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filoria , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting

Good. The problem falls at the hands of the companies making billions of dollars of excess profits, not on the individuals saving a tens or hundreds of dollars.

Bonehead ,

Yeah...until the companies making billions of dollars put blockers at the entrances that can't fit a cart, and people checking receipts at the exit, just like what they did in Canada. Then everyone gets to be treated like a thief.

BirdyBoogleBop ,

How do you get shopping to the car?

Bonehead ,

You have to go through the exit that you can only get to by going through a cashier station.

TheMightyCanuck ,
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

Where in canada? Cause all the major chains don’t check your bags or cart other than Costco…

Source: Canadian who buys groceries

Bonehead , (edited )

I believe they were checking receipts in Toronto. But all the big chain grocery stores like Zerhs around me have all put in barriers at the front door.

TheMightyCanuck ,
@TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works avatar

Neat. Thanks for the info. Nothing like that (yet) in alberta except maybe more people watching self checkout

Mr_Blott , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting

Waste of time, Karen. A £150 trolley is only about a third full you dipshit

Neato ,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

Yeah. Clearly she's never watched Supermarket Sweep!

AbidanYre ,

Go for the butterballs!!

happybadger , to worldnews in China’s CO2 emissions may be falling already, in a watershed moment for the world
@happybadger@hexbear.net avatar

Why would China want a habitable biosphere unless they were really planning to live in it?

AlphaOmega , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting

“Rather than artificial intelligence, we’re going for actual intelligence.” Does this guy think his customers are robots or that a standard PC with a barcode scanner is considered AI?

alienanimals , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting

This Karen is an asshole, but so are the supermarkets who collude on prices and collectively steal from everyone else just because they can.

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    AluGeris ,

    It’s not an adjective, it’s pejorative, Karen.

    PhlubbaDubba ,

    Can almost hear that fucking haircut through this

    CrayonRosary ,

    I immediately think less of anyone who doesn’t know the difference between a noun and an adjective.

    interceder270 ,

    Calling someone ‘a’ Karen is using the word as an adjective.

    Calling someone ‘Karen’ is using it as a proper noun.

    I’m guessing you just looked at the upvoted comment that said it’s not an adjective and assumed it was correct.

    For shame.

    apolo399 ,

    This is a person This is a human This is an individual

    Are all of those adjectives? lol

    rbesfe ,

    My brother in christ you need to retake primary school English and learn what nouns are

    sunbytes ,

    If I call you a Muppet does that make Muppet an adjective?

    Wilibus ,

    On the internet anyone and everyone is always right.

    Appleseuss ,

    In this context, ‘This’ is the adjective, as it describes the amount of Karens there are in this sentence. Karen is indeed the noun in this situation.

    An example of using ‘Karen’ as an adjective would be: ‘did you how so-and-so went completely Karen on that clerk?’

    You visualize how so-and-so acted in a particular way towards the clerk. The adjective to describe the behavior was ‘Karen’.

    Hope that clears things up.

    corsicanguppy ,

    so are the supermarkets who collude on prices and collectively steal from everyone else

    I hear you suggesting that makes it okay.

    If so, how much theft are you cool with subsidizing?

    settoloki ,

    Did they change their comment or something because no part of what they say is claiming to be ok with this? Perhaps I’m reading it wrong

    alienanimals ,

    If a comment has been edited, it will display a little pencil icon. I did not edit my initial comment, but I edited this one so you could compare.

    I think Corsican just got confused, but I suppose they could be using a strawman argument.

    Fades ,

    They did not change it, there is no edit icon present on their comment

    u_tamtam , to worldnews in China’s CO2 emissions may be falling already, in a watershed moment for the world
    @u_tamtam@programming.dev avatar

    One can hope! Or maybe that’s just the economy slowing down, as anyone walking the streets of Shanghai pre and post COVID could tell.

    BURN , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting

    And this is why we’re treated like criminals every time we leave grocery stores here. Everywhere has heavily kitted up security (though I don’t believe armed) that stops you every time you try to leave.

    Grocery shopping is a stressful occasion now

    curiousaur ,

    Where do you live?

    dylanTheDeveloper ,
    @dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

    Kazakhstan

    BURN ,

    West coast of the US. Their default mode is to treat everyone like everything in their cart is stolen

    curiousaur ,

    I live in California and have never experienced this. Maybe it’s just my white privilege?

    interceder270 ,

    Lick that boot.

