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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech
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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2023
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Remember everyone. If you see someone shoplifting from Walmart, no you didn't.
As long as it's just "shoplifting". Where I'm at, people will come in on a bike with a trash bag, load it up, roll out, and go to the next town over and sell the stuff on the street in the ghetto.
Since you kids are so sheltered you don't believe anything like this happens, here it is on video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f8JLIWxxya4
Also https://www.ktvu.com/news/where-is-sfs-boosted-merchandise-being-fenced-police-say-check-your-local-flea-market
Tell your moms I said hi, suburb kids
What would even be wrong with someone doing that? 🤔
makes the shopping experience shittier for the rest of us (locked merchandise)
the syndicates fencing these goods use the money to support actual harmful crimes
the people doing the thieving often get violent themselves
raises prices and causes store closures
people don't want to work in shitty stores, so the workers they have do the bare minimum (again, worse shopping experience for the rest of us)
The bazaars where people sell the stolen goods also cause lots of problems.
NGL I genuinely prefer the bazaars and street markets over the big box stores.
I take your point with the thieves getting violent. The others, ehh. The big box stores really ought not to be there in the first place and be replaced with little specialized mom and pop joints owned by locals the way life used to be.
Okay so then we have mom and pops, who can't absorb the loss, getting their shit stolen. Don't see how that helps.
Then we could have this talk. Then we could debate the morality of it.
Until that time, stealing from Walmart will always be the ethical thing to do.
Oh for the love of
I've been taking to a literal child.
You've been talking to yourself, yes