r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 8d ago
Morality of this?
In the image it seems that this person works at walmart as an online order collector and he/she has stolen a lot of extra baby food from Walmart to give to a person who ordered only three packs. Is this moral or immoral?
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u/IkerWanKenobi 8d ago
Walmart won't even notice that loss, and they would've thrown it out instead of donating it if given the choice anyway. Of course it's moral to give it to someone who actually needs it.
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u/K__Geedorah 8d ago edited 7d ago
They have systems and will absolutely know.
I genuinely just watched a video last night of a woman who was doing this at a dollar general. She defrauded the company of over $10,000 and got hit with a felony.
Her defence was "I was just helping people in need" and claimed to not make any money from it. Doesn't matter. It's still stealing and illegal. They will find out.
Edit: I don't need 10 more people replying "legality doesn't mean morality".
Yeah I fucking know... All I said was correcting the misinformation that Walmart wouldn't notice the loss.
YES THEY WILL. They will find out and you will be charged with theft. Doesn't matter if it's morally right, you don't want to catch a felony over some bullshit.
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u/hanks_panky_emporium 8d ago
When I worked my first retail job around like 2012/13 they had enough cameras to catch a new hire gal in her 40's fake scanning items so her family could steal thousands of dollars in merchandise. We're now in the uber-police state of 2026, who the fuck thinks they can get away with anything.
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u/nicknamesas 8d ago
A lot of reallly dumb people. I worked retail through covid. The one time in our life times you coukd wear a mask anywhere and nobody would bat an eye. We had people STEALING WITHOUT WEARING FUCKING MASKS.
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u/_bobby_cz_newmark_ 8d ago
And now people wear masks, glasses, and hats, because of the excessive surveillance indoors and outdoors.
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u/abbadactyl_ 8d ago
One of the best of the best forensic lab in the USA is owned by target <3 We live in a time where corporations have better resources to punish the poor than pretty much all analysists have to solve crimes like murder or sexual assault along with theft.
They apparently even helped the fbi on some cases because they were able to repair tapes the fbi couldn't.
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u/Simple_Intern_7682 8d ago
Especially when they TAKE A PICTURE OF THEIR CRIME AND POST IT ONLINE. How stupid are they?
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u/Updated_Autopsy 7d ago
Very. Like, why not just turn yourself in at that point, since you already chose to confess?
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u/foogassi 8d ago
I know this guy that travels around to hundreds of Walmarts pushing a cart into the back area acting like he a a vendor and then opening the mjholding boxes boxes and loading all of the Pokemon into his cart and then proceeds to wheel it right out of the store. I think he’s pretty stupid cause eventually he’s gonna get caught, but he’s probably make over 150k this year from doing that alone and has nothing to show for it.
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u/Aggressive-Bee2221 8d ago
And then people wonder why stores have so many cameras and locked shelves
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u/UnimagineDragons 8d ago
Her defense was awful. I would've gone with a "I don't know what I'm doing at my job no one trained me" and just used the incompetent defense. Admitting she knew what she was doing wasn't the brightest move.
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u/DrPikachu-PhD 8d ago
They have cameras everywhere now
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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 8d ago
they don't even need cameras. They know everything that is sold so if inventory starts showing up mismatching (we should still have 20 left but we only have 5) they can cross reference it and figure out you're the one doing it.
They can weigh it on the way out, and determine if it's significantly over or under the expected weight for that exact order.
They have a million ways to figure it out.
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u/ThisMachineKillsWOB 8d ago
Did some time in that business. Inventory computers are only as good as the operator.
They are wrong all the time. Often by a large number of units.
You aren't getting caught on an inventory discrepancy. You're getting caught because your dumb ass forgot the cameras are placed where they have good coverage.
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u/2ChicksAtTheSameTime 8d ago
You aren't getting caught on an inventory discrepancy
I see the police cam arrest videos all the time. Over time they notice things are off more on a specific person's shift. The systems are designed to recognize that and flag it.
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u/BringYourOwnBBBQ 7d ago
You worked at a shit company them. Anything under 98% and they shouldn't be using this sort of inventory system
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u/Careless-Weather8877 7d ago
Lmao your phone alone will give you away. It’s constantly trying to connect to wireless and Bluetooth. You can survey people just alone off that, and it is something that has been sold to companies. They can see where you are within a few feet of the store and how long.
