they’re stealing from.
    
    You do not steal from Mom and Pop shops. I will not say anything to the staff, but I might pay for it or I might direct you to a better place to go steal.
    
    If I see something in Walmart, no I fucking didn’t. I don’t care what it is.
    
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  - LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nah, I didn’t see jack, daniels or otherwise. Fuck the corporations.
    
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  - teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    These companies are stealing from people but you draw the line at a poor person stealing from them?
    
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  - tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Well I’ll draw the line at alcohol which I see as a public negative. But chocolate?
    
    Can you honestly tell me that the price increases for it have yielded in a better quality product. Someone has to rebalance that scale if the government wont.
    
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- booty@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Frankly if you see someone stealing from any corporation, no you didn’t. Mind your business.
  
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Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Sainsbury’s Leads FTSE 100 Higher As Profits Burst Through £1 Billion

Shares in Sainsbury’s edged higher on Thursday as it announced retail operating profit north of £1 billion for the first time last year.

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- tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  I’m super-suspicious of the “massive increase in shop theft” stories. I’m sure it has happened, does happen and has increased as poverty goes up in the UK. I’m just dubious about the gangs robbing stored made-to-order.
  
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- FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s funny how there is no chocolate without slavery. And yet they somehow make billions in profit.
  
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Toneswirly@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Cost of living skyrocketing, housing crisis worsening, a fifth of the population in poverty… shop owners can cry all they want about crime in their area but wont lift a finger to help their communities or will actively vote to increase wealth gaps. Then they try to get the BBC to run interference with drek like this to… what? Shame poor people in to stealing less? Solid plan.

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