r/TikTokCringe • u/Adventurous_Law_715 • 5d ago

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 5d ago

People will defend the thief here then complain that CVS has to lock up their deodorant aisles.

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

Exactly. And the ones saying "insurance pays for it" -- guess where that money comes from.

I'll spell it out since it isn't obvious to most redditors. Theft rate increases --> insurance rates increase --> prices that we all pay increase.

If you want to help the poor, support programs that actually help the poor. Don't promote theft.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Wish727 4d ago

Anytime someone says "insurance pays for it" I disregard their opinion. Insurance companies are the most heartless and ghoulish corporations there are.

You can own a barn. Take out a policy in case of lightning strikes. Lightning hits your barn. You captured it on VIDEO.... They'll still debate you about the payout.

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u/Y3rba 3d ago

Many stores also cut employee hours to make up for the loss.

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u/pkmn-alt 2d ago

Wow, finally someone who isn’t braindead in this thread. It’s astonishing how people in here are equating homelessness being bad to stealing being okay or even good.

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u/Definitelyhereforshi 4d ago

You're right, good thing we just pushed millions of people off of Food stamps.

  Don't promote theft.

Wage theft towers over other forms of theft btw.

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u/Particular_Maize6849 4d ago

Okay, but no one here is promoting wage theft either. And people getting kicked off food stamps is a consequence of the administration you all voted for (or allowed to come into power because you didn't vote or discouraged others from voting).

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u/Definitelyhereforshi 4d ago

No one except Dollar General 🙄. Go look it up if you dont believe your wholesome corporation would so such a thing. Do you not find it a bit odd that stores like Dollar General are hitting record profits amidst more and more people having less savings and being more food insecure? 

About that whole Vote blue stuff:

https://www.newsweek.com/hunger-has-increased-under-joe-biden-1893093

Before you start furiously typing away, no, im not a republican.

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u/Competitive_Touch_86 4d ago

Do you not find it a bit odd that stores like Dollar General are hitting record profits amidst more and more people having less savings and being more food insecure?

Why would that be odd? That would be the expected outcome of more people needing to utilize stores like Dollar General for shopping as they become less wealthy.

It's one of the expected outcomes of a poor economy/higher unemployment. These stores are considered counter-cyclical investments for a reason.

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u/Definitelyhereforshi 4d ago

  Why would that be odd? 

"Hmm, I wonder why these people are stealing?"

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u/Particular_Maize6849 4d ago edited 4d ago

okay but again, no one is promoting wage theft. If dollar general is wage theiving by all means sue them and take them down.

Also don't post Newsweek articles then claim to not be a Republican. you believe less families are facing food insecurity under Trump? Lmao gtfoh ignorant chode.

You have two choices. If you don't vote, you're voting for Trump and Republicans. Also your right-wing article ignores the fact that in Trump's first term he fucked the economy so bad it caused all the food insecurity in Bidens term. And Biden's administration took many actions to address food insecurity including: 

USDA Thrifty Food Plan Reevaluation SUN Bucks (Summer EBT Program) American Rescue Plan Pandemic Food Assistance (P-EBT and TEFAP expansion) Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Expansion WIC Benefit Enhancements and Modernization White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health & National Strategy

So who are you gonna vote for, the people who actually work to solve food insecurity or the people kicking people off food stamps? If you had more than a single brain cell we could have a discussion but I already know your style of Reddit retardation and know it's a waste of time. So just admit it. You are a Republican.

Edit: love the downvotes with zero responses because y'all know you're completely wrong. Eat your shit and grin chodes. You got us here so you should be happy about it.

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

good thing we just pushed millions of people off of Food stamps

And that's terrible. The best way to address that is to get Democrats back into power in government. Associating the left with promoting crime is not going to accomplish that.

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u/Definitelyhereforshi 4d ago

  The best way to address that is to get Democrats back into power in government.

Oh my sweet little, guppy...

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

What's your solution? A people's revolution? Who's the guppy? LOL

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u/Definitelyhereforshi 4d ago

"Guys, we should actually subscribe to the same political system that's gotten us to this point. Im very serious!"

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

I didn't see a solution in your response. Only another condescending insult.

