Comment by kvuj
1 day ago
People like you are why we are living in an increasingly lower trust society, with for example having items behind locked door in shops.
Reminds me a bit of the shopping cart theory.
1 day ago
People like you are why we are living in an increasingly lower trust society, with for example having items behind locked door in shops.
Reminds me a bit of the shopping cart theory.
trust goes both ways. you can be cynical about people who take things without paying, i guess. i prefer to be cynical about the corporations who run and stock these grocery stores with substandard products at artificially inflated prices that benefit shareholders and disadvantage people who need to eat food to live.
Think about blaming the grocery store replacing workers with no one in particular before you blame some college pranksters.
Grocery stores in general consolidating, laying off workers, leaving them without pay/benefits, taking advantage of greedflation, etc., is a bigger drain on society.
Ah yes, let's blame some shadowy "big grocery" rather than point our fingers at individual bad actors.
Grocery is a big industry. What's shadowy about it?
Why deal with problem systems when we can punish someone we caught?
That is your thought process?
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Shadowy? Kroger's and Albertsons weren't allowed to merge due to anticompetitive practices, price hikes, etc. This was only a couple years ago & is out in the open. You can point all your fingers and toes at the boards of these companies if you need to.
All grocery stores are introducing self-checkout as a way to reduce staffing. It's not a shadowy conspiracy, it's a legitimate fact. Many customers would much rather check out with a person.
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I mean, it isn’t really a prank, it is just small scale stealing. It’s fine to not care about that sort of thing, or think it is morally defensible for people who can’t afford food to steal it. But there’s no punchline to make it a prank.
Corporations broke the social contract first.