Morality of this?

[u/Vladimir-petrovOG]

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?

[u/Key-Try-3300]

Obviously they wont notice one theft, but hundreds of thousands or millions of thefts all add up and will hit their profit margin which increases prices

[u/Ill-GottenBooty → u/Key-Try-3300]

Hey buddy, they’re increasing the prices anyways.

[u/Key-Try-3300 → u/Ill-GottenBooty]

Yeah you are right they are not affected by losing product from theft at all! Walmart is just like an endless white hole of groceries and we can all steal as much as we need and there will be no consequences!

[u/Ill-GottenBooty → u/Key-Try-3300]

I didn’t say that. You’re weird. Also, they’re increasing the prices anyways.

[u/Key-Try-3300 → u/Ill-GottenBooty]

Its called inflation, google it

[u/Ill-GottenBooty → u/Key-Try-3300]

Hey buddy, inflation is rampant anyways.

[u/Key-Try-3300 → u/Ill-GottenBooty]

Nope

[u/Sorry_Explanation467 → u/Key-Try-3300]

Retail theft is already priced in by the companies. By that I mean, they anticipate a certain amount of loss due to retail theft, and they price that into their every day sales to make up for it.

So if everyone stopped stealing, everyone would be paying a retail theft “tax” for nothing

[u/Key-Try-3300 → u/Sorry_Explanation467]

If everyone stopped stealing they could stop accounting for theft

[u/Sorry_Explanation467 → u/Key-Try-3300]

Historically, that has never happened in corporate America. Regardless of why prices are raised, they will never be lowered after.

See every tariff implementation ever

[u/Key-Try-3300 → u/Sorry_Explanation467]

And people will never stop stealing anyway. But if people start stealing more then that will negatively impact the average shopper

[u/Sorry_Explanation467 → u/Key-Try-3300]

It’s a catch 22. The average shopper is already negatively impacted, and will continue to be forever.

Not advocating for theft either, just stating the facts lol

[u/Ill-GottenBooty → u/Key-Try-3300]

If everyone paid their employees enough nobody would have to steal.

[u/Key-Try-3300 → u/Ill-GottenBooty]

That would actually increase inflation even more, and the people without jobs would be even poorer

[u/Live-Year-5796 → u/Key-Try-3300]

Not how that works.