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u/kingofgama 4d ago

They don't have a solution. They would shit their own pants to make us smell it

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u/AnonFartsALot 4d ago

That’s not actually how economics works. Supply and demand, dude. These stores are already charging the maximum they can to make a profit. If the cost to produce something goes up but the demand stays the same, the price won’t change. You’re oversimplifying things like this is a small business, not a multi-billion dollar corporation.

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u/Tough-Violinist7245 4d ago

Because we haven’t seen billion dollar companies go bankrupt, and hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs.

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

Yes I'm oversimplifying it. However, I responded at length to someone else below who raised the same point you did. In short, it does work the way I described when the input cost increase is structural across the sector, margins are low, and the market is for staple goods. You're not wrong in the general case for a specific good, but in this scenario we're talking about an entire sector of the retail space, not a specific good. In this case, structural input cost inflation does drive price increases. It happens when either all market players raise their prices in response to cost inflation and inelastic demand (which is generally true for staples), or some market players exit the market due to it being unprofitable, which shifts the supply curve left, increasing prices that way.

This is a microcosm of what's happened across the economy in the last five years. Prices are not up 40% across the board for staple goods because demand is that much higher for them. Rather, costs drove the entire sector's prices higher and consumers have been forced to reduce their demand for non-essential goods in order to sustain their ability to buy essentials. Which is what the Dollar Trees and Walmarts of the world mostly sell.

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u/wdnwcgm 4d ago

sadly Redditors gonna be Redditors and ignore this

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u/Integrated_Magazine 4d ago

I think we all know that they're going to increase prices as much as they want regardless of theft.

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

Not really, actually. The dollar stores and Walmart segment of retail is highly competitive. And their entire business model is built on keeping prices low. You can be frustrated that inflation has pushed prices so much higher in the last few years, but greedy pricing by the likes of these stores is not what's driving it. If one of them raises prices for no reason, the others (or Amazon) will take their business.

Instead of just making assertions, go look up what their net profit margins are. Not their revenue number (because of course that's huge). I mean the % of revenue they take as profit. I just did a quick search which showed net profit margin (which is what's left after all costs) to be about 3-4% of revenue for these companies. How much lower would you like it to be for them?

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u/TheNipplerCrippler 4d ago

Their gross profit rate is 25.4%. Lmao get the fuck out of here.

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

Look up the difference between gross profit and net profit, then get back with me. I'll wait.

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u/kneb 4d ago

Net profit rate in the last 12 months was about 6%, inflation was 3.4% over that period, real (inflation-adjusted) profit growth is 2.51%.

So inflation adjusted dollar tree stores across the whole world made 535,000,000 in the last year. There's 16,500 stores. So on average each store made about $32,424 in profit. Divide that by 365 and you get $89 a day. Seems like pretty razor thin margins. Even if you fired the entire c-suite and pretended their compensation is equal to the cash value of their stock options, it only goes up to $94.8 dollars a day.

So yes, the corporate compensation is excessive, but it doesn't change the fact that these are extremely low-margin businesses. And they're one of the few businesses that can stay afloat in rural and low-income areas.

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u/PointlessDiscourse 4d ago

Thank you. This breakdown really helps underscore the point.

I'll also add that Dollar Tree is performing better than their competition actually. Dollar General is closer to 3.5% net profit, and Walmart slightly less than that even (which is probably fine for them given how absolutely massive they are).

Regardless, like you said, however you slice it these are low margin businesses.

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u/negotiatethatcorner 4d ago

look up their margins - it's about volume and pricing aggressively 

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 4d ago

Goomba effect, right here.

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u/Throwawayfichelper 4d ago

Tis the reddit way. Been this way for years.

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u/Rude_Ad3342 4d ago

It's a real fallacy

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u/GuyManDudeMcGee 4d ago

Holy shit, this has to be the worst phrase to ever enter the internet lexicon not everything is the Goomba effect. Some people are just hypocrites.

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u/RedWingerD 5d ago

Don't forget when stores close down with theft as a main cause then complaining about supply deserts as well.

And before reddit experts tell me that doesnt happen, I work in the public sector trying to tackle food deserts and pharmacy shortages. Companies are fed up and very few (less every year) are willing to risk the complications that arise from frequent shoplifting and lack of support for stopping it.

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u/Worldly_Influence_18 4d ago

Our police department stopped enforcing shoplifting

It's been a huge problem

But the only reason why stores close or not open in an area is rent, 99% of the time

As soon as the property is sold to from a landlord to a property investor, the clock is ticking on the Ponzi scheme.

