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i understand security doing their (shitty) job. but it boggles my mind how customers inform on each other for free. just for the joy of licking boot (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by stabby_cicada to c/shoplifting

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[–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You know what the top locked item in every major grocery store is? Fucking baby formula. I wouldn't just shut the fuck up if I saw someone trying to steal formula, I would actively help them

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

See, this is where it does get difficult. Baby formula is popular because its resellable. In fact there has been a time, and I don't know if that's still ongoing, where there were issues with baby formula in China, some of it got poisoned in some way. So Chinese parents started distrusting Chinese-made baby formula. This opened a market for reselleing non-Chinese baby formula to Chinese customers.

If you look online you can see lots of articles for example showing that in Australia Chinese resellers bought up all the baby formula stores had on the shelf, with the only goal to resell it.

Now I don't know how many tried to just steal it instead, but that number is surely not 0. So if a shop only has 3 packages left and a person is trying to steal all of them, it might not be for their baby, if they even have one.

If we are talking about other products, bread, potatoes, rice... I agree with you. Baby formula... is difficult.

[–] kvartsdan@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 8 months ago

I would just give them the benefit of the doubt. If someone is stealing baby formula you keep your god damned mouth shut. End of story. Even if they steal it to sell it, it probably means that someone might be able to afford it down the line. I would not risk ratting someone out for trying to feed their baby. How is this even a concern? It might not be someone who tries to feed their baby so I better rat them out, just in case? That's fucked up.