Remember folks, if you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t.
People taking fruit, cereal, milk… sure. But taking premium steaks, beer/wine/spirits, or anything else they can resell - no, that’s just theft.
I feel like you assume they’re reselling for a business. They could be buying baby shoes, or a gift for that nephew for his birthday, to make him forget how bad life is.
No, most people who steal steaks are taking them to the pub and selling them for drugs or similar. Huge problem in the UK at least.
If you want baby shoes you steal baby shoes.
Alternate headline : “Supermarkets have jacked the prices so high, making record profits in tough times, that people have resorted to stealing in order to live”.
I saw a shitty looking steak at coles the other day, over $60 a KG. It had bloody RFID sensors on it. What a world.
That would be communism. Socialism is (partially) at work in European countries where we have captialism at the base, but using that to feed socialist programs.
Yeah, they’ve been tearing a lot of it down lately, but still
Shoplifting isn’t happening because of capitalism.
It’s happening because the local government won’t prosecute the people that do shoplift
Or it’s because many grocery chains used COVID as a reason or excuse to raise prices and refuse to lower them despite supply chains healing, during a time where literally everything a modern human needs to survive becomes nearly unreashable expensive.
But sure, it’s because cops aren’t shooting enough shiplifters.
A lot of it is because of need. The lower rungs of our society have been pushed to the point where the risk of being caught and jailed is less of a driver than hunger. The social fabric is unravelling. I just hired someone and I’m giving them a living wage and I’m getting suspicion in return.
Are you suggesting that nobody ever stole anything from a store in a socialist/communist country?
Shoplifting is happening because the economy is fucked, and plenty of people see the risk of shoplifting to be worth the reward of access to the things they need.
You can be a compassionate person, and work fix this problem by offering better safety nets and access to human needs to the needy, or you can take the fascist route and demand expansion of the state to punish the poor even further.
Pay people more so theft goes down? Fucking never!
Give body cameras to staff. Sounds perfect
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In Australia Woolies and Coles are artificially jacking prices up, this isn’t about wages but about corporate greed using inflation as a disguise to rip off literally everyone. Instead they should be forced to lower prices.
I mean, people should get payed more, but what do you expect a single (relatively) small grocery chain to do? Also this is more about protecting staff as they have to be the ones to turn them on when an incident occurs rather than an always-on thing
In the context of the country this is taking place in, Coles cannot be considered small by any stretch of the imagination
People can’t afford to shop at those small stores. When I was making $100k I exclusively shopped at locally owned stores. But after being laid off, I can only afford to shop at Walmart and Amazon.
Considering how much shit I see retail workers go through, this… honestly seems like a rational response. I’m sure it will immediately turn into middle managers using it to abuse employees of course though.