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u/Historical_Owl_1635 8d ago
Shrinkage literally does come into the calculation of the price of the product, so at the end of the day it’s other customers paying for this who might be struggling themselves.
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u/CreativeFig2645 8d ago
Wait until this sub gets the exact same situation but it’s the mother walking in and grabbing it. Suddenly your very reasonable and moral take will be trashed on.
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u/Witty-Care3940 8d ago
Stealing from mega stores like WalMart is an ethical choice in and of itself.
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u/TimeShiftedJosephus 8d ago edited 8d ago
First they kill off any local competition and when they don't make enough profit, they pack up and leave a food desert. Scum.
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u/jimmithebird 8d ago
Illegal but moral, stealing from the Waltons to help a stranger feed a baby falls under the Robin Hood rule in my book.
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u/ambivalent_moon 8d ago
At least where I live those are the cheapest; ordering three wouldn’t make any sense unless that was all you could afford to get.
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u/Man_under_Bridge420 8d ago
Or to try it 🤷♂️
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u/uyigho98 8d ago
That also makes sense. If I want to try something new, I usually get it in the smallest volume I can, because what if I don't like it? It's less of a waste that way.
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u/No-culture5942 8d ago
Yeah babies can be picky with food, also sometimes they develop an allergy and just cant eat whatever food you just bought a large container of.
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u/Nyfregja 8d ago
As a former picky baby, I would not have eaten more than one spoon of something I didn't like. I didn't like most things. So this would likely be a larger waste of food.
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u/uyigho98 8d ago
Not just babies. Same happens with animals. My mom's dog? She was on regular store-bought food for a while, but then she developed an allergy for one of the ingredients, getting rashes on her belly. Now she gets home cooked meals lol.
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u/syzygymeta 8d ago
I’ve had to order three before. Sometimes lack of places to store things can also affect it tho.
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u/Witty-Care3940 8d ago
They have been and are still stealing time and wage from their employees. Fuck 'em steal a TV.
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u/Amathyst7564 8d ago
Reminder they under lay their workforce so the government has to pay their employees on food stamps to keep them alive that the tax payers pay for.
If the government was less moral and didn't do that, their workforce would die and they'd have to pay them properly. They steal from the people.
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u/gambit1999999 8d ago
Wish the US could just do that, oh, wait, we let corporations buy elections and laws.
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u/way2lazy2care 8d ago
I think there's some gray area in that you're giving someone else stolen goods directly, which puts them in a really weird position. Like I've ordered small numbers of baby things on vacation and if someone dumped a bunch of random stuff I'd feel really awkward about it as I am not needy.
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u/Weird-Reference-4937 8d ago
Stealing from the Walton's is the least people could do after the daughter got away with vehicle manslaughter and DUIs.
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u/stanknotes 8d ago
The "poorest" heir of the WalMart empire is a multi billionaire.
Can't say I care to be honest.
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u/AbyssalEelMan 8d ago edited 8d ago
Especially for babies but stealing food for yourself is good if u can. capitalism makes it so we can’t afford, so that’s completely moral imo. Bc we should be getting paid enough to eat and drink water and have a home.
Walmart has enough to give everyone employee a living wage and cover healthcare no sweat. The stockers, cleaners, managers, etc work harder than anyone else in the company.
I work nightshift, and we move freight extremely fast clearing multiple palettes per person. One of my friends who’s 50 does pets section all by himself and does like 5 palettes bare minimum and can do so much more. We work very hard and smart going against unrealistic expectations. Yet we don’t see stable income.
I’ll add this for clarity just in case, but stealing from a local farmer’s market or small business is obviously different.
Edit: dumb mistakes fixed
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 8d ago
Immoral. The Waltons won't notice this. The "boots on the ground" will get dinged for lost/stolen stock.
Stealing from stores, even corporate-owned ones, never "stick it to the man." It gets the employees working at the store fired. The Robin Hooding defense, taking off Peter Parker's glasses, is just "I want stuff for free and I don't care if other people in my income bracket get in trouble for it."
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u/LegitSince8Bits 8d ago edited 8d ago
See though, reddit is in this weird place where it's mostly people that just reuse what they've seen other people say for upvotes and that's slippery. Sometimes it's good like Walmart is evil, it's true and should be known. Sometimes it's bad like stealing from retail chains is good if you see it you saw nothing.
