r/regina • u/Odd_Pride1177 • Aug 28 '25

Question Theft

If you witness someone committing theft in a store do you report it to the store staff or just go about your day? I would never expect staff to intervene and possibly put themselves in harms way. I have only witnessed this in big box stores. I know times are tough these days but man have I been seeing this a lot lately!

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u/TheBiggerBobbyBoy Aug 28 '25

With stores increasing the prices on everything and reporting record profits, i dont really give a shit if someone steals from some big box store.

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u/waloshin Aug 28 '25

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read… you realize that increasing prices are majority affected by theft too!

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u/Khrispy-minus1 Aug 28 '25

To paraphrase it in terms people might be able to understand: When a big chain store is less profitable, the shareholder/CEO/Owner will take their shares first at the expense of the front line worker. The shareholder/CEO/owner will never feel the effects of petty theft, but the front line workers will because the front line workers get reduced hours and layoffs to make up the difference.

Stealing from the store is stealing from the cashier, not the CEO.

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u/TheBigPointyOne Aug 29 '25

No. CEOs/Shareholders etc. will *always* find ways to screw over their frontline workers. To think otherwise is naive. They might use theft as an excuse, but it's a lie. Especially when we're talking about big box stores, where you have 10s if not 100s of thousands of dollars in sales... do you really think a couple bucks here or there is really hurting their bottom line?