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

Have You Ever Shoplifted?


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The loss in produce has got to be higher from straight-up rotting on the shelf or being accidentally damaged rather than some people eating bananas/apples in the store. How would you even discern which was which, and would it even be meaningful if nobody ate fruit in the store?
They weight the stuff that rot in the store before disposal.

Like others haves stated;theft will result in the minimum wage workers not getting a christmas bonus because the money went to paying for additional security
Stealing is bad, I agree with that, but saying that it will be taken out of employee bonus is laughable. It's not like any low level wage cuck would ever get that in the first place
 
In high-school I used to steal jewelry from generic fashion brands (H&M, Zara, etc), the jewelry packaging never had a scanner on it, so ripping off the earrings and necklaces was easy. I wasn't going to spend 10$ on some bullshit plastic necklace. I've also stolen from my (previous country)'s souvenir shop, but it wasn't a family business one and it was the most full, so I didn't feel bad. I wouldn't do it to a small souvenir shop tbh, I'd feel bad for the old grandpa working there.
 
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I did maybe 3 times, 4 max, when I was a young teenager because one of my friends did it. I felt guilty/paranoid every time but never got caught and quit while I was ahead. Didn’t stay friends with her for very long, either.
 
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One time I was picking out Christmas ornaments with my sister and we found one we liked, but realized when we got to the register that it didn't have a price tag. She suggested we just steal it and I felt a little guilty about it and personally I would have just left it or called an attendant, but I didn't want to fight her so we just did that.

Now allow me to moralfag from a more novel angle.

Stealing is bad for you. Your personal and spiritual integrity is harmed when you break what you know are rules and theft is a particularly corrosive transgression. To be a thief is a contemptable thing because even if an individual act of stealing can be justified, you've made yourself more comfortable with stealing as a concept.
 
I shoplifted a lot of candy and gum for one or two months when I was 13. Eventually, I got caught and I was so mortified that I stopped. I do still raid the bulk candy section at certain stores and frankly, I'm never going to give that up. In college, I thought a lot about stealing library books, but ultimately resisted the temptation.
 
All I can think of is how many shitty games you aquired. The gameboy had a good library, but most games weren't Link's Awakening or Pokemon Tier.
The GBC port of Daikatana is surprisingly good. Think John Romero had a download link for it on his website. Not sure if he still does.
I collect action figures and model kits so whenever I step in the aisle for them I also have to see what kinds of other toys they have. If you want to know which aisle has the most shit stolen it's the Kids Aisle. There's no rhyme or reason to it. Just little timmies told they couldn't have it and breaking a part something to get it. In fact I saw a LPS mystery box opened on them.

I don't think they actually check the kids aisles. Yeah sure lock up the deodorant and baby formula.
This also happens because kids just forget when it comes time to actually pay for whatever it is they wanted. Probably also happens with any gift card related to video games. It's really easy to forget you have a PSN card in your pocket when you're tired from a long ass shopping trip that was 70% your mom talking to people.
 
I think it can also be opportunity in a different way: women still handle more shopping for a household than men. This means more customers and thieves will likely be female. I'm sure the in-house shrink of a store depends on the gender percentage of the staff who work at a place. So warehouse workers that have a lot of males moving heavy objects likely have more men shoplifting. And a store that more male customers go into, like a hardware store, likely has a bigger male percentage of thieves.
Possible but I would also think the high value items in a hardware store (power tools etc) are going to be too large and bulky for people to steal, whereas grocery stores and pharmacies have lots of small high value items (eg cosmetics, personal care items, I’ve read spices are also really prone to theft) that are relatively easy to steal if one wanted to.

IMO the most serious shrinkage problems retailers face aren’t from normie shoppers casually taking screws or nail polish while shopping for other things because they’re annoyed about inflation or whatever, but dedicated thieves who are stealing to finance a drug habit or something like that. Baby formula used to be a hot target for that a few years ago which is why many stores now keep it behind the counter or in a locked case. (Or see SF pharmacies where nearly every item is behind a locked case because of petty theft has been decriminalized there and lifters were just casually taking hundreds of dollars of products, knowing the cops wouldn’t do anything if it was under a certain breakpoint.)

I also recall BP lolcow Luna Slater allegedly takes personal care and cosmetics from pharmacies to try and fence.
I'm sorry. I can't imagine eating that stuff without washing it. You don't know who has touched those grapes. I also hate it when people drink sodas and then put the empty bottle back on the shelf. People also do it with popsicles.
ngl I let my daughter eat a 69 cent banana and a 1.40 cheese stick at the WF while I shop because otherwise she's going to raise hell that I'm putting all this awesome food in the cart and not letting her have any, but I do scan the wrappers and pay for what she eats.
 