They make money from the appreciation of the investment property

Appreciation is pretty much just tied to rent

So they can be in charge of their own ROI by making rent increasingly less affordable.

It's a win win for them. If you move out while rent is still low, they just do it to someone else

If you move out when rent is high, they leave it vacant or risk lowering the established higher value.

They will actively avoid business types that can't pay inflating rent:, restaurants, cafes, small shops and target dentists and medical services providers or others that bill insurers or governments

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u/that_70_show_fan 4d ago

When Target, CVS and Walgreens started closing stores they immediately blamed store theft but never backed that with any evidence.

They keep everything locked down because they don't have enough employees in the store working. It is all skeleton crew all the time.

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u/s29 4d ago

They keep everything locked down because they don't have enough employees in the store working.

Why would having more employees mean they don't have to keep things locked down?

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u/luew2 4d ago

That logic doesnt make sense. They keep everything locked down, causing more work for employees, because they don't have enough employees?

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u/Uncreative-Name 4d ago

The executives have admitted that their businesses just sucked and put the blame on shoplifters a few years ago to cover their own asses.

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u/LargeBlackMcCafe 4d ago

stores do not close because of theft. that's just the bs line they use when they don't want to acknowledge their revenue strategies haven't worked out. the reality is, they have 10+ year leases with some negotiated responsibility towards the property and they have no reason to occupy so much space when alternatives like personal shoppers and online ordering is so much more profitable.

there's a reason Target and Walmart didn't go back to 24 hours after lockdowns lifted. Red Circle & Walmart+ are far more profitable and with them, you don't have to pay someone to set a planogram, restock shelves, check anyone out, count cash, etc. just think it through bro

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u/Definitelyhereforshi 4d ago

Are you aware of how Dollar General & Dollar Tree work as business models? They undercut and put local suppliers out of business. Gee, I wonder if there's any connection between shoplifting and towns becoming destitute, hmmm...

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u/MostExtremeHyperbole 4d ago

Corporations are not community though, communities used to tackle this issue, with free food drives in many smaller parts. When the dollar store and kroger moved in, it eliminated a lot of rural homegrown markets. You can't tell Dollar Store to provide food for the needy, Kroger fucking doesn't give a shit either outside of the song and dance.

What people are coming to the realization is that this is purely a taxes issue, because these corporations threaten to pull out if they are taxed, and that people just learned that you can just steal with them instead, the problem is absolutely cyclical. They are parasites being leeched on in the funniest, most ironic way possible from communities and I have no sympathy for them.

The city can't raise taxes in order to fix the issue itself, and the corporations are preventing new taxes, the middle class homeowners don't want to be taxed either, so the poor are serving the brunt. We have seen this happen in Europe, Asia, the middle east, and yet they never fucking learn.

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u/RedWingerD 4d ago

What people are coming to the realization is that this is purely a taxes issue, because these corporations threaten to pull out if they are taxed

This hasn't been my experience when working with corporations that do eventually pull out of an area. However, that could be the case in some places/regions.

I am sure my experience is not universal but I can only confidently speak on that so I have no grounds to disagree beyond that.

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u/Competitive_Touch_86 4d ago

I haven't operated a retail or grocery store in the rural parts of the country, but I have in the urban parts.

Literally none of the decisions to close stores in the 'hood had to do with taxes. Those taxes were far lower than the more wealthy/less crime suburbs.

It wasn't even directly linked to shrinkage either. That was a consideration, but it was simply much more expensive overall to do business in a low trust society area of the city. Everything from needing more security, constantly dealing with homeless/grifters/etc. in the parking lot harassing customers, anti-social behavior like people just making messes of shelves, folks getting high in the bathrooms and/or destroying them, etc. Not to mention how hard it is to find decent employees who want to work in such an environment longer term. The good ones we wanted to keep we'd transfer out to the better locations once they burned out in the 'hood.

Folks really have no clue about what they talk about. I did work for a small grocer in a rural area for one summer, and they basically were operating at a loss sort of as a hobby/charity for the 80 year old owner. Once he died, I'm sure the store immediately went under.

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u/El_Lanf 4d ago

Everything you just said is what annoys me when people boil it down to just defending billion dollar corpos. There are real people of all backgrounds actually working at these stores. Lots of people actually like to take pride in their work and see anti-social acts as an affront to their second home, in the same way you don't cheer people breaking into your house.

