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We are forced to live in a system that steals from us daily, Kill snitch culture.

Important things to keep in mind!

- never take from ‘mom and pop’ type store. Its likely you’ll actually harm them, whereas taking from a walmart wont effect much.

- never take items that a worker is assigned to monitor (usually super expensive items), theyll be in trouble for it. and its usually a minimum wage worker and usually they lose hours or pay, or they even get fired.

- similar to the above, never take things that are usually locked up for the above reason

- if its a store you know gives their near-expiration products to workers/charity, try to avoid taking the near expiration products.

- if youre taking clothing, avoid leaving hangers. it sounds weird, but itll make it seem like it was more likely an error in the computer than a theft, since the empty hanger sitting there will seem suspicious. 

- also for clothing, try not to take more than one item at once, as it will look suspicious if theres 10 medium shirts missing, and it won’t be written off as just a stocking error. and it will lead to workers being penalized

- basically just always consider ‘will this harm a worker’ and if the answer is yes then dont do it

like i was homeless for a while when i was younger and i tried to follow those guidelines to avoid doing harm to people who were probably not much better off than me while trying to get food for myself.

Holy crap, is there like an unspoken thieves code or something?!

it’s a thing. I won’t even lie. I watched someone slip a nursing exam book in their bag at the store I worked at. She made eye contact with me and the blood drained from her face. I simply gave her a sympathetic nod and walked away.

I live in a small town and I knew she was a waitress at a hotel my sister works at, and people at that hotel don’t tip well during off season. Nursing exam books are 50+ bucks. Being a med student myself, I didn’t even breathe a word, and when inventory came up later and the book was missing, I suggested it was likely a mislabel, and the manager wrote it off.

Sometimes, thievery is a necessity. Don’t send people to jail over petty things.

theft for many is survival in this system and taking away from multi-billion dollar companies that are a part of the oppressive capitalist system

I love this post so much. Like, an unbelievable amount. 

….can we not fucking support shoplifting?

Like, you may think you’re making some giant statement against corporations, but really, you’re just fucking over the minimum wage employees at the bottom of the food chain.

The fat cats in the corporate offices don’t lose shit when people shoplift. All that happens when you shoplift is that the store fails to meet sales quota. And when that happens, the people who suffer are the hourly employees.

When a store doesn’t make quota, corporate responds by cutting that store’s budget. The store, in turn, then ends up firing people so they can stay under their new budget. And they won’t fire salaried employees, like management. No, they go after hourly employees like cashiers.

All shoplifting does is cause innocent people to lose their jobs and create a store environment that is impossible to maintain due to the loss of workers.

You want to talk about a system keeping people in poverty? It’s shoplifting culture.

Sincerely, a former retail employee who witnessed the effects of shoplifting firsthand.

(P.S. - if you really can’t afford a necessity, a lot of stores are willing to work with you. I witnessed a lot of people be given major discounts by management because they couldn’t afford toilet paper or food. Most of the people working at store level are not heartless bastards, we don’t want to see people suffering. I have personally used my own employee discount card to help someone afford baby food. I’ve seen management casually knock orders down to nearly fifty percent off. We had express permission to give ten percent off without management approval. WE DO CARE ABOUT PEOPLE.)

No but for real. Shoplifting doesn’t hurt gross greedy corporate people, it hurts minimum wagers because theft is loss and loss makes them cut store budgets and store budgets afford less hours when they are cut.

(Source: anarchismwillwin)