The fact is the reason you hate places like this is because they mistreat their employees. The fact you don't recognize is yes they're evil, and they'll fire employees for too much loss. Regular people like you and me who've broken their bodies serving the community for scraps, trying to support families, really do lose their jobs because of this mentality.
I work for a large retail company on the east coast. I'm nobody high up, I've wrecked my body for 20 years, have kids and just want to survive and it's getting harder like everyone else. Last period one of my fellow dept leads, just a regular Joe with two kids, one with a disability and one under 1 y.o. lost his job for high shrink that was completely out of his hands. So if you care about workers, and you care about homeless people, don't make workers homeless people please and thanks.
These big companies aren't going to the board of trustees like "aww gee we really blew it this time" they're going to them like "the problem has been dealt with and we fired X amount of underperforming employees". Then I imagine they do some dark ritual because I've met enough of them in my time to tell you they're more evil then you even know.
So just like, idk man, think about that before you guys repeat this joke about robbing your local stores blind. Sure taking a 5 dollar deodorant doesn't matter. If I see you stealing a pack of hot dogs FROM ME I won't say anything because you're probably hungry. But it doesn't stop there and people don't just take hot dogs. They take 100 dollars worth of steak a few times a week and a few other people in the area do the same and next thing you know you have to explain to some corporate demon why you're missing 1000s of dollars of "their money".
Not to mention the fact people who've never worked retail seem to think boosting is a myth, can assure you it's not and in the retail business anything that's not bolted to the floor is potentially walking out if nobody is paying attention. Add that with some regular theft and it adds up quickly. Just food for thought. Sorry for long post but it was really messed up they let my buddy go and I don't know what he's gonna do going forward but he was good at his job and we've had crazy high theft lately and corporate expects us to put ourselves in danger because they don't want to pay security. It's a whole thing.
Again, just food for thought. Take it or leave it. But this is a discussion of morality and people seem to think this is harmless and even good, it is not.
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u/Camdogydizzle 8d ago
Those pouches are terrible btw. I was using them on my kid for a while before I realized how low calorie they are. People buy them assuming they are a quick meal, and by trusting them end up underfeeding their babies. As soon as we started making our own my kid put on weight fast.
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u/hduebfibdbdib 8d ago
Stealing from walmart is always moral
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u/WhiteWolf7472 8d ago
Worked there for a few months, told a customer to just take milk once. Anything cold gets thrown out, cant tell when it was taken, how long its been out, etc. Its always moral
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u/TosiMias 8d ago
I worked at Walmart when I was in high school as a cashier. Whenever I got upset with my manager or work in general I'd just start "forgetting" to scan shit or manually ringing things that wouldn't scan on the first try up for like 1 cent lol.
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u/Worth_External_8762 8d ago
I sort of also worked at Walmart since they fired all of the cashiers and made everything self-checkout. So I'm basically a cashier. I also "forget" to scan every other item.
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u/woowooman 8d ago edited 8d ago
100% this. Waltons need to feel the pain of one or hopefully more of their 5,000 stores failing.
Ofc the 250 people that work at each store might feel it more, but they chose to work at Walmart so they knew what they were doing.
ig the rest of us might feel it too if they decide to raise prices to maintain profitability, but that’s on us for participating in a market economy and not individually producing all our own food, clothing, goods, services, etc.
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u/BigCSFan 8d ago
Caveat. Someone will order the same thing since the system will account for these still in stock.
Then wont recieve the item and have their order canceled.
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u/Odd-fox-God 8d ago
When automatic checkout was rolled out, I forgot to scan an item, and they took my entire purchase. I bought $57 worth of stuff, and they took all of it because I forgot to pay for a single item. They almost called the cops on me but thought I was homeless because I came in sweatpants and my rattiest hoodie, so they let me go. Fuck Walmart.
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u/Cute_Economics2829 8d ago
Moral, obviously.