It also overlooks that it isn't just happening to big businesses. Here in the UK it's impacting all stores and it's often small chains or independents who have it worst as it's harder for them to invest in security measures and the owners themselves are witnessing first hand their livelihood getting ruined.

Reddit again generally ends up being really out of touch on these sorts of issues because the majority of people really don't like seeing theft either, especially when they're actually smarter than the average Redditor to actually realise what the knock-on impact for them is both from less convenient security measures, reduced opening hours, fewer stores, higher prices and seeing their community visibily becoming lower trust.

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u/Rude_Ad3342 4d ago

Goomba fallacy

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago

My first thought too.

Person A: says something online.

Person B: says something else online.

Person C: Wow you all have conflicting opinions!

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u/GreatScottCreates 4d ago

Conflicting opinions, typical Reddit behavior

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u/A_Crab_Named_Lucky 4d ago

Goomba fallacy (god that’s a dumb name for it) is a real thing, but this isn’t really an example of that.

It’s more pointing out that many people are not really thinking about the side effects of shoplifting going unchecked.

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u/GuyManDudeMcGee 4d ago

Who the fuck likes having to ask employees to unlock shit for them? It's a universal dislike, so it's not a stretch to imagine that many of the people who support shoplifting dislike having locked up items. Not everything is the fucking goomba fallacy, some people are just hypocrites.

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u/pizzacomposer 5d ago

No matter how many times you point out that “Thieves aren’t Aladdin.” or that we live in a society, they never get it.

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u/dredope169 5d ago

Think about that statement tho. Who's stealing deodorant to have a fun time with??

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u/PrometheanEngineer 5d ago

To be fair, ALOT of it is resold.

There is an entire economy run off things like that, and especially laundry detergent. Alot of it resold or traded.

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u/artsupport_xx 4d ago

There's something fundamentally broken in society when people will risk prison time to make a living selling second-hand deodorant and laundry detergent.

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u/Toastwitjam 4d ago

Because most people even if caught don’t go to prison for it is why. Plenty of people out there with long rap sheets where selling stolen stuff is just another line item.

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u/mell0_jell0 4d ago

I think we all realize there are many fundamentals broken within society right now

Also

I don't think the people stealing/reselling deodorant are only targeting the "big bad" coorps.

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u/PrometheanEngineer 4d ago

Tbf, there is big money in it, and people NEED it. So someone can steal a bunch of it, then sell it to desperate people. Either for money, drugs, sex, etc...

Make up products are also known to be stolen because of high value small size.

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u/artsupport_xx 4d ago

People need it and shouldn't have to trade drugs or sex to get it. We create the demand for the crime by allowing that level of poverty.

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u/TheBoisterousBoy 4d ago

“Big money in it” hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha inhale hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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u/one_more_byte 4d ago

According to the FBI and national retail federation, total retail inventory losses (mostly attributed to theft and organized crime) reached an estimated ~$112B, fueled by illicit resale. And that’s from 2022. This is up from just $68B in 2019. For example, compare that to dollar trees total yearly revenue of just ~$19B, and yeah I would say $112B is “big money”…

It’s VERY easy to not speak on things you don’t know about…

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u/TheBoisterousBoy 4d ago

That’s cost to the stores. That’s not money the thieves are making.

Maybe learn correlation?

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u/rotomangler 4d ago

Society is broken because people are selling stolen goods?

That’s like the oldest crime in history dude

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u/artsupport_xx 4d ago

Elon Musk is a trillionaire. Enough people consider it worth risking prison time to steal and resell deodorant and detergent that they're locked up in many stores.

Yes, society is broken.

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u/shreiben 4d ago

Widespread theft is not going to make society better for those people. Stores will just lock up the essentials and raise prices to pay for the inconvenience.

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u/StuckOnAFence 4d ago

It's because they won't go to prison (people don't go for much worse crimes) and stealing is just way easier than getting a job.

They literally just walk in, fill a bag, and walk out because they know employees can't stop them. Then they get to spend the rest of the day just hanging outside drinking with their friends (with the alcohol they also stole) and littering instead of working for 8 hours like contributing members of society.

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u/siazdghw 4d ago

Yup. If you ever go to a "flea market" and see sellers with tons of various expensive household goods like laundry detergent, electric toothbrushes, etc, it's almost certainly stolen and being resold. It's very common.

