I go to a certain grocery outlet owned by a certain billionaire with a particularly easy self-checkout system. Been 2 years, and I’ve never been caught.
Got tired of overpaying for FOOD. It makes me sick how impossible it is to eat healthy in this economy. You can judge me for being a thief, but I think the real thieves are the greedy people who make the average person break the bank just to eat organic.
I started slowly at first, skipping one or two items as I scanned out. But slowly realized how easy it was to just skip mostly everything. I end up spending about $20 total on some small items/veggies, walking out with about $200 worth of food and other products. Been doing this for about 2 years, which means I’ve probably saved around $21,000 in groceries. This has honestly become a bit of an addiction.
Side note — I would never ever EVER steal from a small business. I do this because it is a victimless crime (unless you think Jeff’s wallet is hurting because of me). I pay a little for a lot, no one gets hurt, and I guess you could say EVERYBODY EATS.
See yall in hell!
EDIT — a lot of corporate bootlickers getting real emotional. I’ve researched this quite a bit and done my due diligence. Allow me to address some things:
-Prices are not getting higher because of shoplifters. It’s just an excuse for them to price gouge. Look it up. The grocery price hike caused by shoplifting is IMPERCEPTIBLE. You’re talking about your asparagus going up by less than a penny!
-“They’re waiting for you to hit a felony charge.”
Yeah I was worried about that $19,000 ago. Not happening.
-“They’re have you on camera. They have your face.” That they do. Guess it’s too late now. Might as well enjoy this steak before I rot in prison.
it’s wild to see how most of you default to becoming so reactionary without critically thinking. I am your enemy? The corporations who throw away millions of dollars worth of fresh food just to ensure that you don’t get any for free are not your enemy? The corporations who profit off your struggle, who profit off your need to survive, aren’t the enemy? The corporations who have made record profits these last few years despite all this shoplifting! Despite not paying their workers proper wages! They’re on your side!
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It’s not victimless, the honest people have to pay higher prices to cover your theft.
I’m not really sure why you’re confessing this other than to brag?
good for you
You’re a real thief, so are shitty billionaires dodging taxes and taking advantage of a poor working class.
I am not well off but I purchase what I can afford and don’t have to make weird round about excuses for my actions when I tell people I am not a piece of shit.
Fruit and vegetables are pretty cheap man
Mmhmmm so you understand the risks of what you are doing on camera. Don’t cry when you’re caught.
Pretty sure you mean Walmart and I guess you’re just lucky they haven’t upgraded their systems yet because most systems are tagging in scanned items immediately. You finish your scan and then when you hit Pay- it alerts a clerk to come check your unscanned item(s) with a video.
I know this because it almost alwaysssss tags me and I have to wait for a clerk because I scan lunchables by scanning 1 over and over as I count my lunchables to bag. I’ve never stolen anything but it’s a habit to scan that way. It alwayssssss picks up and I have to show proof I scanned everything
What you’re doing is inexcusable. Because of the increase in shoplifting during/since the Pandemic, prices soared even higher. It is just another reason on top of the many other reasons prices are higher than ever. You are trying to blame billionaires when billionaires are doing nothing different to cause a rise in prices, you are. So when I go to the grocery store, I am going to be remember your post and how ignorant you are. Not to mention arrogant. You think you have it all figured out.
They know what you’re doing. They are letting you do it and saving the footage to build a case against you so they can get you for a bigger charge than a 1-time theft.
A word of caution: if they know, which they might, they will wait until you’ve stolen enough to charge you with a felony before you get confronted.
Good on you, the prices are beyond a joke.
Fun fact. You’re raising prices for people who aren’t thieves.
Also, stores are implementing AI facial recognition RIGHT NOW, and they are letting people continue to steal, and archiving the video, then rolling all of the cases together on video to get a higher total, and THEN prosecuting. Some are applying it to existing videos of theft.
Enjoy your felony. At least you won’t need groceries in jail.
