“We know many offenders are targeting premium cuts of meat, health and beauty products and alcohol and we know the biggest problem is repeat offending,” he said.

I know some people are struggling, but someone doing this is likely doing it to resell the items. It's not like they're stealing bread.

[–] Mojojojo1993 17 points 1 year ago

Oh there's always a mix of reasons. Nothing is 100% but an increase in crimes is usually nearly correlated with financial hardship.

Plenty will be stealing to fund vices. That doesn't change.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Premium cuts maybe but in my experience, meat is honestly one of the first things you steal if you're poor and hungry.

Eating nothing but rice, ramen, flour/water, and $1 bread all the time makes you tired and anaemic, and it just sort of feels like stealing some mince or a steak is going to fix that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meat products are also reasonably easy to conceal, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. Must be a lot harder these days with all the cameras but still, they tend to be located in an area where shoppers do a lot of bending over and rummaging.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Why steal bread, and everything else for a sandwich, when you can steal one high value item, sell it for cash then go buy your bread?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hardly anyone steals from the grocery store to resell. People stealing at the grocery store are your neighbors. They're not happy about it. This is just something to make yourself feel better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh great, you again.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna go steal four steaks.