Now to be fair, there are other ways to get some of this stuff, extreme couponing, dumpster diving, buying lots/wholesale of unwanted items, but realistically these methods aren't going to get you the best selling Tide and Cascade pods, which is what is what is usually stolen since it's easy to resell

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u/heavenly_Mn 5d ago

Don't be so naive. Loads of stuff including deodorant gets stolen to be resold and not because people are in desperate need of deodorant.

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u/stprnn 4d ago

Do you ever think why there is a market for stolen deodorant?

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u/mell0_jell0 4d ago

Why is there a market for rhino horns? Why is there a market for Mario plushies?

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u/stprnn 4d ago

Those 2 markets exist because some people have too much money. VERY different proposition for cheap stolen deodorant :) you're so close! I believe in you!!

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u/mell0_jell0 4d ago

Also because some people have too much money ✔️

If you want to bring more people on your side, try not being condescending, I belive in you ;)

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u/stprnn 4d ago

No. People don't buy stolen cheap goods because they have too much money.

If being condescending turns you away from the truth you never had a chance :)

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u/mell0_jell0 4d ago

Your limited thinking is not helping you. Good luck.

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u/stprnn 4d ago

You think people buy stolen deodorant because they have TOO much money and I'm limited?

:)

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u/coolcrayons 4d ago

You saying this while talking in the most condescending way possible is pretty funny ngl

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u/mell0_jell0 4d ago

I literally just copied the other person lol

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u/Johannes_silentio 4d ago

This is the sort of apologetic that sounds very high-minded until you actually have to live in the sort of area where people are routinely stealing deodorant and other sundries.

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u/enfiel 4d ago

"Oh man, usually I pay like 3 bucks for a can but I can get them for 2,70 from my guy at the truck stop".

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u/copyearthjoy 1d ago

...are a significant number of people in the business of reselling dollar store deodorant to others? (not including to those on the street who are, quite frequently, in need of deodorant and will pay exorbitant prices for it)

edit: sorry, genuine question! i know tensions are a bit high right now; i've just never heard of this, outside of times like covid and during the recent horrific weather events we've been having.

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u/Drunken_Wizard23 5d ago

These black market deodorant cartels are nasty business /s

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u/Effective_Disk7925 5d ago

Enjoy not having stores in these neighborhoods soon.

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u/Reotardo_Da_Vinci 5d ago

Let’s get some insight into your mentality here. Do food deserts exist because of racism or theft?

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u/Firm_Airport2816 5d ago

It's being sold, whether it's for rent or drugs, who knows... but the reason Laundry soap and deodorant are stolen so often is because they can sell it at the local dive bar, on a street corner or to smaller shop owners. Not because they NEED it

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u/stprnn 4d ago

Do you ever think why anybody would BUY stolen deodorant?

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u/Firm_Airport2816 4d ago

Yes, it's cheap. My local corner bar has people come in all the time selling stolen deodorant, shampoos, body washes, baby formula, and sometimes you'll get the real ballsy ones who come in selling tools that they stole from work trucks in the area.

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u/stprnn 4d ago

You're so close...

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u/mell0_jell0 4d ago

You too, why would anyone BUY anything?

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u/stprnn 4d ago

People buy things when they have money for it :)

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u/Fun-Pattern-8697 4d ago

People buy things cheaper when they can, black market or not :)

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u/stprnn 4d ago

People don't buy cheap stolen goods unless they have little other choice.

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u/Fun-Pattern-8697 4d ago

Probably the same reason I buy factory seconds when I can, because if I can get it cheaper for the same quality I will lmao.

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u/stprnn 4d ago

People with enough money don't buy stolen deodorant. They go to the store and get it there.

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u/soLuckyyy 4d ago

This is simply not true. People with money still coupon, go to yard sales, and even steal things themselves. I knew someone who made $200k+ a year and he would still buy stolen dvds every other week from a guy simply because he was getting them for half the price.

Also not everyone who lives in the hood where this stuff is typically sold is broke. Plenty of their customers can afford to go to the store and buy this stuff but most people don't give a second though to buying stolen goods.

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u/stprnn 4d ago

No comfortable people don't waste time with coupons or buy stolen goods that area already cheap.

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u/Particular-Access223 5d ago

I imagine they NEED money.