Idiot don’t do it in the same place of with the same company
You’re only driving up prices for the honest people. Karma works in mysterious ways
I approve. Honestly if they are making me work for them (at self checkout) I get an employee discount,
I have no problem with theft of what you need from corporations
You aren’t sticking it to the man by doing this. You are most likely going to cost yourself more money in the long run and have to boot lick even more bc you WILL get caught. In fact, depending on where you live, you could already be caught. They could be building their case against you every single time you come in and leave with unpaid merch until it is felony level instead of misdemeanor. You think life is hard now just wait until you have jail time and a criminal record. Our system is wack and food should not cost what it does and should be safe for us to eat. But ethical and legal are two separate things and the state will chew your ass up and not be bothered whatsoever. The only life you ruin is your own.
Do what you gotta do but don’t be surprised when they finally come after you. I know these days a place to sleep is becoming increasingly hard to come by and so if you really want free food and a place to sleep, jail is waiting.
This is how they let you dig yourself deeper and to get insurmountable evidence against you.
Yeah, you’re going to a version of hell all right. In San Quentin for grand theft. It’s only a matter of time when they get you. And when they link every theft to you (which they definitely will)? Ho boy are you going to screwed.
But things like what you are doing affect all of us. Prices can go up. They can put more stuff behind locked glass. It can demoralize workers. It can also make returning things harder. But $200 a pop to you? You don’t care.
I see mugshots of people doing this all the time.
They know. You’re catching a felony soon
I hope you know well enough to wear a covid mask
You’re a thief. Burn in hell.
Rage baiting
I didn’t condone and wouldn’t myself, but I could kinda understand right up until you said “organic.” That is ENTIRELY on you. You do not need organic food to be healthy, and I say this as a broke community college student who has 0 issue with eating canned salmon and frozen green beans as my go-to meal, which I do constantly. It really should be a surprise to absolutely no one that organic food, which costs farmers much more to produce, is more expensive, so I question your decision making skills if that is how you’re trying to justify this. Get help because a) like you said, it feels like an addiction, which means you’re dulling your reaction to the adrenaline and b) never know when Walmart could do what Target does and just tracks you and waits until they can hit you with a felony. jfc
I watch body cams all day on YouTube (disabled veteran.) Every single day there’s new shoplifting videos. If you think it’s worth going to jail for and possibly doing some time then more power to you, Technology will eventually get you. Especially when you get comfortable with what you’re doing.
You realize that law enforcement can get a search warrant for Reddit correct? You make me sick. Of course everyone would like to steal. No one wants to overpay to live healthier or get the things they like, but we all have to cohesively exist and your taking bites out of every single one of us who have to pay. You make me sick!
You sound white
Whole foods
They let you and keep a tally on you so they can charge you with a felony lol
Op. Are you paying for anything? If so. Are you using cash or card?
Oh they know .
Stop doing it..
Might be to late.
They are gonna fuck you hard when they decide to flip the switch. Lol
Lots of places let you steal to a certain amount until they can hit you with major felony charges.
Karma
You are fine, as AP I would switch up what you pay for to make it more difficult for them to catch a pattern.
You seem to be a pro though. Keep doing ya best.
You really complain about the cost of food when shopping at Whole Foods? Bruh.
You are mostly not taking anything from Bezos, he owns less than 10%. So 90% of what you steal being stolen from 401ks etc. Lot easier to rationalize if you don’t use facts I guess
Nothing wrong here
You are making food more expensive for the rest of us.
I am not saying they already know, but this will bite you eventually. Better to appreciate your luck that it has lasted this long vs you in the back of a police car because you felt you could keep at it forever.
Yeah so I’m guessing this is woolworths or Coles in Australia or Walmart in America.
I’ve worked loss prevention and lemme tell you I highly doubt there’s some case being built up against OP.
Loss is calculated into the profit margins and they still make millions. No one is paying higher prices for these items because they get taken.
Do you know how many people steal? Do you realize how much effort it would take to track someone down and go through past video footage and transactions to find everything they’ve stolen when those items couldve been stolen by a hundred different people? There’s no way to track the stolen items and unless someone has kept a lot of OP (which does not happen) ain’t no one going through years of security footage which has likely been deleted just to look for a person like you see in cop shows.
You think a supermarket worker is doing more than the police?
Add that to the fact that there’s so many contingencies with supermarkets accusing someone of theft. It becomes messy and there’s not a person behind a camera keeping tabs on this kind of thing. There’s no position for it. Loss prevention exists to prevent loss, not to avenge and reclaim it.
