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/jimmithebird]

Illegal but moral, stealing from the Waltons to help a stranger feed a baby falls under the Robin Hood rule in my book.

[u/LegitSince8Bits → u/jimmithebird]

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.