29 points

Hey hey hey, no snitching on people who take food. Corporations won’t starve, just because a starving person took some food from them.

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No snitching period. Why would you side with a massive corporation that steals from mentally disabled people and old people, decimated America as we knew it, destroying every local economy, and demanding prices so cheap from brands that they’ve made shittier products with slightly different labels to meet that demand? Fuck Walmart. If you rat someone out for stealing from Walmart, then you’re a brainwashed asshole.

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That feels like an eye for an eye logic. Shoplifting has a very real impact and incentives dystopian surveillance even more.

I don’t normally mention people stealing but that’s mostly because it is plain obvious as they are terrible at being inconspicuous. They only time I mentioned that I saw someone stealing is at a dollar general where there was a single employee.

Also if you do see someone stealing do not approach them or accuse them of stealing. That can go very badly and could lead to a serious escalation.

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Fun fact, dollar general has a habit of locking employees in the store and demanding they do work off the clock.

Dollar general has stolen now more from it’s own employees than anyone has ever stolen from dollar general. That’s before you get to the horrifically unethical shit they get up to that’s legal.

Fuck em.

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Oh on that case why don’t you just go and burn down the store with everyone inside. I’m sure that’s what they deserve.

Seriously though I don’t see how one justifies the other. Fighting fire with fire never goes well.

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104 points

I always liked the quote, “If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.”

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2 points

I’d rather them seek help with a local charity than to steal. I donate and occasionally volunteer. If you are in financial distress or you think you can not pay your rent please seek help. There are programs to support you.

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My community hasn’t had a good couple of years. It’s sad to say but it’s better just to assume it’s tough times for everyone… So I didn’t see a thing… especially when they cut another 20+ jobs and tell me to do the job they cut…

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7 points

I’ve always had much better much at the non self checkout with cashiers getting distracted or forgetting to scan certain things. Especially at home depot I got a free 80 dollar shower head because my puppy was in the cart

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You really should take it back and explain what happened. You really don’t want to to be on the persons of interest list.

Better yet, check your recipe before you leave to make sure everything rang up correctly.

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2 points

Reminds me of going to Walmart and getting a free 30 dollar bike basket. The register person assumed it was my ‘bag’ cause I had the other stuff I was buying inside of it and didn’t scan it, they just passed it to the other side and chucked my stuff in there.

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6 points

Just remember, keep it under 500$ (may vary depending on where you live)

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I’m curious if the system being confusing, annoying, and not notifying you if you made a mistake is enough of an excuse to get out of this. I know I’ve been really frustrated by self-checkout (and hence never use them if I have a choice, unless I’m checking out with like one item), and I’m a pretty intelligent and technologically advanced person. I can see plenty of accidents happening with people walking about without having paid for something. This could add up fairly quickly. Is it still illegal if it’s because of choices the store made?

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4 points

That’s total, not per trip. They can still add up all of your trips if they have the evidence.

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2 points

And they can and will wait til you pass whatever the local threshold is to nail you wth a felony.

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Just had a conversation with my buddy who does security and hes adamant the only reason prices are going up is because of theft. I asked what came first the jump in thefts or the price gouging to which his tuned swapped to “They gotta pay to get these locked shelves and they keep reducing security head count” which of course I had to explain that the one time purchase of the cabinet is immensely cheaper than head count so based off that the prices should actually be dropping by installing them.

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