punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netM to Shoplifting@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago‘Maybe we cried too much’: Walgreens hints it exaggerated shoplifting surgewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squareSpiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI think a great example of “organized theft” is here: https://www.insider.com/man-con-home-depot-300000-store-credit-refund-doors-2023-8 Where in under a year using fake ids a man stole 300k from Home Depot, I feel like this stuff gets incorrectly conflated with stealing a loaf of bread or even a whole shopping cart of food or soap as if it was the same thing.
minus-squarepunkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago 300k Thats like 0.002% of Home Depots profits in 2022. Just to put this number into some perspective.
I think a great example of “organized theft” is here: https://www.insider.com/man-con-home-depot-300000-store-credit-refund-doors-2023-8
Where in under a year using fake ids a man stole 300k from Home Depot, I feel like this stuff gets incorrectly conflated with stealing a loaf of bread or even a whole shopping cart of food or soap as if it was the same thing.
Thats like 0.002% of Home Depots profits in 2022. Just to put this number into some perspective.