#shoplifting

[incognitopolls]

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#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #shopping #lifting #shoplifting #submitted nov 2 #polls about ethics

[probablyasocialecologist]

Shoplifters who spoke to Novara Media said the cost of living crisis had pushed them to steal more of life’s essentials. “A couple of times I’ve been on the verge of crying when I go to buy Sainsbury’s Basics apple and blackcurrant squash and realise the price has doubled in the past three months,” said John.

Lara, a culture worker from London, has started shoplifting groceries more frequently; she said it has become more socially acceptable in her circles. “I know that other people do it, and I’ve seen how other people do it, and that really helped,” she said. Previously, she avoided stealing because her upbringing and wider moralism had convinced her it was “a shameful thing” to do.

“Before, I would have described stealing as this really anti-Islamic thing to do,” she said. Shoplifting is also especially frowned-upon by “parents who come from a working-class or lower middle-class background,” she said, because of how classist ‘scrounger’ stereotypes “trickle down to how we surveil and shame each other.”

Nowadays however, Lara sees shoplifting as “one of the few guerrilla tactics we have available to us.”

Alan, a construction worker from London, who, like John and Anna, has been shoplifting around half his groceries in recent months, has “no moral qualms” about stealing from supermarkets. “I just think that the stuff in the world is ours, all of ours,” he said, “and that we’ve invented a really stupid system for the distribution of resources which doesn’t treat them as ours, and treats them as things that can be used for capitalists to make profit.”

He wouldn’t steal things if it meant that “someone’s labour went unrewarded”, he said, but all shoplifting affects is “the profits of shareholders” he said. “[I have] no concerns about that at all.”

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While, for many, shoplifting feels like a form of resistance to untenable living conditions, no one who spoke to Novara Media was sure how to build solidarity between shoplifters. Alan shoplifts food for rough sleepers, but wishes there were more organised approaches to shoplifting – like the mass stealing and redistribution of food that occurred in Greece following the 2008 financial crisis.

Lara believes shoplifting could be “revolutionary” if it could be “more of an organised operation” that involved “getting workers on side”.

“I think it would be really radical if there would be a widespread recognition and acceptance of stealing as a necessary mechanism for resistance,” she says. “If you can’t afford the things that you have to buy, then the logic should be that you just take them.”

#uk politics #austerity #inequality #shoplifting

[animentality]

#twitter #shoplifting

[flyin-shark]

Need me a girl that shoplifts 😩

#196 #ruleposting #r196 #shoplifting

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Elon Musk took me into the back of a Musk brand department store where I was sure he was going to kill me for shoplifting but instead he took me to this gungy room with a dirty mattress on the floor and told me he could only fall asleep if someone rubbed his belly like a puppy. And he expected me to do it.

#dream #nightmare #horror #elon musk #shoplifting #crime #violence tw #death tw #murder tw

[ceevee5]

#shoplifting

[gooblegorp]

#shitposting #r/196 #196 #memes #wunkus #shoplifting #shoplifters #theft

[hobgobknowsbest]

#goblincore #goblin culture #goblin vibes #goblin things #goblin community #shoplifting #theft #fuck corporations #fuck corporate greed #fuck corporate america

[gamer2002]

#shoplifting #crime #economy #capitalism #communism #socialism #us politics #politics

[contaminatedvessel]

people think I'm kidding when I say that I believe shoplifting from corporations is okay. you need/want that thing? take that shit and try not to get caught (some security guards can be really fucking violent so be careful).

#fuck corporations #this isnt about small buisnesses btw #shoplifting #punk #anarchopunk #anarchist #anarkata #anarchism #queer punx #queer anarchism #fuck capitalism #anarcha queer #queer punk #anarchoqueer #everything should be free #fuck the law #anti capitalism #anti capitalist

[siryouarebeingmocked]

“I work at a grocery store, so I know every possible reason prices go up at every grocery store in the country, based on all this no-evidence I’ve provided.”

FUN FACT: many food shoplifters are stealing to quickly resell for drug money. Or just regular money.

Stolen baby formula is often used to cut drugs, or resold to parents who have difficulty finding it in stores.

...Because it’s been stolen.

#crime #shoplifting #stupid

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

#walmart #shoplifting #smiley #smiley face #old internet #internet culture #meme #flickr #oldweb #old web #webcore #internetcore #2006

[radicalgraff]

"I always feel like shoplifting."

Roller graffiti seen in Copenhagen

#graffiti #graff #vandalism #street art #shoplifting

[a-kind-of-medicine]

every time u steal from a large corporation a small business gets its wings

#shoplifting #shoplifting memes #dark academia #dark academia memes #evil memes #dark humor #capitalism #capitalism memes #walmart memes #surveillance state #data capitalism #lgbtq memes #lgbt memes #wlw memes #lesbian memes #trans memes #transgender memes #fyp #196 #/r/196 #shitpost

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was shoplifting with Taylor Swift and she was giving me tips on how to frame people.

#dream #shoplifting #taylor swift #crime

[karlmarxmaybe]

No ethical consumption under capitalism, therefore no unethical theft under capitalism. Steal

#communism #shoplifting #human rights #morality #sociology #social issues #socialism