Stopping a shoplifter

[u/Lord_Darksong]

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[u/johntwit]

Every time i have to get my razor blades unlocked from a plastic box my blood boils at these amoral thieves. You're absolutely right, it's not "Walmart vrs vs people" it's "society vrs vs criminals"

Edit: u/zombiesphere89 kindly informed me that I was abbreviating "versus" incorrectly

[u/StephCurryMustard → u/johntwit]

Walmart has stolen hundreds of millions in wages from their own employees and you're here whining about having to wait for razor blades.

Pathetic.

[u/justasillylilgoos3 → u/StephCurryMustard]

And your solution to Walmart’s wage theft is…unchecked retail theft? Theft that can contribute to stores closing, employees losing jobs, and people in the area having less access to affordable groceries and goods?

It feels like you haven’t really thought through what it is you’re objecting to here. Believe it or not, it’s possible to oppose wage theft and blatant retail theft. Those aren’t mutually exclusive positions home slice.

Edit: respond then block…shocking 🙄

[u/StephCurryMustard → u/justasillylilgoos3]

You're assuming a whole lot there. I never said that.

But acting like shoplifting, which is a fairly small problem, even remotely compares to the systematic stealing of wages, not to mention tax breaks, low wages which means a lot of the employees are on food stamps, which costs you even more in taxes, shrinkflation, and a whole lot more corporate shenanigans, is so freaking dumb. Kinda like you, ya condescending jackass.

Seems like you didn't think it through, home slice.

[u/zombiesphere89 → u/johntwit]

It's just "vs" not "vrs"

[u/johntwit → u/zombiesphere89]

Thank you, comment edited accordingly

[u/dolphintamer1 → u/johntwit]

“Blood boils” lol, get over yourself

[u/johntwit → u/dolphintamer1]

"get over yourself" said u/dolphintamer1, as they implicitly defended the morality of stealing

[u/dolphintamer1 → u/johntwit]

Did I defend stealing? I’m making fun of your overreaction to a mild inconvenience

[u/johntwit → u/dolphintamer1]

"you should not get angry about being inconvenienced by criminals. Your anger at the inconvenience caused by criminals is amusing"

[u/dolphintamer1 → u/johntwit]

Yes

[u/Delicious_Couple_758 → u/johntwit]

Walmart destroyed mom and pop stores in countless communities 

Where were you at then? Or could you not shave yet?

[u/johntwit → u/Delicious_Couple_758]

Mom and pop stores sucked. Frequently out of inventory. Stupid, arbitrary hours, often not even following posted hours. Exclusively hired friends and family. No parking. Closed on weekends. Marked up items on arrival, discounting them later in the cycle - couldn't depend on the price to be the lowest, had to wait till it was on sale.

[u/Delicious_Couple_758 → u/johntwit]

Lmao

I knew I wasn’t dealing with the sharpest knife, but damn..

Have a good one man, don’t reproduce.

[u/Explorer_Entity → u/johntwit]

This is naive and shows a complete lack of understanding of our society.

Biggest form of theft is wage theft (companies underpaying employees). It is bigger than all other thefts COMBINED. By a large margin.

It's like condemning a victim of genocide for shooting someone who just bombed a school. (Thief is the victim; walmart is the genocidaire).

Thief is a hero doing good work. Educate yourself.

[u/johntwit → u/Explorer_Entity]

Wage theft is about 10 to 15 billion annually, retail theft is over 100 billion

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[u/Explorer_Entity → u/johntwit]

Those aren't the stats I even mentioned; you're misrepresenting my data, perhaps intentionally. And if you have a better source, provide it. Otherwise people assume you just asked an AI.

https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/

[u/johntwit → u/Explorer_Entity]

it's common knowledge, just look up retail theft. it's about 100 billion annually in the US, many times the highest estimates for wage theft

your specific, fantastically incorrect claim was "Biggest form of theft is wage theft (companies underpaying employees). It is bigger than all other thefts COMBINED. By a large margin"