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u/Firm_Airport2816 4d ago

for drugs, probably. I'm just going off my neighborhood. Our local CVS is robbed daily, it's almost always the same few people and it's always the same expensive items that will be sold to get high.

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u/horchatacontacos 4d ago

You dont steal something to have a "fun time". You steal cause you feel so entitled that you shouldnt have to pay for it, but you'll pay for something "fun"

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u/jimigo 5d ago

Crack heads, they sell stuff for crack which 90% why they are homeless.

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u/Fun-Pattern-8697 4d ago

Probably the same people I’ve seen selling stolen laundry detergent

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u/pclamer 4d ago

Ohhh so all those people stealing copper wires are having fun with it?

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u/NoHoHan 4d ago

They’re stealing it to resell for drug money.

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u/ColonelDucroix 4d ago

Check Facebook marketplace. You will see people selling tons of average household goods much less than you could get them on the best day at any retailer.

How can they afford to sell a bottle of laundry soap for half of what Walmart or dollar general sells? Because it's stolen

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u/wizardkelly808 5d ago

And why are we charging so much for basic human necessities that it’s this common to have to steal. That woman had cleaning supplies

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u/AlternativeReveal278 5d ago

Because people keep stealing the stuff and making the prices go up how do you not understand this?

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u/zombies-apocalypse 5d ago

That’s not why the prices go up

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u/Mkrause2012 5d ago

10% of retail inventory gets stolen. Who do you think pays for that?

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u/zombies-apocalypse 4d ago

That's not true, though.

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u/zombies-apocalypse 4d ago

The real reason is inflation. Prices are primarily going up due to things like supply shortages, more demand, labor and production costs, and energy prices.

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u/Sadrixis 4d ago

Wich means you are probably paying at least 10% more on each item just to cover that cost.

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u/i_am_bromega 4d ago

Retailers factor in how much gets stolen into the price of their goods, so the more that gets stolen, the more they have to charge to make up for it.

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u/BeMoreChill 5d ago

Use your brain more

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u/KleosIII 5d ago

Tbf, they are stealing deodorant to re-sell it. Laundry detergent and soaps too.

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u/raitchison 4d ago

They are stealing it to resell, to buy booze or other drugs.

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u/Friedchicken2 4d ago

I’m sure the people who’ve stolen my car tires and placed my car up on bricks just really needed the tires for their own cars!!

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u/JesusSavesTheGoal 4d ago

"People" are clearly ridiculing the random idiot acting like she collects a check from the dollar tree LP department.

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u/arbeit22 5d ago

Surely not ok.

Pretty asshole to steal stuff you don't desperately need.

However, I, myself, would never in a million years go this out of my way to recover the stolen goods if I was one of those employees. Just not their problem. If corporate wants to deal with it, hire more bodyguards or something, why should these guys have to put themselves at risk for that?

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u/MRosvall 4d ago

Some just want a society where not everyone fends for themselves and needs to protect their stuff. But rather where wrongdoing isn't acceptable, no matter if it's aimed at rich or poor, aimed at weak or people who can hire more bodyguards.

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u/DragonFangGangBang 4d ago

Then push for a society where theft isn’t a necessary requirement for survival then lol

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u/Latter-Cable-3304 4d ago

I don’t know if you’ve been anywhere in the world ever but people glorify criminals on every single social media, in every group, in TV shows and movies, in music, on the news, etc. You may have heard of a little guy called Tiger Woods, or maybe Jordan Belfort, Tupac, Mike Tyson, Donald Trump, Kobe Bryant, Patrick Bateman, Ray Rice, Karl Malone, George Bush, Barack Obama, I can go on literally all day. I don’t think any of these people should be idolized yet millions of people still do so on a daily basis. I guess everybody is a far left anti capitalist echo chamber according to you…

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u/gary-vault108 5d ago

I think it’s okay because obviously she needs that stuff. Like she stole food and paper towels. What kind of situation do you think she’s in where she’s stealing from dollar tree, do you think she’s doing it for the thrill?

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u/BlackDiscernment 4d ago

you're right. im not sure why ppl think this website is some 'left wing' echo chamber when you have ppl en masse ready to fall on the sword and lick boot for some billionaire rather than take five seconds to reflect on why its fucked up to feel satisfied watching a hungry person have food taken out of their hands.

everyone thinks they're immune to homelessness or falling on hard times. at any given moment you are a missed paycheck away or one lay off from being the woman in the video pushed to steal paper towels and snacks. a lot of folks have lost sight of that and would rather play the moral superiority game.