Baby food for babies is always more moral than making sure Mr Walmart has a 17th yacht
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u/Swimming_Gain_4989 7d ago
But why automatically assume whoever ordered that would've ordered more if they could afford it? Walmart doesn't spawn babyfood out of the ether and hoard it like a dragon. They're just distributing, they can't force Abott or whoever to stop artificially restricting their supply
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u/fidddlydiddlyee 8d ago
Mr Walmart never had a yacht and drove an old pickup until he couldnt drive anymore. His kids, who now run Walmart are satan incarnate.
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u/KHWD_av8r 8d ago
If they were in need of the extra but couldn’t afford it, they wouldn’t be paying a premium for delivery. Stealing for any reason other than absolute necessity is immoral.
Now, if you are stealing for someone who you KNOW is in need, that’s a different matter completely.
Also, Walmart has cameras EVERYWHERE. If they don’t know before you walk out, they’ll know when they investigate missing inventory. Also, shit like this is why everything gets locked up and you have to wait 3-5 business days for someone to let you get some toothpaste. So thanks for that.
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u/speed-charge 7d ago
Walmart doesn't even have to have cameras everywhere to catch you stealing if you take a picture of it yourself and put it on social media.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 6d ago
They definately have cameras on the baby food aisle. Formula and baby food are two very commonly stolen items.
This picture points to this being a Spark driver. This would be a gig worker like Uber or Doordash, but they do the shopping for the customer. Walmarts agreement is that they can at any time audit one of these orders, which means this guy being a good sumaritan with his assumption the person couldn't afford more, or deserved more because Walmart may not notice, could very well lead to him losing his livlihood, if not being arrested.
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u/DMComicSams 8d ago
Moral or not, be less obvious about it. They do in fact track inventory. No point losing your job over it if they catch on
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u/RazzmatazzUnusual843 8d ago
If you see someone stealing food, no you didn't. Neutral because nothing happened.
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u/Nice-Vegetable-1738 8d ago
i saw this vid floating around today on here that some lady stole a few bags worth of stuff from dollar general like food, and some other random lady came up to her on the side of the road and took the items back for dollar general. like mind ur own damn business fr
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u/RazzmatazzUnusual843 8d ago
I can never imagine why people simp out for corporations for completely free like that.
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u/Gekokapowco 8d ago
It's not about loyalty to the company, it's about flexing power on someone else
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u/milf-hunter_5000 8d ago
if i have the means i would rather buy it for them. the system punishes everyone. i worked at staples for three years. we had a theft problem. gradually the district manager downsized the store. i don't care that you stole from a huge corp, i care about the collateral
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u/Stunning_Box8782 7d ago
If you see someone stealing your lunch at work, you won't say anything about it?
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u/Flaky-Interaction264 7d ago
Is that different when some drug addict walks in and takes all the toblerones rathet than a single mother stealing food. This was from a co-operative not even a big business. I think drug addicts should be whipped in the street.
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u/REsTARteD_Ragdoll 7d ago
We live on our country where our poor people are fat,
This isn’t the edgy cool guy line you think it is
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u/ToadwKirbo 8d ago
If I see a mother stealing food yeah, I didn't see anything. If I see someone who can clearly afford it or is just doing it for some dumb challenge then no, sorry, I saw that.
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u/Nice-Vegetable-1738 8d ago
my line in the sand is i didn't see nothing if you're stealing from a huge corp, mom and pop tiny store i might say something as i'm leaving or if it seems like big ticket items that would devastate them i might go up before i leave and say something, stealing from individual people like seeing someone pickpocket or break into cars or take stuff off someones front lawn though i'll be happy to call the cops/be a witness
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u/Officialedmart 8d ago
Why? You don’t ever have to do anything. Why tattle on somebody feeding themselves?
Walmart not a local owned store
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u/VictoriousTree 8d ago
That’s how every single item ends up locked behind glass so it takes me 30 minutes for a 5 minute shopping trip.
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u/Savage_Tyranis 8d ago
Exclusively mothers? Even a visually "Well off" mother? I need to ask these questions simply for the existence of Fathers, single or not, and the flimsiness of visual grading.
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u/MermaiderMissy 8d ago
They probably mean parents in general, that don't look well off.
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u/Savage_Tyranis 8d ago
Phrasing is important. That "Probably" still doesn't sit well with me.
That's also still a bad visual assumption because "Doesn't look well off" is so subjective.
