Yeah, so many people in here are saying nobody ever does this and everybody who is stealing is just re-selling the goods but I don't see anybody actually substantiating that. But like, it can't be right, can it? Surely some larceny is done for personal use. And even then, most cases of theft aren't documented because when someone gets away with stealing some expensive necessity they don't tell the cops.

It's got this "nuh-uh, everybody knows dogs can't look up" energy. Like if it's so obvious, how? What are they talking about?

[–] shani66@ani.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I bet its people trying to justify their veneration of the law, a major issue I've seen on the Internet in recent years. Most people shoplift for thrills (iirc), then it's desperation. And even if someone steals to resell, they literally can't do a mark up outside of specific, terrible, circumstances since the store (and hundreds of stores just like it) are right there.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah plus just the logistics of trying to shoplift enough product to make enough money to justify going to the trouble of sellng food on a street corner sounds so absurd. Like how do you do that without getting caught all the time? You would need to be shifting volume.

And when you get this kind of recurrent misinfo I assume it's a story that gets passed around somewhere, like some reactionary commentators are repeating it to their audiences or something.