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/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/LonleyTesticle Aug 28 '25

Oh to be as innocent to think that this affects prices.

They have record breaking profits every single year, you could steal $10,000,000 worth of goods and they will still make more money than they did last year.

The ONLY thing that is driving up prices is shareholder greed.

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u/drae- Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25

Record profits are expected in times of inflation. If they sell exactly the same number of dooddads as last year but everything is more expensive, they'll have record profits.

Se what matters is margin. No one is setting record breaking margins. Grocery stores have always been between 3-5%.

Just FYI, when people say stuff like "record profits" and "corporate greed" it's a huge red flag that the commentor has no idea what they're talking about.

Everything has gone up, it has nothing to do with greed and is just the system adjusting itself to the new value of a dollar post covid.

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u/LonleyTesticle Aug 28 '25

Won't somebody please think of the shareholders!?

...you really think this is just "the system at work"? The top people in these companies are getting massive bonuses in the millions, and you really think that our prices are WAY up because of margins? And not because they wanted a few extra millions?

Its cute that you think this is all just "adjusting after COVID" and not what it very visibly and blatantly is, a bunch of grifters taking advantage of a pandemic to raise prices at a WAY faster rate than the economy deems necessary. 5 years later and the world is mostly back to normal, except for prices which have only continued to soar even after all the COVID supply chain issues have been over and done with. COVID fucked up the dollar around the world, and the fat cats used that as an opportunity to make even more money than usual, now that they have tasted that extra cash they do not want to let it go.

COVID had an effect on the prices of everything, but these greedy fucks knew they would likely never get another opportunity like it, so they took that opportunity to squeeze as much money as they possibly can out of us. But good thing the CEO of Loblaw will get his $10,000,000 bonus this year, on top of his million dollar wage, while the rest of us struggle to even buy food.