Remember folks, if you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t.
I work for coles and I always give them a nod of approval then walk off like nothing happend when I see people stealing, fuck coles, they profited over a billion dollars last year off of ripping of customers and workers.
People taking fruit, cereal, milk… sure. But taking premium steaks, beer/wine/spirits, or anything else they can resell - no, that’s just theft.
I feel like you assume they’re reselling for a business. They could be buying baby shoes, or a gift for that nephew for his birthday, to make him forget how bad life is.
No, most people who steal steaks are taking them to the pub and selling them for drugs or similar. Huge problem in the UK at least.
If you want baby shoes you steal baby shoes.
Theft from billion dollar companies is a cool thing to do 😎
I understand your point…but at the same time depending on the shop/company owing the store, if they make millions and pay shitty wages or whatever bad, fuck then
No, they'll sell it cheaper than the store
That doesn't make it not theft
True, but if it ain't a mom and pop sized shop then it ain't my business. Go on down the road to the store that came in underpriced in order to drive out ma and pa so they could raise prices once those stores are out of business.
idk for you but in my area the "ma and pa" stores are all like 2x the price of the big names because they all have a weird gimmick like "all we sell is gluten free"
I've seen a lot of those and tend not to go there. Good luck to them, but I hate the gimmicks.
I visit the farmer's market pretty often where it's families selling things they grew or made. I like the tomatoes there and I get to buy better meat that isn't factory farmed. There's a regular independent grocery store where my parents live. The prices are a little higher but the produce tends to be better (mostly fresh and local) and there's actually a butcher in the meat department. Those kinds of places are dying.
We're all stolen from every day. The difference is that we're told that it's OK when it happens to us but that it's wrong when it happens to the company stealing from us.
HEY EVERYONE LOOK ITS THE SURVEILLANCE STATE THAT CAPITALISM SAID SOCIALISM WOULD CAUSE
That would be communism. Socialism is (partially) at work in European countries where we have captialism at the base, but using that to feed socialist programs.
Yeah, they've been tearing a lot of it down lately, but still
You think the fascists care about the difference between communism and socialism?
Shoplifting isn't happening because of capitalism.
It's happening because the local government won't prosecute the people that do shoplift
Bad news, bro: shoplifting is happening because of capitalism. Period. There's lots of aspects of capitalism that lead to this result but small minds are unable to grasp them. I am not gonna list them all here. Others are welcome to offer some of them if they like.
Are you suggesting that nobody ever stole anything from a store in a socialist/communist country?
Are you trying to extrapolate to an entirely unrelated concept from the subject?
It's the obvious followup to your statement "shoplifting is happening because of capitalism. Period." You were very clear and I think my question is very clear.
Your logic is right, but what he's meaning is that capitalism exacerbates poverty. When homes, food, healthcare become commodities the people that can't afford the new norm HAVE to do what they can to survive.
Yes, some-to-most shoplifters may be shoplifting for less than survival reasons, but in the same way many would argue that capital punishment risks the many at the expense of a few, villifying and prosecuting shoplifters risks the legitimate survival of a lot of people.
Every time capitalism does stupid shit to drive up the cost of living and spread the wealth gap wider, the people respend with acts of desparation. Capitalism drove rents astronomically high. Capitalism drove the cost of housing astronomically high. Capitalism kept wages stagnant for decades while exponentially increasing executive pay. Capitalism increased the price of petroleum. Capitalism made health care unobtainable. Capitalism saturated the airwaves with radical fascist talk shows and hatemongering. Capitalism talked people into giving money to megachurches instead of paying their bills.
Socialism did none of these things. Capitalism did. Homelessness and ahoplifting is happening in increasing rates in capitalist countries.
Don't like the increasing surveillance but this seems like a pro worker move actually. You don't have to turn them on to be a snitch, you just have to turn them on if you're being harassed. I got fired after being harassed by a customer and my employer took their side. If I had footage of it and audio then things might have been different
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The supermarket recently announced a $1.1 billion annual profit, but it also reported a spike in shoplifting and attacks directed at staff.
Theft is costing Australian grocery giants hundreds of millions of dollars annually, with Coles reporting a 20 per cent jump in stock loss.
"The use of these cameras has seen a substantial reduction in the amount of abuse and physical incidents our teams have faced," a Woolworths spokesperson said.
Retail theft is up across the board, driven by the rising cost of living, according to the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees' Association.
Mr Peak says while the association welcomes the use of cameras, it believes they should only be used for deterring or filming threats towards staff, rather than "asset protection" for supermarkets.
"We don't want any suggestion that workers are some kind of mobile security camera – that's where we can absolutely see this actually [causing] violence and abuse."
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I’m 99% sure we’re gonna start seeing an uptick in employees “accidentally” obscuring and/or destroying these body cams
The cameras aren't on at all times. Employees are supposed to turn on the cameras to record abusive behavior by scumbags because the company found that people who were stealing were also abusive towards staff in 1 in 4 incidents. It's so employees have a record of the interaction. This also means when the thieving piece of shit makes fake complaints its even easier to ignore because the employee has proof.
Having said all that, if you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.
Most people are able to get assistance with food which is why most people don't actually steal food they steal stuff to sell to buy drugs.
They shouldn't have to switch on the cameras - there should be signage posted at the entrances explaining body camera filming is taking place and that by entering the establishment the customer agrees to being filmed.
There is no reason for the employee to have to on/off the device - which may lead to further confrontation.
Imagine I sell a product that everyone needs to buy in order to live, but I'm a massive creep and like to take photos of people without their consent. But I put a sign up so now it's ok. Cool and normal.
Or you know, maybe just don't profiteer during inflation.
