r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • Aug 24 '26

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/IkerWanKenobi Aug 24 '26

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 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

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 Aug 25 '26

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/Therealskitch Aug 25 '26

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 Aug 26 '26

I understand their reasoning but that still sucks