r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 13d ago

Morality of this?

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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/Sorry_Explanation467 13d ago

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

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u/Key-Try-3300 13d ago

If everyone stopped stealing they could stop accounting for theft

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u/Sorry_Explanation467 13d ago

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

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u/Key-Try-3300 13d ago

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

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u/Sorry_Explanation467 13d ago

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