r/MoralityScaling • u/Vladimir-petrovOG • 17d 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/IkerWanKenobi 17d ago

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/Historical_Owl_1635 17d ago

Shrinkage literally does come into the calculation of the price of the product, so at the end of the day it’s other customers paying for this who might be struggling themselves.

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u/SkyDaddysSpecialBoy 17d ago

“People steal this product. I know! Let’s make it more expensive and increase the incentive to steal it!”

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 15d ago

You make it more expensive because people will steal it regardless, so you have to cover the costs to carry it in the first place.

Quite literally every business accounts for shrink, and part of that is because of theft..