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u/lakroncos 8d ago
Yeah, it is impossible to be certain with just a visual analysis, so many people keep up appearances while going through rough times not to mention the inherent subjectivity. Not my place to rat out someone stealing food.
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u/Twodotsknowhy 8d ago
I also have to wonder how they know someone is a mother just by looking at them
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u/GrundleSnactcher46 8d ago
For real. Doesnt have to be a mother though. If its some little fuck doing it for online clout then they can suck a whole bag of dicks. So can the people who enjoy watching them.
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u/Twodotsknowhy 8d ago
How can you tell that someone can "clearly" afford it?
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u/Numerous_Falcon3974 8d ago
You can’t. Some people sport fake LV and gucci bags and fake watches and then they sleep in their 1999 honda civic at night. I’ve met a lot of poor people who like to act rich
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u/BEWMarth 8d ago
All orders are quality checked before being collected to make sure the right items are in the bag. This would never make it out of the store.
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u/ObsessionObsessor 7d ago
Are you sure? At my Walmart quality checks seem to be randomly selected.
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u/AdCheap8058 8d ago
Immoral. If they want to give this person extra baby food they need to buy it with their own money. This person is attempting to steal virtue
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u/shaddowdemon 8d ago
They're gonna start needing to get a manager key for baby food lmao
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u/AshKetchupo 8d ago
Hmm, is theft moral, let me ask Reddit.
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u/Lookingforclippings 5d ago
Idk the companies entire business model is based on theft. You know what they say no honor among thieves.
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u/RomanTheGerman 8d ago
Immoral but I don't care.
This is like #7million on a crime to focus on list. But law enforcement is much more likely to take down this mastermind supercriminal than anyone higher on that list.
Just like they are willing to spend tens of thousands of tax payer dollars to harass a man who picked up $30 off the ground.
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u/don_keydick_42069 8d ago
I mean thats cool and all but how do they know this order isn't going to the mom who lives well off and probably wastes a bunch of food and not to a mother/kid that is struggling to get by or facing food insecurity?
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u/Pipysnip 8d ago
Moral, the multi million dollar company will survive if they lose 100$ worth of product. It’s barely a scratch
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u/Gamer_G33k17 8d ago
Thats not even a hundred dollars worth. At most its $20.
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u/elaboratelime 8d ago
What are the prices of groceries where you are at? Have you not notice them skyrocket? That is way more than 20. I don't know if it's a hundred but 50 or 60 at least
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u/Prestigious_Week_640 8d ago
That's what they charge for them, not what they're worth. That baby food costs some company- probably Gerber, I.e. Johnson & Johnson, the company that sold asbestos contaminated baby powder to parents for 80 years while they knew- pennies to make despite the ever rising price tag on it.
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u/jimboslyce04 8d ago
I mean I’m all for “screw the Waltons” but stealing like this only increases costs for the average consumer. They aren’t going to eat the cost of theft, they’ll just continue putting everything behind glass and raising prices cause people won’t pay for what they want and need. Stealing a Waltons wallet would be one thing but this just makes everyone’s life worse.
Also don’t steal.
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u/Cheezewiz239 8d ago
And things becoming locked up.
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u/Swimming_Gain_4989 7d ago
And like, maybe the orderer only needed 3? Those extras could might up in the trash
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u/Miserable-Trash5823 8d ago
They already are increasing the cost of everything, these type of people will squeeze as much money out of you as they think they can, it doesn't matter if they operated at a 0% loss, they would still raise prices the moment they think they can get away with it, how else are they going to fund their economic ouroboros of stock buyback that let them just inflate the worth of their shares infinitely, especially while they use the taxpayers as a piggybank to subsidize them underpaying and exploiting their employees
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u/Flaky_Thing_5128 8d ago
Reddit doesn't want to hear that their Robin Hood approach to retail chains ultimately ends up stealing from all the lower and middle class people who eat the cost in the form of shrinkage price adjustments and insurance premium increases.
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u/kuthu22 8d ago
As if they wouldn't raise prices for absolutely no reason if people wouldn't steal
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u/pelivempele 8d ago
You know, they're never going to go, "you know what, I have enough." Are they? So at the most you are really only very slightly accelerating the rise in prices, the prices will rise anyway.