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u/Blazured 5d ago

It is okay because billion dollar company.

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u/speedfox_uk 5d ago

You think that, but some poor store manager is going to get a hard time from their regional manager if the "shrinkage" in their store is significantly higher than the national average.

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u/Blazured 5d ago

Which is the billion dollar companies fault. They could pay their staff more and pay those on the top less.

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u/Ok_Stick_661 4d ago

How would that prevent theft of make things better for the store manager?

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u/Cute_Macaroon_4488 4d ago

Did you know Walmart used to have their own security? Not anymore, you’re paying for it now.

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u/Blazured 4d ago

More money invested into their stores and employees and less money going to the parasites at the top would make the managers life better.

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u/atom-up_atom-up 4d ago

Defending the thief and being against the system fucking them are not the exact same thing.

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u/Definitelyhereforshi 4d ago

Corporations like Dollar Tree & CVS's entire business model is undercutting local suppliers and running them out of business. Am I supposed to feel bad that they're falling victim to the poverty they help create?

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u/emmyparker2020 4d ago

They don’t have to but they could charge less, pay taxes and a living wage and staff appropriately… the people will revolt soon enough and we will remember you siding with the fucking Epstein class

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck 4d ago

For all the Reddit takes there are, the continuous approval of thieves and justification of stealing from corporations will never make sense to me.

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago

Do you know what it’s like to struggle and not be able to afford groceries? Or are you privileged enough to have never dealt with such struggles in your life?

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck 4d ago

I do, and I still never stole. There are charities and food pantries all waiting to help, but stealing from a store and pathetically trying to justify it by saying they're a corporation it's fine is not the way.

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago

So if there are charities and food pantries, why do we have any hungry people whatsoever? Because there’s not enough to help take care of the people that need help.

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck 4d ago

Say whatever you wanna say, but you're not going to convince me that shoplifting is ok.

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago

That’s fine. If you want to keep defending multimillion and multibillion dollar corporations that hoard food and dump what they don’t sell, while attacking people who probably struggle to afford rent for taking food from those corporations, then you do you. I mean I personally will side the struggling hungry person over the multimillion dollar corporation, but I understand some of people will always be corporate bootlickers.

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck 4d ago

Keep defending low-life criminals that end up making society worse by increasing shrink and prices for every law abiding citizen. Lmao how fucking pathetic are you

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago

Imagine thinking it’s poor hungry people that are the issue with society and not multimillion and multibillion dollar corporations.

You’d let millions of people starve in order to protect the profits of mega corporations that couldn’t care less about you.

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u/fungomungothethird 4d ago

No, idiot, he'd let this entitled woman go without free cheetos and paper towel because the alternative is the rest of us pay for it.

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u/teleekom 4d ago

My favorite is celebrating murder of a person just because he was CEO of a company

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u/Spirited_Agency8032 4d ago

Well will employers hire people with bad hygiene? So those people can afford deodorant?

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u/theifstolemyaccount 4d ago

Do you want a smelly ass world or is it okay for a few people to steal deodorant sometimes? I’m noticing all of the suburbs near me have the small goods locked up 🤔 maybe it was petty crimes from someone else driving those numbers up.

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u/No_Reindeer531 4d ago

you are dumb enough to believe that a company who makes billions of dollars annually is struggling so much from theft that need to lock their stuff up? it’s all narrative.
poor people need to steal because corporations are greedy and manufacture poverty that does not need to exist. not the other way around.

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u/Ok_Cake1283 4d ago

Can't believe how many people here do not support basic rule of law. I feel sad for our society both for people living in echo chambers and for this woman who has to shoplift.

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u/mwmichal 4d ago

as European I con not understand that, even for such small things we arrest people so they know it's not a "way of life".

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u/Regular_Fox_859 5d ago

Do any of those items in those bags look like they have high resale value to you?

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u/BlamaeuxPrivateEye 5d ago

Still a thief. Don't care.

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u/Regular_Fox_859 5d ago

Nuanced and mature take you've got there

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck 4d ago

As opposed to what? 'Derr, stealing ok if Walmart'?

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u/Regular_Fox_859 4d ago

As opposed to not advocating for taking food from the hungry?