    Feathercrown ,

    Say that catchphrase

    sebinspace , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting

    I’d imagine because the people tasked with enforcing it are also middle class. I’m sure as shit not paid enough to intervene.

    sagrotan , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting
    @sagrotan@lemmy.world avatar

    … and another thing where I was apparently a trendsetter

    TwoGems , to world in ‘I walked out with a £150 trolley – it was so easy’: the rise of middle-class shoplifting
    @TwoGems@lemmy.world avatar

    I’d let them, too. These prices are more criminal than her walking out with a trolley.

    killeronthecorner , to world in UK braces for ‘increasingly wintry’ weather as cold front arrives from Scandinavia
    @killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

    Getting an energy monitor that tells me how much energy I’ve used to the penny was a fucking terrible idea.

    If you’re thinking of doing this, do yourself a favour and just stick your head in the sand.

    throw4w4y5 ,

    mine is unplugged and in the drawer where it will stay until spring.

    Gradually_Adjusting ,
    @Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

    If EDF thinks I can afford to heat my flat this winter, they’ve got another thing coming. I am not too proud to live in my fuzziest pyjamas until March

    throw4w4y5 ,

    clingfilm on every window.

    _xDEADBEEF , to world in UK braces for ‘increasingly wintry’ weather as cold front arrives from Scandinavia

    As long as it stops sodding raining. Yesterday was the 1st dry day for as long as I can remember. Of course its raining today

    Stamau123 , to world in BBC’s Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in Gaza hospital report but has ‘no regrets’

    Oh well as long as you don’t feel bad about it man

    DarkGamer , to world in BBC’s Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in Gaza hospital report but has ‘no regrets’
    @DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

    His inaccuracies: blaming Israel for the al-Shifa missile attack, and referring to the hospital as, "flattened."

    I've seen people repeating these inaccuracies constantly on Lemmy.

    ArbitraryValue ,

    I admit, I was surprised at how many people are indifferent to the truth (at best) regarding this conflict. I know some people in real life who see a lot of antisemitism in modern American society and I used to think they were paranoid but now I’m not sure what else could be motivating this sort of motivated reasoning.

    agressivelyPassive ,

    The problem is, that Israel made it relatively easy to fall for these stories by doing similar things for real in the past.

    So you’ve got a credible source (BBC) reporting something that’s not really unheard of (i.e. kind of plausible) and that’s happening to align with what you’ve already suspected. Bam, rumor is born.

    BTW, you had the same mechanism shortly after the attacks with the “Hamas beheaded babies” stories.

    NoIWontPickaName ,

    Beheaded babies and the IDF saying “we have lied before but not this time.” really muddies the water.

    SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

    Criticizing Israel’s atrocities is not antisemitism it’s being a decent human being.

    WidowsFavoriteSon ,

    But being a Hamas terrorist boltlicker is pretty shitty.

    SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

    I don’t support Hamas, why would you think that?

    gaylord_fartmaster ,

    You don’t know what could possibly cause people to have an anti-Israel bias other than antisemitism? Maybe a history book?

    HeartyBeast ,
    @HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

    He didn't blame the attach on Israel. He did say it had been flattened.

    DarkGamer ,
    @DarkGamer@kbin.social avatar

    His claim of it being flattened caused the BBC to report that it was likely Israel who did it because they were the only ones who had ordinance powerful enough to level a hospital:

    In the first story about the hospital on the BBC on Oct 17, correspondent Jon Donnison suggested Israel was behind the blast. Speaking shortly after 8pm on BBC News, he said: “It’s hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli airstrike or several airstrikes.”

    killeronthecorner ,
    @killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

    So you agree that he did not say that IDF were to blame?

    NoIWontPickaName ,

    Do you mean the Al-Alhi Baptist missile or did one happen to Al-shifa now too?

    I_Has_A_Hat , to world in BBC’s Jeremy Bowen admits he ‘got it wrong’ in Gaza hospital report but has ‘no regrets’

    “Should I accept responsibility? No, I’ll just double down.”

    Potatos_are_not_friends ,

    “Just a mild oopsie and all. No harm (for me).”

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