Stores accept collateral. Just think of how much is thrown out in rubbish each day. To them it’s just a number on a scale. No one is being personally affected by this. Go for IT OP.
When you go to jail, I’ll make sure to laugh
Guess what you won’t be getting in prison – healthy food. Until you get caught, you are just making life harder for the honest folks. Don’t deceive yourself. These kind of things always come back to bite us – often in unexpected ways. Count on it.
Your rationalization is disturbing. You are a thief and no amount of justification or rationalization is going to change it.
I’m sure other people are saying this, but they likely know what you’re doing, and are waiting for you to pass a certain threshold so they can get you on a felony. Stop going there at all costs.
I hate that you are in this position, but you are only getting away now with stealing $200+ worth of groceries now. I would say, like the others are saying, that they are building a case for you get arrested/pay it back, etc. If I were you I would tell no one, never return back to that store again, and do not steal again. There are so many things you can do to avoid stealing, and it will only bite you in the ass in the end. Best of luck op
Oh the shadow you must feel sometimes…. Resist at all cost!! I made a pun! Aghahaaaaaa
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Thatta boy keep at it 💪 these chains make lots of profit 🤑
You’re making everyone’s food prices higher. You’re the reason some stores have removed self checkout. Stores in some neighborhoods are closing because of you and other people like you. Get a second job, do something honest instead of stealing. It’s wrong and you know it’s wrong.
A thief is a thief, you gotta live with it.
Stealing from Whole Foods of all places because food everywhere is too expensive? This has got to be rage bait. Have you ever thought of shopping at Aldi rather than doing mental gymnastics to justify theft at one of the most expensive grocery stores in the US? You’re not Robin Hood lmfao
“If you see someone stealing groceries from the store, no you dont.”
Victimless crime you say? You don’t think prices have gone even high because of asshole thieves like you? I knew a guy back home that did this too. He’d show off to everyone hey look, I paid $4 for this $80 prime rib! Hahaha he said. I went to the store and gave his description, told them how he did it and he got arrested. I so hope it happens to you as well. Just keep flapping your stupid gums.
I can assure you that you will be caught. Will this all be worth it when you end up in jail? Also, the rest of us pay for our food, why is it fair that you don’t?
You are hurting everyone. When someone steals or causes shrink that cost gets evened out onto everyone else’s groceries.
Also, of course it costs a lot to eat organic. When growers don’t use pesticides they are basically deciding most of their crop is going to die and that cost of dead crop is thrown onto the cost of the crop they do sell.
His house in maui is built on an ancient sacred burial ground.
Make sure you keep an eye out for the eagle-eyed, highly trained security ninja disguised as a 16 year old girl earning minimum wage. You think she’s just standing there playing on her phone, but she can see everything you are stealing and really does give a shit.
I bet your parents are proud of you …. or what is the other excuse we hear on Tv… my son is a very good person , he would never do this. You got the wrong person
If you are in need, contact your states department of human services and get assistance. If you’re not, you’re increasing the price of groceries for others. Maybe.
Are you at least going to different locations or do you shop at the same one week after week?
They don’t have cameras in the self checkout? That’s surprising I’m not above stealing the occasional toothpaste or something as a “making me bag my own groceries tax” it a few hundred dollars a trip I’m surprised no one picked up on this.
Theres a part of me that hopes it’s loblaws .. cuz fuckem
You do realize that the price of theft is built into the price of food, right?
It’s not the greedy billionaires you’re stealing from; it’s everyone else.
i don’t weigh in on the “you’re making food prices higher” or “they’re watching you until it;s a felony”, as i really have no idea. But what i guarantee is that you will get caught. it’s been a great run, but it won’t last forever. And it’s going to be very, very humiliating for you when it happens.
Spin it any way you want, but it’s still stealing.
Who is Jeff and what single billionaire owns any large grocery chain? None that I know of.
Keep up the good work 👍
Nobody makes anyone break the bank just to eat organic. I don’t eat organic and nobody ever tried to make me. Surely this is a troll post just to get reactions.
Good for you, bro.. and I commend you
But as the leader of project mayhem once said
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Quit while you’re ahead or least take a break