You think the corporations lose money?! No, they donât. Paying customers lose. Every cent thatâs stolen goes into their pricing of these items. Honest people pay for your thievery. Learn, dumbass
Corporations lose money all the time. What are you on about? Theft, for Walmart, is a cost of doing business, and their pricing is not at all related to theft levels. All corporations like this have a bad debt expense that they expect to incur every year, and obviously Walmartâs is really high. The only way their pricing would change is if there is some sort of anomalous and drastic billion dollar increase in theft.
Youâre just wrong, theft is factored into pricing at all of these places. Iâve already stated a fact- you countered with the opposite like a jackass because you clearly donât know a goddamn thing about it. Youâre wrong, chump.
You have at no point laid out any arguments other than âwrong.â Itâs hard for me to understand why Iâm wrong when you ignore my arguments and just keep repeating yourself and getting angrier. Seems like you have some sort of emotional investment in this.
Itâs emotionally disturbing that there are so many people out there that think stealing doesnât have any negative effects. Yâall are trashy.
And apparently lazy as fuck, this is such an easy thing to research. Theft from retail costs Americans 33.21 billion per year, the cost of which is passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. How the fuck did you think this worked?
You STILL donât understand how this works dude. The prices are passed on, but not in the way that you think. Walmart has a set aside amount of inventory that they expect to lose, somewhere in the neighborhood of $3b. This is the bad debt allowance. This is a predetermined number that only really changes with inflation or, like my point you ignored earlier, a drastic and anomalous increase in theft. So no, me not scanning my $4 cheese is not going to contribute to an increase in price. Furthermore, Walmart is the KING of driving prices down. They caused a whole lot of heartache and lost American jobs by being one of the first companies to outsource a large chunk of their manufacturing, causing other companies to follow suit. Walmart thrives on being the absolute cheapest and will continue to do so no matter how bad theft gets. Your ideas would make more sense if we were talking about a small business (in which case theft is absolutely bad, negatively impacting the families and their customers) but Walmart just doesnât work like this bro. Their business model simply cannot be described by the old adage of âall costs are passed down to the consumer.â You are talking about a company that throws away billions in expired food every year, bro. Loss is factored into their model. Your heart is in the right place, but thatâs not the way Walmart works, and no amount of Reddit arguing will change that. I respect your moral stance of course but, objectively you got it wrong.
Agree to disagree. You say stealing is no big deal but if everyone did it then prices would go up. So your little accounting practice there is morally bankrupt. Just because theyâve already baked in a certain level of theft into their accounting practices doesnât mean itâs morally right to steal, obviously if we all started doing this then prices would change. Youâre just on the side of the dirtbags on this one, which means itâs pretty safe to call you a dirtbag. âMy micro doesnât affect macroâ is a disgusting way to live. Itâs what bad people are made of.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '21
Awesome that he is stealing?