• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    353·
    6 hours ago

    We do steal every time. Somewhat around the amount everything went more expensive. Not because we need to, but out of principle. Mostly around 20% of what we buy. We are old and don’t look stereotypical enough, so we never get controlled.

    They rob us, we rob back. It’s only fair. And yes, we know it’s not the shops that rob us, but the manufacturers. But we can’t rob a factory.

    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.spaceEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Are you Uncle Leo?
      On a tangent, I just found out that Len Lesser was not only quite handsome in his younger years, he was also an extra in one of my favorite movies, the original “Papillon.”

    • python@lemmy.world
      52·
      4 hours ago

      Samesies! My partner isn’t vegan, so whenever I’m buying food for him, I just so happen to pull it a bit too quick over the self-checkout scanner so I guess it doesn’t scan, oops 🥺

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
        9·
        3 hours ago

        They beep so fucking loud here, this would not fly well with a cashier (or can) that watches well 😁

        But we came up with different ways to do it over time. And yes, self checkout mostly, but we also do it at register if we have to. The most brazen one was a whole fucking door we drove by the cashier while my wife distracted him with questions and her charme 😁

        We should not be proud of that, but we are. We probably wouldn’t even have noticed the price hikes. But I absolutely despise that they force you to pay more for things you can’t boycott. I can just not buy a car, but I can’t not buy food to protest. Fucking greed.

  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
    102·
    6 hours ago

    Much more sustainable to shoplift a little bit at once. Steal like 1 item when you buy 10, make it something small. Oops, it just slid under something in your bag. Don’t make it the most expensive item of your shop.

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      1 hour ago

      Also don’t do it AT the register. Those cameras are much closer and better than the cameras pointing down the aisles. Sure, you can say you made a mistake, voiding the ‘intent’ of the crime, but you’re much more likely to get caught and banned.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      I’m not saying this is moral or anything, but if you buy something expensive, then you could theoretically go back to the store with the receipt, pick another of that thing from the store, and go to the register and tell them you want to return it.

      I have been homeless. You do what you need to survive.

        • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          29 minutes ago

          That’s my reasoning too. In fact, I wouldn’t care if a giant chain would go under because I stole bread and sausages, I am not going to just lie down and die because society says so.

          I literally got caught doing that one time. I was in a really bad spot. I never stole for money or to resell, or for value like, I always went for food I was actually going to eat, and I even avoided the pricier brands because I didn’t want to be an asshole- I just wanted to survive, you know.

          I grabbed a few smoked dried sausages and some bread, and went outside and ate them. Two plain clothes cops came up to me, “Where’d you get that?”, I was like, “This is my lunch”, and they said, “So, you didn’t nick that from the store right now?”, and I sat there silent for a moment and said, “Well… I’m not saying I did, but if I did say I nicked it from the store right now, what would theoretically happen to me?”, and the guy looked at me and the meager meal I had scrounged and said “let’s go”.

          We went back into the store, and he went up to the cash register, and paid for my meal out of his own pocket. Then he motioned for us to leave, and then, as if he caught himself remembering that he needed to “do” something, he looked at the cashiers and then back at me and yelled at me- “AND DON’T DO IT AGAIN!”. But we were all good.

          Best cop interaction of my life. If anything, I have never felt worse about stealing, because his pity really hit home to me how bad shape I was really in that time…