• Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Theft is a huge problem in some locations. Some people have no problem filling up a cart with whatever they need and walking out the door. Employees don’t get paid enough to get involved. Cops only show up afterwards. Even if they catch the culprit, there arent any repercussions.

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      4 hours ago

      And yet theft rates are the same as they have pretty much always been.

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        44 minutes ago

        They’ve gone up. And it’s easy to see why. We have a minimum wage that hasn’t been increased in decades and the current model of corporate efficiency is understaffing and union busting.

        A huge portion of the population is cash strapped with the only job opportunities being poverty wages.

        Desperate people commit crimes.

        https://youtu.be/HKtsdZs9LJo

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      5 hours ago

      With the increase in prices for everything from food to housing, and the greed of large corps being completely ignored by governments, I honestly don’t gaf about shoplifting food or clothing. If I see it happening I walk away.

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        5 hours ago

        Are you sure you saw anything? I certainly didn’t. Especially at large corporate retail stores.

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          3 hours ago

          True. I may have just been remembering back to when I was a kid living on the streets and stealing food to survive.