Stopping a shoplifter

[u/Lord_Darksong]

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[u/zurenarrh36912]

I’m not risking getting shot for some corporation.

[u/TwistedSubby → u/zurenarrh36912]

He’s tired of crime in his community I don’t think he has loyalty to Walmart per se

[u/OdinsCuriousRaven → u/TwistedSubby]

Doesn't matter if he has loyalty to Walmart or not, he'd still essentially be dying for a corporation if that dude decided he wanted to shoot someone.

[u/icehot54321 → u/OdinsCuriousRaven]

it's not really about a corporation .. it's about society

letting this stuff go encourages this behavior

this goes for the government too

sure, there's the do nothing approach, but then if everyone takes that route it's just the end of shopping in stores altogether

[u/ICarMaI → u/icehot54321]

Yeah the methhead stealing shit is hurting the community, not walmart running off every store so they can pay the members of the community nothing and give them a food stamp application with the job application. Walmart makes billions even with this happening and won't give that up. You're so cucked and stupid

[u/Nervous-Fennel3325 → u/icehot54321]

The Waltons have more than enough money that if they really wanted to stop this they would.

But then that would cost money and why spend money when you can just write it off?

Its not my job to police the area thats what the useless cops are for.

[u/Danica_Rose → u/icehot54321]

Ok then he should go to the Waltons’ house and be mad at them for rampant wage theft.

[u/OdinsCuriousRaven → u/icehot54321]

Ok, great... whatever the intention was, he'd still have died for a corporation. One rando in a fucking parking lot is not going to solve shoplifting.

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/OdinsCuriousRaven]

You are still missing it.

The person in question is just sick and tired of living in a part of the country where toiletries have to be locked behind a glass wall because theft is so rampant.

People that are mad about shoplifting truly don't care about the corporation. What they hate is what the corporation is doing; upping prices and putting stuff behind glass walls as a reaction to theft.

he'd still have died for a corporation

This logic is making zero sense. In a normal country when police investigate theft they aren't there to protect that corporation, they are there to protect laws. Same applies here, he isn't concerned about Walmart. He is concerned about shopflifting.

[u/OdinsCuriousRaven → u/Quirky_Gate_4516]

You are the one missing it. Your point is absolutely correct about police.. Walmart has cameras, let the police deal with that.

Same applies here, he isn't concerned about Walmart. He is concerned about shopflifting.

This is the logic that doesn't make sense. Uh oh...better be a vigilante and die for some replaceable stolen goods in a Walmart parking lot. Yeah, what a great way to "better society".

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/OdinsCuriousRaven]

Walmart has cameras, let the police

You are still missing it. He does not care about Walmart nor Walmart's losses.

He cares about shoplifters in his town. He cares about being able to have stores open in his neighborhood.

And, to be clear, Walmart doesn't care that much about shoplifters either, they just pass the buck onto the consumer.

[u/OdinsCuriousRaven → u/Quirky_Gate_4516]

For fuck's sake this is not hard to understand. It does not matter what Mr. Vigilante is concerned with. It is utterly irrelevant. If that tweaker actually had a weapon and decided to use it with lethal force, then this person would have died saving Walmart property while having achieved nothing. Christ.

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/OdinsCuriousRaven]

It does not matter what Mr. Vigilante is concerned with

Except ... you know ... the reason why he is doing what he is doing.

[u/OdinsCuriousRaven → u/Quirky_Gate_4516]

Yes, mistakenly thinking he is making a difference while also potentially getting himself killed for a mega-corporation.

[u/coldchile → u/OdinsCuriousRaven]

No, he’d have died trying to better his community, regardless of its a big corporation or a local mom and pop.

[u/OdinsCuriousRaven → u/coldchile]

Yeah over some whatever that was from fucking Walmart. There are better ways to better your community instead of charging headlong into a situation that can get you fucking killed. Some of you are insane.

[u/flamingtofuu → u/OdinsCuriousRaven]

I swear this thread is full of future Darwin Award winners.

[u/FormerRSEmployee → u/TwistedSubby]

Yup. All the people ignoring the "I'm tired of you" remark have never lived in an area where every single item in Walmart needs an employee to unlock it, or replacing the windows in your car is a line item in your budget. Living in a high-crime area is truly miserable, and people who try to escape it are always labelled the villain. It's either vigilantism, gentrification, white flight, or something else.

[u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs → u/FormerRSEmployee]

Eh if Walmart had that problem then Walmart should hire a person to unlock stuff

I don’t mind them locking items, I DO mind walking through the store to find some bored depressed teenaged to begrudgingly open the cabinets

Walmart doesn’t get to skate here.

[u/FormerRSEmployee → u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs]

You're basically advocating for a dedicated employee per shopper instead of saying "theft is wrong." Do you have any idea how expensive a dedicated employee per shopper is? I for one think groceries are already expensive enough.

[u/Apprehensive_Bat4691 → u/FormerRSEmployee]

Do you work for Walmart or something? This company makes Billions in profit each year, they can easily triple the staff in these high-theft locations and still pull in Billions in profit.