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.
tbf basic nutritional food is so abundant in America that we could feed ourselves three times over daily (and some people do!) and it wouldn't be a big problem. I got no quarrel with people lifting ramen and chips to survive, but I'm also the kind of softie who gives homeless people money and hopes it helps.
 
ngl I let my daughter eat a 69 cent banana and a 1.40 cheese stick at the WF while I shop because otherwise she's going to raise hell that I'm putting all this awesome food in the cart and not letting her have any, but I do scan the wrappers and pay for what she eats.

Well bananas do come in their own packaging. Giant has free tangerines and bananas at the door. But grapes or other berries? Fuck no. And I've seen all kinds of fruits with bites out of them. I once passed by a house where bitter melon was being grown. There was a bitter melon on the ground with a bite taken out of it. I hear it tastes pretty bad raw.

When my sister was five some older kid everyone hated told her he needed Cool Whip. He took her to the supermarket two blocks away and told her it was ok for her to just take it. I guess since he was 12 she thought he knew better. So the manager catches her at the door with the Cool Whip and asks her why she has it. She tells him who told her she could take the Cool Whip and the manager just put it back in the freezer. He told my mom later what happened. He said this kid stole all the time from the store. I guess this kid either thought it was funny or he needed a patsy.
 
Giant has free tangerines and bananas at the door.
Nostalgic and regional but I remember before sugar got demonized and Harris Teeter used to have a sugar cookie box where "kids of all ages" could come get one very nice 120-kcal sugar cookie if desired.
I'm sure the free tangerines/bananas is healthier and more flavorful. Some Whole Foods locations do that but not mine, unfortunately :(

The people taking a bite out of fruits and leaving them on the shelves might be really underage though. (like, so underage they couldn't be charged.) Especially if they're trying to eat bitter melons, those have to be cooked.
 
I have a cousin that works in a foreign country that would bring over a ton of gloves for my family when he visited. I was initially told that they were super cheap by my parents, but then he admitted to me that he just stole them from work. When I got to work in agriculture myself, I realized how easy that actually is. There's just piles of them in the dressing room, that anybody can take with them at any time, because intense labor wears them down really fast. Nothing is stopping you from taking multiple pairs with you, even if your co-workers spot you doing it, nobody gives a fuck. You just need to make sure the managers don't spot you, who are typically cooked up in their office rooms. Even better that we had Vietnamese co-workers, so even if the managers started suspecting that somebody's taking too much, they'd default to their SEAmonkey workforce who spend all day picking weeds, not white people that are specialized in driving equipment like tractors. Never took any myself, because I don't own a yard at the place I currently live, what am I gonna do with them?

The most brazen ones though would take shoes, pants, jackets and other clothing with them. Brazen because you're supposed to bring those back after your contract ends. I heard that there was one guy that had a mere 1 month contract and took ALL the clothes they wore with them. That's what made it click for me why there were so many clothes with agriculture company brands from Spain or Norway or some shit. People "forget" to bring them back to their workplace and then either bring it to their families or resell them. The most coveted item being those weird work shoes with plastic laces that get tightened with a spinner. The shoes stick to your leg and the laces will never get untied. They also hold metal protection at the toe area, you could hit it with a hammer and your toes would be fine. Very hard to find in stores at my country, or are ludicrously expensive. But western agricultural workplaces give those out for free (again, until the contract ends).

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Also a pro-tip, if you're white, try shoplifting once some minority, preferably a family of them, enters a store. I've interacted with enough gypsies to know that security looking at the cameras and those on the ground are HYPERFOCUSED on them, making it child's play to steal shit, because they get so tunnel visioned. I think some of them even exploit this, they come into the store, just walk around, get a few innocuous items like cabbage or soda, get attention from the guards, while their paler or straight up white friend takes what they actually need. The guards could be playing race guesser all day during their spare time, they won't suspect a thing (unless you are in a highly diverse area and the guard himself is a minority).
 
The idea of people eating/drinking stuff in the store - the actual products from the store, I mean - is weirdly horrifying to me. Even if you’re the type to keep the wrapper so it can be scanned and paid for at the checkout, wtf is wrong with you that you couldn’t wait the fifteen minutes’ shopping time until you’d paid for the item? No idea why it bothers me so much. It just feels really dirty and gluttonous somehow. I’ve never actually seen anyone doing it, but I can absolutely believe it happens regularly. Vile.
I used to bribe my year old daughter with a donut (and get one for myself to eat at home) on every grocery trip. She would eat it in the cart and I’d tell the cashier 2 donuts at checkout. This was 30 years ago and I never saw anyone fussed about a baby calming snack.
 
This may be a hard pill to swallow for some people... but stealing is kinda not good... regardless of race... barring niche circumstances.
Whites who proudly admit to shoplifting in this thread aren't so different than the niggers they hate. If you're going to commit a crime you can come up with a thousand justification for it no matter what the crime is.
 
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