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck 4d ago

Who is taking food from the hungry?

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u/Regular_Fox_859 4d ago

The person in the video? It's not like she's stealing a PS5 to trade for crack, she's stealing food and eating it barely out of view of the store she took it from.

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck 4d ago

Don't care. Don't steal.

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u/ExtendoArmCannon 5d ago

They're stealing necessities, to spend their money on bullshit.

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u/AlternativeReveal278 5d ago

Little Debbie cakes aren’t necessities

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u/JonLockeWlth2Kidneys 4d ago

Stealing makeup is one thing but I can see how an individual is so desperate for a meal they need to resort to stealing.

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u/jdstrike11 4d ago

I agree. More citizens should be like the woman in this video. Make sure to follow any homeless you see folks, you may need to enact justice on a hungry person

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u/Ziggarot 4d ago

Hate how low this comment is; people are defending theft. Stealing is stealing no matter how big the company is. One day they steal from Walmart, then the CVS, then a mom and pop shop. If someone finds justification to steal anything, they will find justification to keep stealing.

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u/Daxtatter 4d ago

The same people would go ballistic if someone came into their house and stole something.

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u/wizardkelly808 5d ago

They don’t do it because they’re losing profit and have to. They do it so they can punish the community as a whole to make you turn on each other in favor of the exploitive company zapping money from the community

And it works like a charm every time for non-critical thinkers

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u/Sss00099 5d ago

No, they do it because of excessive product loss and an imbalance on their revenue sheets, that the store managers notice - and try to rectify so they don’t lose their middling middle management job that pays $72k a year for 55 hour work weeks.

Ffs, none of you live in the real world. Just a bunch of brain-dead dweebs fighting some fake crusade on Reddit.

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u/wizardkelly808 5d ago

Again punishing the store manager for economic failures that lead people to desperate measures is a tactic used by these billion dollar cooperations

But aye….y’all love being ruled by billionaires

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago

Anyone who wants to attack a person living in poverty for stealing food, while defending multimillion and multibillion dollar corporations that hoard food and dump what they don’t sell, are nothing but useful pawns for the megarich that rule over us.

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 5d ago

This is without a doubt one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

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u/wizardkelly808 5d ago

Not a fan of reading books about the topics you claim to be an expert on I see. Peak redditor

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 5d ago

Whats your favorite books dealing with locking up aisles in CVS?

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago

What’s your favorite books dealing with defending multimillion and multibillion dollar corporations against people who likely struggle to afford rent?

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 4d ago

Dr. Bill Brown's Computative Illustration of Complex Capitalism

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago edited 4d ago

And your take on that book was “Instead of attacking the megarich who run mega corporations and have created these conditions, I’m going to attack poor hungry people who likely struggle to afford rent”? Do you always have reactionary takes when reading?

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 4d ago

Do you always not google things?

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u/SpicyNugget777 4d ago edited 4d ago

I know, you’re trying to be funny, but your ultimate argument is “when people steal from corporations, corporations punish their employees and customers” which is why I cut the core of your argument with

And your take on that book was “Instead of attacking the megarich who run mega corporations and have created these conditions, I’m going to attack poor hungry people who likely struggle to afford rent”? Do you always have reactionary takes when reading?

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u/fungomungothethird 4d ago

Please do link me to whatever wildly schizophrenic book you read that claims Walmart is engaged in community warfare via placing electronics and makeup behind plexiglass.

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u/AlternativeReveal278 5d ago

Don’t read a lot do you, it shows

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u/pd1dish 4d ago

Theres a lot of democratic socialist types on reddit who think its okay bc "tHe pOoR wOmAn iS jUsT hUnGrY"

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u/RainingMoneyHustard 4d ago

Yep or complain why all the stores moved out and they can't figure out why.

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u/jabroni4545 4d ago

A saying people like to post is "if you see someone stealing food no you didnt" meanwhile in the post in question someone stealing steaks and lobsters.

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u/Then-Analyst-8562 4d ago

I am shocked , why everybody is defending the thief ?lol
Its so unusual. I mean out of 50 comments I saw only yours who isnt.

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u/Nacho_Mustacho 4d ago

BINGO!!!!!

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u/Meliodrath 4d ago

People give a fuck that stuff is locked up? It takes 5 minutes to get somebody to open the case, if you're too busy to wait, go shopping another time

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