Have any of you shoplifted before? - Who says crime is only considered a "man and minority thing?"

[Shakira Flabbergasted]

I know none of you people are in desperate situations considering the fact the 2/3rds of America are overweight or obese.

Next time you go to the store, take note of how much a bag of chips or a candy bar costs compared to an equivalent amount of fresh fruit and vegetables. Chicken breast costs less than pizza. Beans and rice are cheaper than burgers. The amount of money you'd need to spend every week just to maintain a weight of 300 lbs is astronomical, and most obese people aren't even maintaining, they're gaining. If an obese person ever tells you they're fat because they're poor and junk food is cheaper, know that it's the opposite. They're poor because they are fat.

The moralfagging on behalf of huge corporations in this thread is amazing

Again, you will never hurt a huge corporation by stealing. It just won't happen. They will do whatever they have to do in order to ensure their bottom line isn't affected, and they have the resources to do it. The only people you're hurting are the ones who end up having to subsidize your dumb ass by paying inflated retail prices, and wasting time waiting while a store employee unlocks the toilet paper. Retail theft is like spitting on the sidewalk and thinking you're sticking it to the man. In reality, you're just fucking up public spaces and making everyone else think how gross and trashy you are. You are actively creating a low trust society.

 

[Gay Buttsex in the Ass]

This one time I shoplifted lipstick. I was like 7 and retarded so I didn't know any better.
I'm still retarded though.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

We really need to rescue, and revive the old thread we had on shoplifters from the spergatoried Tumblr board.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

Honestly, when I was younger and could drink on weekends, I really had to start making a conscious effort not to go to the store when I overdid it and had a hangover because I was just completely fucked up trying to do self check-out. Like, so spaced out I would just put stuff in my bag and not even realize I didn't scan it, picking up multiple items at once but only scanning the top one, just plain forgetting stuff in my basket. I don't know how I wasn't confronted, maybe they could smell the borderline-alcholic retardation on me, but I walked out with a lot of free shit there for a while.

 

[Pineapple Fox]

@AN/ALR56 My favourite part of this website, and what has kept me keep logging in for years, is the different perspectives of people from all walks of life collaborating, and the opinions they have. Your comment gave me a lot to think about. I, respectfully, disagree with the majority of what you had to say on my drive-by shit post, but I still appreciate it I am going to keep stealing from my local chain grocery store. and I am not going to feel guilty about it.

 

[el bandito loco]

oh yeah, actually I did know one man who was basically a professional shoplifter. that motherfucker was crazy. I didn't know for a long time he was always stealing shit but a mutual friend was like don't send him in the store alone, he never pays for anything. We'd have summer bbqs and shit all the time and he'd go in the store and fill a cart with beer, liquor, meat, cheese, buns, charcoal and shit and just walk the fuck out. grocery store, Wal-Mart, butcher shop, didn't fuckin' matter. he never got caught either. I said fuck that advice and always sent him in the store alone, saved me tons of money when I knew him.

I saw him do that shit at home depot one time for a bunch of lumber and a couple tools and boxes of nails so we could build something, and do some various home repairs he wanted help with. the workers helped him carry it the fuck out. he told me the trick was to be nicely groomed and dressed and seem like you're just going about your day. fuckin' crazy. he stole a brand new Xbox one time according to another guy, I asked him if that was true and he said "oh, yeah. I walked in asked for it out of the case and left."

that guy was like an alien. I've never met anyone else who seriously just did whatever the fuck they wanted the way he did. He acted like some societal norms just didn't exist. He wasn't a prick or malicious or even dumb or particularly smart. it came across like paying for things, or not just cutting through lines places/walking right in the back door of a movie theater/whatever just never occurred to him.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

i never shoplifted anything but when i was a teenager i paid for a bunch of stuff with fake bills. It was pretty easy to get away with it rolling in the fakes in between a stack of low denomination real ones.

If someone said anything i just acted surprise as if someone else stuck me with the fake bill so never got in trouble. I kinda had to do it sometimes because i was not given any lunch money, most of what i bought was consumables.

Except one time i got too cocky and asked someone for change for a large denomination bill , they game me the change and i stiffed them with the fake, and a really bad fake too. They didn't notice until the next day and gave me shit for it, then i just payed the money back and luckily for me it didn't go further than that, didn't got into trouble but was the last time i did it.

I think i only wanted to test it until someone called me out, i knew it would happen and once it did i never wanted to do it again.

 

[glioblastoma multiforme]

Food, when I had a drug problem.

You could tell by looking at me so most other shops wouldn't let me in, or security would follow me around.

I felt bad at the time but don't now, I definitely needed the nutrition and was never going to actively choose it over drugs.

 

[Ruined by the Rain]

The moralfagging on behalf of huge corporations in this thread is amazing

I understand shoplifting as a teen but as soon as you hit 16 and become employable you should get a real job to pay for your shit. It's not even hard to do cuck summer jobs. You just stand around for 8 hours and get paid

 

[Catboy Ranch]

A looong time ago, grocery stores in the USA used to have pick n' mix candy. You grabbed a paper sack and a small metal shovel, and dug into bins full of various sorts of candies and put it in the sack, wrote down the weight on the sack and closed it shut with a sticker.

They immediately got rid of this shit as soon as foreign niggers appeared in the country, around 1985.

 

[Chappell's Lost Earring]

I am going to keep stealing from my local chain grocery store. and I am not going to feel guilty about it.

Yeah, I really don’t get all the moralfagging in this thread. The prices will continue to be high and continue to spike whether or not you continue to steal. Many stores have been accused of price hiking when it wasn’t necessary, making insane profits off the pandemic, and paying employees unlivable wages. But yeah let’s keep defending the companies hitting record profits every year. Fuck em. Steal your little hearts out. I’ll abstain for reasons I already stated, but go ham you little kleptomaniacs.

