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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.