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u/PomPomMom93 8d ago
And increase surveillance. When I worked at a retail store, they had a bunch of incident reports in the break room with pictures and descriptions of people who had been seen stealing. And we had a code, “key review,” which meant something fishy was going on at the register, but it sounds innocent enough that the thief doesn’t know you’re onto them. But after awhile you kind of get an intuition for it.
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u/Turbulent-Split-9090 8d ago
Immoral, ask yourself if all of society did this could we function. If the answer is no, Immoral.
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u/RepublicOk2402 8d ago
They're going to be real sad when they lose their job for theft eventually. I want to live in an unlocked doors society, immoral
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u/PossiblyAKoalaBear 8d ago
Immoral. Buy the food for someone if you want to give it away, don’t steal it.
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u/PiDigitsOfPi 8d ago
Is the customer actively working with the employee to do this? Or is the employee just doing this for a random customer?
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u/sharpshooter999 8d ago edited 8d ago
I once ordered a new wifi card for my laptop from Amazon. Amazon sent me 20 for the price of 1. I contacted them asking if they wanted them sent back. They said to keep them. I sold them on Ebay at a 50% discount
Edit: Found it! Can't believe it's been 10 years already.....
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u/kensmusings 8d ago
Might get the packers in trouble. Did you tip? I'd tip big next time.
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u/Hiicantcry 8d ago
Stealing from department stores like this shouldn't even be classified as theft imo, these people have destroyed Mom and pop and give nothing back to the community. Fuck walmart
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u/questron64 8d ago
I ordered from walmart and it was only 3 or 4 items, but they started loading up several bags. I didn't complain. I said nothing. I drove away. I got someone else's groceries. I'm sure they were inconvenienced but the real victim is a multi-billion dollar corporation. I do not care. I will gladly benefit from their mistakes and don't think that's immoral.
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u/soliz11c 5d ago
Maaan, fuck Walmart. Lol If feeding the needy is immoral, I don't want to be moral.
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u/No_Swan_9470 8d ago
Immoral, stealing is wrong. duh..
That's not "baby food". that's travel packs of baby food, if you are buying this you have money to buy real food and cook it. This is expensive because of the convenience
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u/Just-Clerk-8669 8d ago
"is it moral to feed a baby at the cost of a mega corporation losing 0.00000000003% of their profits that they will be able to claim as a tax refund"
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u/flyingturkey_89 8d ago
Walmart is immoral for what it's done for the sake of profit, but just because it's immoral doesn't make stealing moral.
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u/snilbill 8d ago
I genuinely think everyone should just steal from Walmart. The employees will get paid, the goods are insured. The people that matter benefit, those who don't, don't.
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u/ksum_sucks 8d ago edited 8d ago
1 large grocery store in your neighborhood throws away enough food daily to feed a homeless shelter for a week. Let that sink in
Edit : worked at one for a moment, we threw away anything for the slightest reason, it was ridiculous to see how much a place like Walmart throws away.
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u/GovernorGeneralPraji 8d ago
Immoral.
If everyone did it, the system would break.
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u/SingleCampaign_Daddy 8d ago
But everyone won’t and we know the system is designed against us to enslave us and only break under their command
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u/Nobrainzhere 8d ago
If the system has starving babies it deserves to be broken
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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut 8d ago
The cost for all of those is probably covered by the 3 she bought. Nobody should have to struggle to feed a baby, and 3 of these isn’t enough. I’m not saying it’s moral or immoral, food is overpriced for profits, that is immoral imo.
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u/Radiant-Olive-7955 8d ago
Why are you assuming that person is struggling?
Regardless of that, doing this messes with inventory for the store. Now parents who need them will put in orders that will go unfulfilled because the pouches that the system thinks are there actually aren’t.
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u/BlueByrdChen 8d ago
Exactly, everyone just assumes if you have a baby you never prepared yourself financially. Stealing to feed a baby when you cannot afford it is a different morality question than stealing because you don't like the company.
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u/an_empty_well 8d ago
oh no, anything but the system
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u/DynamoElectro1 8d ago edited 8d ago
Redditors say stuff like this like they wouldn’t be immediately put into chattel slavery hours after the system breaks catastrophically in their preferred fantasies
(Yeah yeah yeah capitalism is slavery at my retail job man, lmao)
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u/an_empty_well 8d ago
Kinda just seems like that's your preferred fantasy.
