There is nothing morally wrong with shoplifting from multi-billion dollar stores like Walmart

Seafarer said:
OP needs to post hands.
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Anything 4 u sweetie
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The author has had indeed, a niggermoment. How did it feel to think like a nigger for your post?
 
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Colon capital V said:
If I can pirate software, games, movies, shows, books, etc because those companies are already making shitloads of cash and that it's "morally right" in some cases, then I don't see how shoplifting products is any different. Those companies are still gonna pay back farmers and producers for their work with their infinite cash.
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Colon capital V said:
Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, etc all make more money every second than you will ever make in your lifetime 10-fold, and stealing their products is not gonna do jackshit in hurting their bottom-line. You can just steal whatever and they'll pay it all back with no issues on either end.
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1. You know this isn't true and you admit it later on in your post. Shoplifting absolutely hurts a business bottom-line and is the reason why so many shops have been closing all over the US and the remaining ones have locked fridge doors and other BS security measures.
2. It seems you fundamentally think large businesses should not exist yet your american consoomerist ass depends on them. The idea our modern world could world without large businesses is comically näive.
Colon capital V said:
Oh no, I'm sorry a billion dollar convenient store isn't so convenient now and now you'll have to go and support local Ma & Pa stores. How tragic.
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Just so you know, big chain supermarkets have margins of about 2%, the only reason they earn as much as they do is simply their scale.
Colon capital V said:
Yeah from my neighbor. And I don't consider faceless corporations my neighbor. (Greed is sin btw)
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I thought grown-ups grew out of Robin Hood.
 
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Argentinian Tails said:
I agree OP, but you shouldn't make a habit of it. Maybe like a pack of gum every once in a while so you can feel like you're sticking it to the man with minimal risk to yourself.

People like Galen Weston are robbing you blind and you should not feel bad about repaying the favour occasionally.
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oh that four-eyed fucking prick? yeah that situation is different. that shrimp-dicked douchebag has been sending lobbyists to keep competition out of Canada for decades and having a lock on the grocery supply chain. the only reason we have Walmart and costco here is because they were able to navigate the westons' lobbying fuckery. The fucker has been crying poverty when he got 12 million in handouts during covid for new fridges, avoided nearly 400 million in taxes, all because he's making "only a 3% profit on groceries" while omitting he's backloading the profit on their supply side to appear that way, as every other grocer is beating their prices. he's whining and crying like a rape victim and the company putting up lol-worthy barricades and other anti-theft devices as shoppers are realizing walmart, costco metro, sobbeys, e.t.c are all lower prices
 
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If these companies have serious contempt for their customers that require them extra steps that would worsen their lives before purchasing the product then it would be sensible to steal from them especially if they're the only game in town. If only everyone is smart enough to tell such companies to go fuck themselves.

Niggers stealing from them don't count as it was made permissible by them.
 
The "if you steal from a corpo then the corpo will make things worse!" argument from people in ths thread is so fucking stupid. You acknowledge that a the gigacorporation has such an immense capacity for harm and then tell people to lick their boots just so they won't kill poor grandma Elma's wages or hike the price of food. Newsflash, they do that shit already for no reason. Go fuck yourselves.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
What exactly makes Walmart bad? That they're more successful than the average mom and pop shop? Are they implicitly evil just due to their overall competence? Are McDonalds and Starbucks evil, too?
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I wouldn't consider their existence morally wrong or evil. For that I was trying to start with OP's perspective, working backwards from the argument of theft is morally neutral. (Obviously I disagree with this.)

Since you mentioned it, what I object to about Walmart, McDonalds, Starbucks is the far-flung monoculture that is brought with it. I believe that the businesses that thrive in a place of living should be a reflection of the local mores and national chains can't be that because they have to serve all markets. Starbucks, as an example, will try to superficially combat this with a bulletin board in each location, "Welcome to <Town> Starbucks!". People can post stuff there but it doesn't change how the business is operated or how it changes its outward expression of style, be it the likeness of building, the pressure on local policy makers on how the land is used, or the type of people/surrounding shops it attracts. They've got a rollout plan, and if it's going to tailor to the specific location at all it's how to steamroll local obstacles.

Generally, national chains I have a problem with because their agenda is orthagonal to mine and the people around me. Small, local shops don't get a automatic pass on this, but nine times out of ten, there's not enough padding between customer and owner for that not to be the case.
 
Colon capital V said:
>"thou shalt not steal"
Yeah from my neighbor. And I don't consider faceless corporations my neighbor. (Greed is sin btw)
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"No, I am not stealing from you directly, I am just bankrupting the largest employer in our small town through retail theft. Totally different, chud!"'

OP is a retarded monkey and should be illegal.
 
These crimes are reported to insurers.

Even if no one EVER stole from the "Mom'n'Pop Shop", the increased retail crime from people stealing from Wal-Mart, et al. would raise the cost of their business insurance.

Also, the way these stores work is to lease shelf space and provide restocking and point-of-sale services. They do not own the inventory. You are not stealing from Wal-Mart, et al., you are stealing from whatever (probably still billion dollar) company produces it.

Those companies, like insurers, are ALSO going to notice the increased retail crime for your area and factor in those costs when it comes time to renegotiate their contracts with the Mom'n'Pop Shops.

When these rising costs are passed on to employees (lower pay) and customers (higher prices), the end result is that you ARE stealing from your neighbors.

People have mostly already covered that making a copy of information does not deprive anyone else of the information and is not theft in a literal material sense.

Copyright can make sense in a context where making copies of information is an expensive resource intensive activity, and the original publishers who bring new information to market are taking a significant financial risk. Those publishers will not be able to recoup their losses if any time they have a winning product, a competing publisher (who never risks bringing new information to market), can start making and selling copies of ONLY the popular works risk-free.

Here's the thing, though: these days making and distributing copies of information can be done digitally to a worldwide audience at a cost so low that many internet service providers do not even bother to measure it or charge for it.

For a handful of decades in the 1900s when making and distributing copies of recordings was an expensive activity, strict copyrights could be said to balance those risks. Now that those risks are less, likewise the justifiable extent of copyrights are also be less.

That the statutory regime around copyright has not caught up with the times and been rebalanced (and arguably seems to be getting even more unbalanced) does not change that copyright in that outdated form is not justifiable.
 
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Had said:
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More than 3 billion dollars worth of Walmart's merchandise is stolen every year. All you're doing is causing them to raise their prices to account for your retarded behavior. God forbid you get a job or learn to budget well enough not to steal, or have the self-control to avoid taking shitty Chinese products you don’t need. Don’t hide behind 'mom and pop stores' you’re a thief. If all the big corporate stores disappeared tomorrow, you’d find some other way to justify your actions.
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"y-y-y-you don't understand, the shoplifters MADE us have to jump up all the prices!" :(

I hate shoplifters as much as anyone else, but come the fuck on, you aren't actually falling for their blatant lies, right? They're just using shoplifters as an excuse to hike up prices. If no-one was stealing, they'd just blame "COVID" or "supply-chain issues" or some other nebulous shit as the reason for doing so instead. They're just raising them because they know that 90% of their consumers are a captive audience who can't really afford to go anywhere else.
 
Because I'm white and want a high trust society, where I don't have to worry about niggers stealing my car. Overlooking petty crime like theft is just willfully plunging your country into a death spiral simply because "big corpo bad. Me no likey. Bad things happening to them make me ACK ACK ACK." It's a belligerent, retarded admittance of not seeing the greater picture. Because you're a fucking nigger whose incapable of thinking more then 30 seconds into the future to see the great implications of these type of actions.

Don't steal faggot. Get a fucking job.
 
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