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    Greed causes an over abundance of theft. If there is excessive theft, it’s because of excessive greed.

    When people are struggling and banks are telling retailers there is excessive consumer surplus, and retailers raise prices excessively (greed), theft will inevitably increase.

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    If there is a rise in theft it absolutely isn’t having an impact on the record breaking profits being reported. Fuck em.

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        The rich are the thieves. <-Period

        You can see the blood everywhere. It’s even worse because they produce absolutely nothing.

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      If I see someone shoplifting necessities, no I didn’t. If I see someone shoplifting stupid luxury items, maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. Depends on the situation. If it’s a dumbass white kid who thinks they’re being funny, I sure as fuck did.

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        White people can be poor, or motivated by any other force motivating any other ethnicity thief.

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        And then low cost grocery stores close and neighbors starve. How about you help them pay for it since you are there? Is a little personal ownership over the things you see too much for you?

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          How about the government does better to ensure that it’s people don’t starve? Or maybe companies should pay their employees more instead of funnelling money to people who are already more than set for life?

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            We’re talking about you and your actions. Additionally, you are making the problem worse.

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        A reminder not to rat on people failing to make ends meet, when the only damage they cause is a slightly lower profit for a corporation whose CEO lives the private jet lifestyle.

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          While that might be the only direct result, you’re also assuming that A) it’s only taking place in major chain stores and B) that the effects won’t include price hikes for everyone to compensate for that slight dip in profits.

          In reality, corporations have showed us they’re never going to just “take the L”. If something negatively impacts their bottom line, they’ll make up for it by forcing that financial burden onto their customers.

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      And if you see someone shoplift food/formula then no, the absolute fuck you didn’t.

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            If you would take the boot out of your mouth for literally one second, you would know that shrink is decreasing in almost all available metrics in the entire retail industry.

            Facts don’t care about your feelings, corpo dog.

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              Lol I was responding to a specific comment. Take a deep breath, baby boy.

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    Schroedinger’s retail theft. The answer is both that it’s up and that it’s overblown.

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    We wouldn’t have retail theft if the 1% paid their taxes and shared the wealth they stole from everyone else.

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    If you overvalue possessions, People begin to steal.

    Tao Te Ching, ch3

    this has been known for quite a while

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    It’s just that the supply chain excuse for jacking up prices is going away, so they need another BS excuse.

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    In my local community I have noticed a strong uptick, talking to store staff. But with wage insecurity and high food prices, “steal or watch your kid starve” isn’t really a decision. And yes, higher ticket items are being stolen, which some people are pointing at like there’s a difference: if the punishment is the same, why not steal the prime rib?

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    There have been lots of stores that claim to close locations due to looting when it’s the not the case. There is a lot of opportunistic bs happening with stores these days from price gouging to straight up shutting down certain areas for things like unionizing