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Edit : Changed link to non AMP one.

Edit2 : Apparently I HAVE to use the original shitty title from the article.

Grocery theft is on the rise but we won't tax the rich or bring back down the prices, we will jail those in need instead.

Money is better spent in the police forces anyway /s

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

@[email protected] Please keep the original title of the article when posting, and add commentary in the comments

Retailers, workers in northeastern Ontario deal with more theft in their stores

You can edit your post on Lemmy to change the title

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Note the actual figures in the article; shoplifting has only just risen to match or slightly exceed pre pandemic levels. This is a manufactured narrative. There is no pandemic of shoplifting happening.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Shoplifting back to prepandemic levels doesn't have the same ring.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you fucking didn't.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I work at a grocery store. I may sometimes talk about the weakness of the locking wheels out loud to coworkers where customers can hear

Did you know it's only the front left wheel that locks at our super store? So if you tilt the cart to the right, or put your foot on the back part to get the front to tip up, you can wheel it out easily?

Isn't it fascinating?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean locking wheels?
Is that a US thing I'm too North of the wall to understand?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We have it here too. Loblaws sometimes has shopping carts that lock their wheel if they travel too far from the property. It's an anti-shopping cart theft thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Uh, thanks.
I've never seen or heard of those before around here. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to order the French model?

Notre expensive carts to serve as deterrent against theft...
New strategy: steal the carts, extract and sell the electronics, scrap metal the rest.

I didn't think I'd be looting Descartes before the doors.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Hey man, I'm being asked to act as a cashier with no pay and with no training. If I accidentally punch in the code for peanuts when I'm buying macadamia nuts, or accidentally forget to scan my items, I don't see how that's my fault.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

The real crime is the robbery of consumers by these grocery stores.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

  • Anatole France
[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't even consider it all intent to steal. Our Walmart is nothing but self checkouts and they put the oldest slowest dude at there only checkout. My friend walked out without scanning the cat food at the bottom of her cart and we didn't realize until the parking lot. No one has training so you can't expect 100% success.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago
[–] cheese_greater 8 points 10 months ago

Helping == !(Helping)

[–] UltraMagnus0001 7 points 10 months ago

Also hire cashier and floor employees.

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