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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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Retailers, workers in northeastern Ontario deal with more theft in their stores
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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.
Shoplifting back to prepandemic levels doesn’t have the same ring.
If you see someone stealing groceries, no you fucking didn’t.
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?
What do you mean locking wheels?
Is that a US thing I’m too North of the wall to understand?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
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.
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.
The real crime is the robbery of consumers by these grocery stores.
“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
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.
Seriously, if they want to switch most of their workforce to unpaid, untrained cashiers, they’re going to get mistakes.
Also hire cashier and floor employees.
Helping == !(Helping)
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It’s amazing how far we’ve come.
Is there a list of which laws were just disobeying now, or not?
My sister, who ran a pet store for a while, would have benefited from this knowledge before rampant theft killed her dream.
That depends. Was your sister selling essential goods while more than doubling the price over a three year period while claiming they have to because of “supply chain” issues, while their parent company owns the entire supply chain?
*and were record profits posted for shareholders, so many economists analyzing the situation had to admit the price increases were just for profit?
I was in Yellowknife last week and milk was 4.58 cheaper then in Edmonton. All their stores seemed to be independent though.
I’m sorry for your sister, but if shoplifting alone, a reality all retail businesses deal with, to some level (which according to this very article, just came back to pre pandemic levels, so we aren’t talking about something new), was enough to kill her business… What kind of shit margins do pet stores run on? 🤨
And did she not have theft insurance?
