Since then, Yvette’s pulled the same “trick” four times, although she insists she doesn’t see herself as a shoplifter and is “a goody goody” by nature: “I earn a reasonable amount in my senior position, drive an SUV, and live in a desirable postcode. Before my divorce, our girls attended private school.”
This kind of ÜberKarens are the reason we can’t get nice stuff. Actions of people like her will be used to crack down on people that literally can’t afford basic needs and to reduce the privacy of everyone else, while making the service shittier at the same time.
And she has the gall of calling her self a “goody goody”. Bullshit, no one so self entitled is a nice person.
Honestly I don’t even really care that much that she’s shoplifting, I find it hard to sympathize with a multi-billion-dollar company losing a small fraction of their profits.
But then she insists that she’s not actually a shoplifter, and brags about her income and how she’s a great person as if she’s trying to separate herself from “the bad shoplifters”, which gives me the same vibes as the article “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion”.
The multi billion dollar company loses nothing. If shoplifting increases they’ll just raise the prices for the rest of us.
prices will be raised regardless. record profits? raise prices. record growth? raise prices. cost of production goes down? raise prices.
I don’t get her reasoning either. “I consider myself a goody goody because I’m an upper class asshole”
“I’m rich therefore right” is a very seductive viewpoint
“It’s not a crime when we do it.” Meanwhile I guarantee you this person has turned their nose up at lower class people shopping in the same stores like they could only be there to steal shit.
No way she’s upper class. Upper middle at best and that’s pushing it.
Yeah, bitch decided to commit crime 5 times, boast about her career and wealth while pretend that is the feature of good people, then “teach” others how to commit the same crime. Bitch have no shame nor dignity. Makes me wonder what sort of white collar crime she also committed.
“I’m actually a really good person, I just commit crimes for fun, so it’s okay.”
People who don’t accept the consequences of their actions are the worst.
However, what if Yvette is not a real person and this is meant to stir up drama targeted at the middle class?
I doubt a real person.
Articles this inflammatory in nature generally are highly fabricated. A notable example is the Ken Waks “I quit Google in two separate occasions because I’m that brilliant.”
Agreed. If she’s not paying, everyone else is
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The boot you feel is the biological reality that we all need to eat (and more than just eat), and almost all of us need someone else to grow/raise/ sometimes prepare that food (and more than just food) for us. Supermarkets operate on extremely thin margins, and so do most farms, and so too most food factories. Most of them would go out of business if they cut prices by 5%.
People stealing from supermarkets cost the other shoppers around them, either through raised prices, or closed stores, if it’s bad enough. This is a major reason for the “food desert” phenomena, and why wealthy areas typically have cheaper groceries.
This Karen is an asshole, but so are the supermarkets who collude on prices and collectively steal from everyone else just because they can.
so are the supermarkets who collude on prices and collectively steal from everyone else
I hear you suggesting that makes it okay.
If so, how much theft are you cool with subsidizing?
Did they change their comment or something because no part of what they say is claiming to be ok with this? Perhaps I’m reading it wrong
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I think Corsican just got confused, but I suppose they could be using a strawman argument.
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They did not change it, there is no edit icon present on their comment
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I immediately think less of anyone who doesn’t know the difference between a noun and an adjective.
Calling someone ‘a’ Karen is using the word as an adjective.
Calling someone ‘Karen’ is using it as a proper noun.
I’m guessing you just looked at the upvoted comment that said it’s not an adjective and assumed it was correct.
For shame.
This is a person This is a human This is an individual
Are all of those adjectives? lol
My brother in christ you need to retake primary school English and learn what nouns are
In this context, ‘This’ is the adjective, as it describes the amount of Karens there are in this sentence. Karen is indeed the noun in this situation.
An example of using ‘Karen’ as an adjective would be: ‘did you how so-and-so went completely Karen on that clerk?’
You visualize how so-and-so acted in a particular way towards the clerk. The adjective to describe the behavior was ‘Karen’.
Hope that clears things up.
If I call you a Muppet does that make Muppet an adjective?
On the internet anyone and everyone is always right.
Can almost hear that fucking haircut through this
It’s not an adjective, it’s pejorative, Karen.
I worked for a major UK supermarket chain a few years ago - at a store big enough to have its own car park, but small enough that it had a small “garden centre” which was about 10m X 25m tacked on to the side of the store.
I was on the way back in after helping some elderly couple load their car up, when some dude says “can you give me a hand with these bags of soil?”, and I’m like “yeah no worries” and yeeted about nine or ten bags of soil into the back of his car.
I wander back in and the checkout supervisor was like “did he pay for those bags?” and I’m like “I’ve no idea mate” - turns out no, no he hadn’t.
It was a separate question to “did I care?” where the answer would have equally been something they didn’t want to hear.
When I was in HS I worked at a grocery store. One time we had a senior citizen come in and ask me for some bags. He then proceeded to go through the store and bag his groceries and then tried to walk out without paying.
Reminds me of an old “hidden camera” stunt. A set of people dressed in work clothes enter a furniture shop, and start taking down and carting out a living room. Then they come back and take a bedroom and a kitchen, too. Asked by the staff, the “boss” of the crew (the guy with the clipboard) just replied that they were doing what they were told to. Staff even helped them by holding the door open when they moved stuff out.
I’d imagine because the people tasked with enforcing it are also middle class. I’m sure as shit not paid enough to intervene.
Good. The problem falls at the hands of the companies making billions of dollars of excess profits, not on the individuals saving a tens or hundreds of dollars.
“Rather than artificial intelligence, we’re going for actual intelligence.” Does this guy think his customers are robots or that a standard PC with a barcode scanner is considered AI?
And this is why we’re treated like criminals every time we leave grocery stores here. Everywhere has heavily kitted up security (though I don’t believe armed) that stops you every time you try to leave.
Grocery shopping is a stressful occasion now
Where do you live?
West coast of the US. Their default mode is to treat everyone like everything in their cart is stolen
I live in California and have never experienced this. Maybe it’s just my white privilege?
Kazakhstan
Lick that boot.
Say that catchphrase
I’d let them, too. These prices are more criminal than her walking out with a trolley.
Waste of time, Karen. A £150 trolley is only about a third full you dipshit
… and another thing where I was apparently a trendsetter
