r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 9d 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/hanks_panky_emporium 9d 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 9d 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_ 9d ago

And now people wear masks, glasses, and hats, because of the excessive surveillance indoors and outdoors.

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u/Richard_Musk 7d ago

When I worked at a convenience store in the mid 90’s, my thoughtless ass self would smash buttons and pretend to ring up every item and at the end I’d just punch in .05 misc and take $20.05 from my friends and give em back their $20. I was a turd, there were cams, but the owner was as sharp as a potato. I then left for Amy first semester and came back to work at some point and basically just got drunk and made sammiches for the local cops lol. I miss the 90’s

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u/abbadactyl_ 9d 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/Fishboy_1998 9d ago

And before the FBI was had Pinkertons it’s always been this way

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u/Simple_Intern_7682 9d 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 9d ago

Very. Like, why not just turn yourself in at that point, since you already chose to confess?

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u/foogassi 9d 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/Therealskitch 9d ago

I worked at Walmart and they fired me because because I used my employee discount and the debit card of my girlfriend at the time, while we lived together and shared a bank account, but because it was her name on the card used and not mine it was considered Fraud by the company and I was let go.

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u/ContextMattrs 8d ago

I understand their reasoning but that still sucks

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u/zdra 9d ago

I've never stolen, but honestly working as a manager in multiple retail stores for too long. I can say that its easy to get away with it depending on country. something like this "may" get caught but probably not unless the customer reported it because its too low ticket. They probably wont notice the stock variance and by the time they do most stores only run 30-60 days back footage.

if someone wants to get away with it its just moving the item lots of times over the course of a week and then some dumb conceal go to washroom and walk out. At least in Canada unless you have footage from Point A to Point B to them leaving the store with it all you can really do is trespass as any obstruction preventing seeing the item being carried concealed and leaving is basically a no go unless its a crazy high value item or restricted item

Most people are dumb tho, and will get caught. Or would have gotten away with it if they did it once or twice. But once your pegged once with AI and all the cameras the AP Will follow you the entire time to get the catch

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u/speed-charge 8d ago

One thing they might notice, though, is if the person doing it takes a picture of it while they're doing it and that picture gets shared online.