insert-epic-blogger-name-here:
The company chooses to penalize the workers.
Instead of turning your hatred towards people just trying to survive the eternal crisis that is capitalism, turn that hatred where it needs to go–towards the company–and get organized.
Our business is entirely member/staff owned and – hold onto your hats folks – we don’t get in trouble when people shoplift. I’ve locked eyes with shoplifters and gave them The Look because I don’t want them to get caught. Not only that but I’ve just given expired product away to my regulars if I know they like the item, which is, on paper, literally no different from shoplifting because we make no money on the item. They’re both loss. It’s all arbitrary, none of this shit is real whatsoever and anon – you are substituting a cowardly fear response for the necessary action.
Friendly reminder that the best response to shoplifting is saying nothing
The best response to shoplifting is collective action sufficient to ensure no one ever feels a need to shoplift in order to meet the basic needs of a modern life.
Until then, keeping your mouth shut will have to do.
& in most large stores stock is calculated about once a year and shoplifting losses are a standard calculated loss so shoplifting has zero consequences for workers. That whole ‘shoplifting gets people fired’ shit is prime bullshit that is true in only a handful of cases and it’s just getting repeated over and over again as if it is universal truth to turn people into snitches. Fuck that shit.
QueerAnarchism 