I just bought groceries at Kroger and at the self checkout they flagged me as a potential shoplifter for having my helmet in my basket
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"What happened?" are you for real?
Did you not read any newspaper, watch any news, or generally exist in society since 2016?
First you decided to bazooka yourselves in the foot with the Brexit vote, then went through a revolving clown show of increasingly bizarre political sideshow pieces that pretended to be PM, before finally opting to negotiate an EU exist that was about as disastrous as it could've been for your economy.
Add in the fact that the entire world has been turning to shit around you due to despotic leaders trying to rape their neighbours/the climate/populace/actual kids/everything joined by a cabal of evil billionaires who are gleefully destroying democracy and the world economy so they can go out in one final last hurrah of capitalism, and you have the audacity to ask "What happened?"?.
I seriously can't with these "I don't do politics" idiots anymore.
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As someone who stole from the supermarket all the time in college, I just wanna say that the need is starting to foment in recent times for me. The social contract is growing cracks now that I can’t see retirement and financial stability in my late 30s.
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you keep making bad decisions and your politicians exacerbate them
So it’s not just us, billionaires are bleeding everyone to death, globally.
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People have become so poor that the people blocking them from food have chosen to forfeit their lives.
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Remember, folks: if you saw someone shoplift food? No. You didn't.
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For Christ's sake boys, we're stealing fuckin meat
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Nobody should have to pay for food ever.
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They've been doing this for the last 15 years, people steal them and sell them in pubs. Premium steaks are not feeding world hunger.
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Crime is so low they forgot what they tags are supposed to be used for!
Apparently Ben Graham, the one who tweeted this, is a Reform supporter so, obviously not a valid voice
$10 bucks says they wanted to bring this topic to immigrants.
I saw an old guy putting cans of Klik in his haversack. Then I saw him put a bag of carrots in as well. He also grabbed an 8-pack of double-A batteries and that's when I turned him in. /s
Steaks have always been a shoplifters choice. They're expensive, fit in your pants, drug dealers will take them
When working people finally start acting like rich ppl.
I was going to say they could use like a pocket knife to cut it off, but then I realized where this was.
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Maybe 7.25 steaks?
meat is heavily stolen in alot of chains too.
£7.25 is super expensive, I'd never buy a steak for more than £5 and even then I don't buy them usually.
It's never bread or carrots that get a security tag. Always the luxury products...
Must be food stealing immigrants /s.
I don't think people are stealing the steaks for their nutritional value, so that is still not the right framing.
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I mean it's 7.25 pounds of steak, thats a lot for a barbecue!
Do brits have barbecue, or was that eradicated after their war on flavors?
In many other countries people are much poorer and don't end up stealing steaks from supermarkets. The issue is not finance but collapse of societal trust and Britain for once feels what they've been committing around the world for centuries.
On the other hand maybe meat is an extreme, unsustainable privilege that's inherently based on torturing/murdering animals and destroying the planet.
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This reeks of privlidge when poople complain that they can't have their wagoo steak.
Or, it is another obvious reason
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