T3G
Senior Member
While true when viewed from the business owner perspective, the counter argument to that is that stealing from a major corporation doesn't punish corporate, but only the employees working there making minimum wage, because the allegedly educated people at corporate seem to think that, because their sales are down and they can cut hours of their employees for whom they are supposed to be responsible, my landlord will cut rent, and my stomach will cut the amount of food I need to survive, too. So one group isn't more or less deserving of pity than the other, in my book.In the aftermath of COVID there was a small movement amongst a small group that basically said it was fine to steal from corps like Loblaws because, loosely, they're stealing from us, too. Obviously this isn't me advocating for theft, but i'm going to feel less bad about thefts at Loblaws than at Joe's Convenience.
Of course, as someone who worked at Home Depot for 4 years, I can say that the biggest enemies to our sales were the actual managers, who routinely issued insane markdowns on slow moving merch (I have a picture on my camera roll of a shelving unit reduced from $344 to $50 for this reason), and had zero standards about returns, which led to all kinds of unsellable items being returned if a customer threw a sufficiently large tantrum, including used plungers.
I guess my main thesis is here is that people really suck lol