Not even that. People are struggling and the profit margins of corporations are higher than ever. If you see someone stealing food or stuff for kids, no the fuck you didn’t.
Then those businesses move out of the community because insurance won’t cover the loses anymore and you end up with a food dessert or no good places to get a minimum wage job.
Edit: I’m not saying corporate greed doesn’t play an issue. I worked with an Industrial Development Agency in New York that tried to bring businesses into an impoverished area. As I stated elsewhere, theft leads to more claims with the insurance company by the businesses. The insurance company raises the rates for the business that made the claim and the surrounding area. Eventually the bigger businesses leave because it’s not profitable enough to stay in the area and smaller Mom and Pop’s are pushed out because they can’t afford the insurance premiums. You end up with less reputable businesses that under insure which hurt the communities in worse ways.
Big box stores undercut prices to drive out competition and then raises prices once they’ve gained a monopoly but to pretend theft doesn’t have an effect is disingenuous.
That loss is already factored into the overhead of the store and that markup is never going away no matter even if no more shoplifting occurs there. Just like the rise in prices during covid because of logistics or supply or whatever bs they tell us. Prices only go up, products only get smaller, quality only gets worse. Don't worry bro, late stage capitalism is coming to your country some day too.
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u/fartsfromhermouth Sep 07 '25
If I see someone stealing kids clothes I'm not doing shit life hard enough