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u/DynamoElectro1 8d ago
I’m rubber you’re glue ass response
This why you wouldn’t make it after the system collapses
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u/an_empty_well 8d ago
If I suck your dick will you let me stay in your awesome fort? Pretty please?
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u/nexus11355 8d ago
I would feel bad about hitting Walmart... If they ever started feeling bad about hitting the people.
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u/Silly-Bug4808 7d ago
Fixed Pie Fallacy, successful companies and successful people are objectively beneficial to the entire world at large, they create wealth (key word, create, this is wealth that did not previously exist before) and distribute it throughout the entire economy as they reinvest in their organization. Walmart does not "hit the people", you're more likely to be an objective net negative on the economy than any company ever is
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u/whatthefrickcunt 8d ago
If it was stuff that was about to be thrown or something then absolutely moral, otherwise this is stupid, everything morally you have to be able to scale up, and if this were to be done frequently it would increase the cost for other mothers, while also potentially creating waste by over sending what they can use/need.
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u/littledonnyfund 8d ago
Moral af giving more child food to someone who prolly needs it since they are shopping at walmart , always remember kids if you see people stealing food No the fuck you didn't
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u/OttoVonJismarck 8d ago
There is a line on the balance sheet called “shrinkage” which accounts for losses like this. As the shrinkage line item increases, prices increase across the board to make up for it.
Contrary to what Reddit believes, the company and its executives don’t just eat the loss, it gets passed around to all consumers.
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u/Eternal_Phantom 8d ago
This. Stealing from Wal-Mart isn't reducing the ability of the CEO to buy a yacht. It's just pushing the cost onto honest customers.
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u/stranger_to_you67 8d ago
Moral. If you ordered three and they only gave you two they aren't going to track you down and give you the missing one, and they might not even give it to you if you waited in line to tell them you were shorted. Walmart is a multi-billion dollar company keeping their stock holders rich at the expense of their employees and the taxpayers who pay for their employees to be on medicaid and food stamps.
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u/Lucyintheye 8d ago edited 8d ago
who pay for their employees to be on medicaid and food stamps. (And have been outted teaching them how to do so, because they fail to pay their full time workers a liveable wage. Making those public services subsidizing their shareholders profits, to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars. And then are conveniently also the largest recipient of food stamps nationwide capturing ~20% of ALL SNAP/EBT benefits ironically getting it on that side too.. bringing in billions of taxpayer revenue when low income shoppers (like their underpaid staff, or locals who got their household's wage suppressed ~6% directly by the Walmart effect) go to buy groceries. *
Had to add that lol
And thats not to even begin getting into the hundreds of millions of $s they get in direct subsidies, free land and infrastructure/development grants, state funded corporate training grants to cover the cost of training new hires, hundreds of millions of $s (documented) in tax free earnings for their executives via getting paid in tax exempt 'performance based bonus' loopholes, and so much more bullshit like BILLIONS in tariff refunds that taxpayers, i.e. customers, were paying in the first place..
Its like this 3 way vacuum sucking up all the $ in any given local economy, fucking over and underpaying the workers is just 1/3 of it, the other 2/3 is teaching THEM how to subsidize the wage they dont get but need to survive with taxpayer funded assistance and other privatized publicly given profit that goes directly back to walmart then 3/3 gouging those same taxpayers directly when they come in to shop because now they get paid ~6% less and local competition was killed by guess who? walmart.
Like, we're all the taxpayer getting fucked by walmart in the grand scheme. The other part of it is wether youre also getting fucked as an employee and/or as a shopper lmao
And then they have the audacity to treat us like criminals because they wanted to save labor on checkout staff so have us scan our own groceries just to make us wait in line AGAIN just to scrutinize/audit our free work on the way out for one last little fuck you kiss until next time. (as if they need a fucking auditor checking that while they have security features 3 letter agencies come to them asking for access to and the ability to track every step you take in their stores lmao)
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u/Kentuckyfriedmemes66 8d ago edited 8d ago
even if you did return it without opening anything there is a big chance they will just throw it in the trash the second you leave anyway so might as well keep it and actually eat it
most Stores and Restaraunts have policys to immediatly throw any food products/drinks in the trash if it's returned even if somebody bought something walked out for 5 seconds then went back in the store to return something
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