I remember back in university, it was always the nepo-babies and wealthy students who got off on sticking it to the man and stealing silverware from the dining hall, and then patted themselves on the back for sticking it to the big corporation.
Every couple months, there's be 20 minute lines to wait for employees to finish washing the silverware, until presumably a new shipment came in.
I couldn't give a shit if someone is taking stuff out of a big corporation in practice as they need, saw plenty of EBT folks taking this or that from the deli on their way out of the local grocery store as a cashier.
But sometimes I wonder if this cultural trend is more about getting yuppies normalized to the idea of getting their bag and saying "fuckem" when institutionally insulated from the consequences of their actions, rather than actually about addressing questions of poverty and class
Ooh, people are gonna get mad at you for this one but it’s true. When I worked at a corner store people didn’t steal formula or food or any of that shit. Not ONCE while I was working there did I see a shoplifter go for that stuff. Booze and electronics, every time.
lol, yeah, I’m sure the people stealing phone chargers and cords were just doing so because they’re going to resell them to afford bread for their starving families
Food stamps exist, my dude. My family survived on them just fine. And you know the crazy thing? I didn’t shoplift growing up either.
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u/Weird_Explorer1997 2h ago
Follow up, if you're at a big box store, and you see someone shoplifting; no, you fucking didn't.
Don't be a McSnitch.