FUCK ALL SHOPLIFTERS!!
People who defend shoplifting from stores. I had a minor debate with someone who was pridefully going on about how we should steal from stores to affect the profits of the CEO and “The Man”.
I had to inform them that stealing from stores won’t necessarily affect the payroll of the corporation. It will only harm the stores and the employees inside. Because each and every store is operating on a budget of their own and what they sell determines said budget.
So if groups of people decided to steal from that store, sapping up the budget and hurting sales, then it’s going to hurt the pay of the people working there. Making shoplifters look both like an asshole and a dumbass in one.
So there are a lot of reasons to be against stealing, but this isn’t one of them.
Wal-Mart and County-Wide Poverty https://aese.psu.edu/nercrd/economic-development/for-researchers/poverty-issues/big-boxes/wal-mart-and-poverty/article-wal-mart-and-county-wide-poverty
Corporate owned stores like this are the ones that people are talking about stealing from. The facts are, the wages that are paid by Walmart can’t possibly be less. Walmart enjoys https://businessmodelanalyst.com/is-walmart-profitable/ being the most highly profitable in the list mentioned.
If Walmart paid less, they couldn’t maintain their staffing levels. The workers would be even more highly impoverished, if they choose to stay.
Stealing is still not the answer.
Does that matter? In the context of sustained abuse of workers? Every dollar that is used for employees’ food stamps and other benefits is a dollar taken from tax payers.
The difference between a shoplifter and Wal-Mart is a matter of degrees, not morality.
Oh, I’d say it’s a matter of morality. No one in the Walton family is going to go hungry any time soon.
Yes it does matter. Thieves affect that too. Man, this is what I’m talking about, these idiots going out of their way falling over on eachother to defend shoplifting. Your arguments suck.
You are making moral conclusions, and making factual statements that are untrue or exaggerated.
How much do you think this affects prices? The higher operating costs and losses are absorbed across all of the products on the shelves. Do you think that’s noticable? Do you have any real idea of what the operating costs of a grocery store are?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2022/01/31/where-do-grocery-prices-come-from/
Prices being higher drives theft more than the other way around.
https://beta.cp24.com/news/2022/12/17/1_6199163.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocery-price-analysis-1.6774669
Show me some numbers. Until now it just seems like you made a snap judgement and have no real basis to your beliefs.
That’s a easy statement to make with a full belly and no worries about where your next meal is going to come from.
It’s an easy statement for me to make when I am responsible with my finances unlike most. You must be bitter about something, is it because you yourself, suck at financing so you’ve gotta steal? The fuck out of here.
Yikes, that’s a lot of assumptions you made about me from one sentence. Personally I’ve never had to steal, I grew up middle class and had the opportunity to build up savings to become financially independent, just like you apparently.
I just learned empathy while growing up, so I can understand that some people didn’t have the same opportunities I had, and now have to resort to stealing.
So you defend a corp taking advantage of poor people because poor people did it to themselves.
Despite the fact that there is empirical evidence that when a Walmart is opened in some towns, local businesses are priced out, wages are reduced in that town and money is funneled away to the corporation instead of being spent locally.
Poor people don’t want to be poor, the work available to them has shit pay. Should millions of people just move away from towns when a Walmart opens up? And where would they go? And how would they afford to go?