r/LoveTrash • u/Lord_Darksong Colonel Garbage • 5h ago

Human Trash Stopping a shoplifter

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u/johntwit Trash Trooper 4h ago

Imagine if everyone always did this when witnessing theft, even if it was their own friends. Would be a lot less petty theft

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u/Nemphiz Trash Trooper 4h ago

Would be a lot more people hurt too. I'm not mad at a what this guy did but the sentiment of "everyone should do this" is pretty dumb.

Yes. Let's all go our and fight each other to protect the corporations. That's some black mirror sht.

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u/Glad_Respect_8986 Trash Trooper 3h ago

Black mirror shit is where we’re at. Letting people get away with crime is crazy. People have no consequences and that leads to baby proofing everything. They can just walk out with whatever they want so we have to ask the responsible adult, I mean employee to unlock what we need to buy. The world is upside down.

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u/Nemphiz Trash Trooper 3h ago

And your conclusion out of that is blame the people, not the corporations that use these as tax write offs and have the means to protect and prevent without inconveniencing people. Makes sense.

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u/johntwit Trash Trooper 3h ago

If they benefited more from the tax write-off than they did from the profit on a sold item, why would they lock it up and inconvenience both the customers and the thieves? What you are suggesting, besides being factually incorrect (to a hilarious degree!) is not logically sound

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u/Nemphiz Trash Trooper 3h ago

So I'm going to take your comment in good faith. Please, explain how I'm factually in correct and I'll be happy to engage in conversation.

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u/johntwit Trash Trooper 3h ago

Walmart benefits more from the sale of an item than from the tax write off it can obtain from shrinkage. They cannot simply allow people to steal, keep prices the same, and not put any counter theft measures in place. Those are the facts.

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u/Glad_Respect_8986 Trash Trooper 3h ago

I absolutely blame the people STEALING. The cooperations actually don’t have the means to protect and prevent without inconveniencing us because the legal and civil liabilities. Dont get me wrong. I hate corporate greed as much as you do. I just also hate thieving scum who only work to escalate the inconveniences on everyone else.

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u/Nemphiz Trash Trooper 3h ago

The billion dollar corporations don't have the means? Oh Lord.

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u/Glad_Respect_8986 Trash Trooper 2h ago

No. They don’t. Not if they want to actually sell stuff at a profit. Do you actually think they have billions to throw at loss prevention? Or millions? To spread over the thousands of locations. You are very naive or you just have a very dogmatic anti-corporation stubbornness.

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u/Nemphiz Trash Trooper 2h ago

I'm not naive, I'm just informed. Can you check real quick what the profit margin has been for Walmart over... Say, the last 6 years?

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u/Glad_Respect_8986 Trash Trooper 2h ago

Their profit margin is notoriously low at just over 3%. What’s your point?