Retailers and police forces tell the BBC that thieves are targeting chocolate and selling it on.
  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Cadbury? Really? That’s gone to shit these days. I wouldn’t even buy it from a shady looking drug addict in an alley!

    Now Lindt, on the other hand …

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    1·
    3 hours ago

    WF here sells bougie gourmet chocolate that is very expensive, but they steal the cheap stuff that isnt that good. also drug addicts are targeting things like ice cream mostly here.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Is this going to be like stores before claiming shoplifting to jack up prices when it was really poor planning? But also rofl about the video of the person dragging a whole shelf out the door.

      • M137@lemmy.world
        2·
        24 minutes ago

        So people who can’t afford stuff like chocolate just don’t get to have it?

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
        14·
        18 hours ago

        My line depends on if the entity being stolen from is also a capitalist one stealing wages from their workers as profit or locking up/poisoning the food in their dumpsters.

        Pretty easy rule to go by.

        • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
          8·
          12 hours ago

          And the food thing isn’t for liability purposes in the US like people believe. They’ve been protected from liability for donating closed to expired food federally since the 90s.

          I’d be shocked if Europe didn’t have the same protections.

      • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
        212·
        19 hours ago

        It’s dense empty calories. The kind of thing you need living below freezing

        There’s not exceptions to the rule. It’s not a judgement call, it’s likely survival going on and your job is to stay out of it

  • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
    35·
    20 hours ago

    He said a shelf of chocolate could be worth £500 and the group had spent £3m on security and other measures to prevent thefts.

    And how’s that working out for you? … Oh, so, you’re just passing the costs of both the theft AND the security along to consumers, and then declaring that as profit and keeping it in your own pockets? I see, I see. Interesting.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Yes. You go on the dark web, post a request for chocolate and wait for offers. When someone agrees to get it you transfer them half of the payment in crypto. They leave the chocolate behind the toilet tank at King’s Cross (western entrance toilet, 3rd stall from the right) and you send them the other half of crypt after picking it up. You can save up to half a crown, depending on the type of chocolate you’re getting.

    • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
      171·
      20 hours ago

      Can you hear these chocolate thieves talking to you, Tesco? Are the chocolate thieves in the room with us right now?

      • Rentlar
        10·
        19 hours ago

        If it’s not stolen from a store in the West Midlands region, you have to call it “sparkling cacao”.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
    181·
    19 hours ago

    I just don’t buy that there’s a market for bootleg chocolate…

    (opens coat) “Heyyyy, uh, can I interest you in a Hershey bar? Maybe some Twix?”

    • duffer @lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      18 hours ago

      There’s a massive market. I’ve been offered all sorts in a pub. Chocolate, Gillette razors, batteries, aftershave, meat. Usually carried in a large hodall, rather than a coat!

        • duffer @lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          35 minutes ago

          If I were making a list of things I’d never buy from some bloke at the pub, dodgy meat would be high up. My memory is hazy, but I think they were pork chops.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        3·
        9 hours ago

        I remember addicts coming through the hood to sell steaks, laundry detergent, anything to chase the proverbial dragon, rabbit, etc.

        It would be a huge ROI for society to actually address issues causing addiction and the ills that go with it, but it’s not fast, flashy, or serving the right agendas, unlike the illicit drug market, prison and military industrial complexes, and unlivable wages. And that’s why the illicit drug trade, unaffordable pregnancies, and human trafficking aren’t meaningfully addressed.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
    142·
    18 hours ago

    They genuinely can’t comprehend that people steal food because they’re hungry, everything is a mode of commerce to them.

  • Rentlar
    5·
    19 hours ago

    The next time you see a kid selling chocolate bars for a charity, if you buy them you could be funding a criminal enterprise 🤣.

    But in all seriousness who are the thieves selling the chocolate to?