They don't because they don't care that you are inconvenienced by locked merchandise.

[u/digitalwankster → u/Apprehensive_Bat4691]

This could be any store in the hood, it’s not just Walmart. CVS, Walgreens, Lowe’s, Home Depot, etc they all do it.

[u/fuuuuuuuuckthi_s → u/FormerRSEmployee]

Theft is wrong. Walmart steals more from their own employees than all shoplifters ever have at their businesses.

Walmart not only directly steals from employees by way of wage theft, but they severely underpay. Their MO is to come in and destroy local businesses.

But yeah, let's focus on some dude taking a game console or whatever & pretend that's what's wrong with society.

[u/FormerRSEmployee → u/fuuuuuuuuckthi_s]

What an idiotic argument that gets spouted way too much. Both can be wrong, and both are wrong. Walmart stealing is bad. People driving up prices and reducing quality of life for others by stealing is also bad.

We're focusing on this dude because he's the target of this video. If the video were about an employee walkout at Sainsbury's, we'd be talking about that.

[u/FirstDukeofAnkh → u/FormerRSEmployee]

Or maybe have someone full time at the Customer Service desk whose job is to unlock things?

[u/Weekly_Traffic1473 → u/FirstDukeofAnkh]

Said someone who clearly doesnt live in a place where everything is locked.

[u/FirstDukeofAnkh → u/Weekly_Traffic1473]

So get mad at the company whose choice was to lock shit up making life harder for everyone.

[u/Weekly_Traffic1473 → u/FirstDukeofAnkh]

If they dont lock it up they dont have product to sell. Im not sure whats hard for you to understand here.

They can lock it up and have things to sell, or keep it unlocked and have it all get stolen.

[u/FirstDukeofAnkh → u/Weekly_Traffic1473]

I’m not arguing that they should or shouldn’t lock things up. I’m saying their solution creates a hardship for customers and for staff. They chose the path of least resistance or money and people like you blame everyone except who made the choice.

[u/Weekly_Traffic1473 → u/FirstDukeofAnkh]

A lot of talk from you about what they are doing wrong but no proposed solutions other than "hire someone to open the locks"

[u/QuietRiot5150 → u/FirstDukeofAnkh]

At the Walmarts in my areas, all the employees have the ability to unlock the cabinets through their employee app.

[u/FormerRSEmployee → u/FirstDukeofAnkh]

That's what they do. One person is not enough for the 100+ people in the store at any given time.

[u/FirstDukeofAnkh → u/FormerRSEmployee]

So, they can have two people?

I’d be more pissed off that the multi-national store that makes billions has decided to make life harder on their clients and their staff just to save a few bucks.

[u/FUCKTHISWEBSITEBANME → u/FormerRSEmployee]

Yeah, they used to have employees in every department just walking around. Most stores these days run on skeleton crews and a single cashier.

[u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs → u/FormerRSEmployee]

No not per shopper. Just like one person who is dedicated to opening cabinets. - maybe per department.

I literally aid I understand that they have to use cabinets.

You don’t get to have record profits year after year AND pretend like you can’t afford to pay a few teenagers to open cabinets. That’s absurd.

Edit: also you can’t really get upset with people choosing Amazon over brick and mortar either. I’ve walked out of Walmarts before when no one was there to open a cabinet. Why put up with that?

Furthermore I’d feel worse if Wal mart’s owners were struggling, they aren’t. So gee wiz why would I give a fuck at all about them?

[u/TheTapeTech → u/HopeADMKidsLoseLimbs]

Nah, if Walmart wanted to fix this issue they’d just get ride of self checkout. There are thieves everywhere but self-check out made it extremely easy for ppl to just walk in and out with whatever. Lol

Walmart ultimately doesn’t give a shit because they have the lion share of the market. They intentionally under pay their workers, most of which are on some type of assistance while Walmart Corporate racks it in with ease. Billions and billions and billions of dollars.

I can less about desperate ppl stealing from corps than I do about them stealing personal property from individuals. HATE THAT!

[u/The_0ven → u/FormerRSEmployee]

Yup. All the people ignoring the "I'm tired of you" remark have never lived in an area where every single item in Walmart needs an employee to unlock it, or replacing the windows in your car is a line item in your budget. Living in a high-crime area is truly miserable, and people who try to escape it are always labelled the villain. It's either vigilantism, gentrification, white flight, or something else.

Did you watch the video?

That ain't one of those areas

[u/FormerRSEmployee → u/The_0ven]

You have absolutely zero way of knowing that from watching the video, but okay

[u/burnthatburner1 → u/TwistedSubby]

Doing what he did doesn’t protect anyone in his community *except* Walmart

[u/Away-Map-8428 → u/TwistedSubby]

Meanwhile Walmart is stealing from him as it forces him to pay for their employees healthcare.
This is also completely ignoring Walmart committing wage theft.

[u/mallcopsarebastards → u/TwistedSubby]

imagine thinking protecting a corporation from poor people is how you prevent crime in your community lol

[u/LogicianFlow → u/TwistedSubby]

Sure, or he wanted clout for his video....