 

[Frankly my dear]

Yes, never got caught though (I'm sure it would have scared me enough to stop right there) but now I'm getting too paranoid to do it. I just stole make-up, accessories and stuff, never clothes or anything bigger (or anything with an alarm). I also stole from self checkouts sometimes when they were still a new thing (maybe I still put the wrong price on occasion).
Might pick it up again once I'm old(er) and truly invisible.

Never made a career out of it, so it really was only on occasion. Never told about it to anyone either.... Except to everyone at Kiwifarms right now, lol.

 

[Shakira Flabbergasted]

Yeah, I really don’t get all the moralfagging in this thread.

Most of us talking about why you shouldn't steal have previously lived in/currently live in countries where everyone actually does steal, and we've witnessed the social consequences. @AN/ALR56 is Brazilian and I'm an American who's stayed for extended periods in various brown countries and witnessed their behavior. If you want the US to resemble one eventually, keep stealing. It's already well on its way because of people like you. If you don't want to listen, that's fine, but actions have consequences and those consequences are consistent and predictable.

 

[Mound Dweller]

It's already well on its way because of people like you. If you don't want to listen, that's fine, but actions have consequences and those consequences are consistent and predictable.

Indeed, "simping for corporations" is missing the forest for trees, or commie bullshit.
When you condone theft you aren't just permitting stealing a few $£ from some faceless company, you're delegitimizing a basic principle of a civilised society.
It's not even a moral thing really, certainly not for me, I work for the fuckers and I don't give a toss about their greedy profit margins (they make too much anyway), but I do see the grand tragedy of the commons which is what is really at play; not being Brazil is a social construct, and if you hack away at it that's what you're gonna get.

Case in point; European cities and how they have rapidly changed in the last couple of decades, it's not even a race thing, it's a "people who don't care for rules" thing.

 

[Chappell's Lost Earring]

It's already well on its way because of people like you.

I’ve never stolen. None of my posts say I stole anything.

I just hate big corporations for very valid reasons, and I am not going to moralfag people who do steal from them.

Nigger countries had other problems, mainly being countries inhabited by niggers. You can’t directly compare them to a country with incredible GDP like the US where big corp bends us over backwards to make shareholders a nice.

I still don’t give a shit, and I’m done engaging with this circle jerk.

 

[Shakira Flabbergasted]

I've never stolen. None of my posts say I stole anything.

I realized after I posted it that you were going to respond with this. Participating in normalizing stealing is what I'm talking about. You don't have to have actively stolen to participate in normalizing the breakdown of civilized society.

Nigger countries had other problems, mainly being countries inhabited by niggers. You can’t directly compare them to a country with incredible GDP like the US where big corp bends us over backwards to make shareholders a nice dividend.

You can when the US (and other majority white countries, including the UK) is actively headed in the same direction. If you're white and you behave like a person of socioeconomic factors, there is no difference between your behavior and theirs. You can't blame them for the outcome when you act the same way they do. The only difference between you and them is the "oppressive structures" you place the blame on for your failure to act civilized. They blame wypipo and you blame shareholders. It's still a lame excuse.

 

[Mound Dweller]

I just hate big corporations for very valid reasons, and I am not going to moralfag people who do steal from them.

The phrase you're looking for is "fellow traveller" or less kindly "useful idiot", it's the same (bad) logic behind "it's just a drawing" and "money isn't real anyway" strands of thought. You can cope over "they're greedy" all you want but ultimately; stealing is wrong, you can contest there's moral exceptions to this (there are), but those only prove the rule.
Just out of interest, do you even vote? With your wallet or otherwise, I bet you don't.

 

[Super Guido]

Indeed, "simping for corporations" is missing the forest for trees, or commie bullshit.

Those clowns always have an excuse, like "the company can't deduct it from your wages - that's illegal". Well so is stealing, but you don't seem to care about that!

They'd get their ass fed to a trash compactor if they were actually living in a Communist country.

 

[BunchaBabyDucks]

Does time theft count?

 

[pippy]

I stole a keychain when I was 6 years old and cried the whole day from guilt. Besides that, I stole a bag of gummy bears from work once because I went 4 days without eating. Also, this homeless guy once walked in and stuffed his disgusting loose pants with like $200 of premium honey bottles.

Personally, I don't give a shit about corporations, but it does kinda reek of nigger behavior to me, kinda in the same camp as people who throw fast food trash out the car window or don't put their shopping cart back.

These store employees know who's stealing pretty often, but most company policies are very clear that you are not to intervene and, in a lot of cities, the cops aren't going to show up unless you have a knife in you. I think Target is one of the only big chains that is serious about catching people, but that could be outdated. It's actually more effort than you would think to get someone banned and to actually enforce it over and over so plenty of stores will just let someone come in occasionally and steal 20-30 dollars worth of stuff because it's not worth it to do anything. Walmart typically has the policy to check for a receipt if it's not in a bag. The amount of theft that goes in in ghetto Walmarts is a thing to behold.

I know it's kind of moralfagging but I think this whole thing of trying to sneak a few dollars worth of stuff is pretty niggerish if you don't really need it, and it erodes trust further. I'm actually getting pretty sick of people thinking I have malicious intentions because I forgot to scan something, or I have to return a box that was stolen from before buying. I actually had to go to walmart for something recently, and they had this whole section off space for hair care and stuff, and they make you pay for it before being able to leave the little corner and that's after getting someone to unlock and open a huge glass case. Feels so weird and shameful when you know you haven't done anything wrong