Shoplifting

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Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration.

The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork.

“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”

cross-post from: https://aussie.zone/post/1701051

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4 stickers placed on different areas of a supermarket. 1, 2, and 4 use the green colours and logo of Woolworths. The third is red with the Coles logo, with a red hand pointing downwards with its middle finger.

Special: You deserve steak for dinner. You can't afford it, but you deserve it.

Special: We understand that times are tough, and that's why we pay our CEO over $20,000 a day. That's the median wage of a Tasmanian before the end of the week!

Special: If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't.

Special: We've made over $1 billion in profits whilst you can't even afford bread.

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https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/110988042513307046

[image description: a sticker on a grocery store shelf that says (Special) If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't.]

Paywalled Dec 23, 2021 Article

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If we’re concerned with the types of crime that destroy lives and businesses, endanger retail workers on the job, and discourage people from going out to enjoy themselves, then shoplifting is the wrong crime to focus on. The problem is violence, which frequently has nothing to do with shoplifting at all. But shoplifting is an easier conversation for the retail industry to have, and one that plenty of people—journalists included—are keen to get in on. It’s a thousand other zeitgeisty arguments in one: about the role of police and prison in society, about the efficacy of tough-on-crime politicians or “Defund the police” as a slogan, about how serious property crime is relative to other types of harm, about whether liberal local governments are actually inept, about why there’s so much open human misery on the streets of San Francisco.

Good old thieves, that is to say, are a palatable common enemy. Better to fear them than the other types of casual violence that have seeped into everyday life in America, and the rot that may have created it.

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proletarian shopping

Looting; when the working class goes apeshit and steals large quantities of merchandise en masse, usually accompanied by vandalism, arson, and violence against the police.

The revolution is here! Lets smash those fucking windows and do some proletarian shopping!]

@j_roby posted a Gravel Institute tweet that deserved its own post.

This is the story that tweet was based on.

[Image description: picture of a tweet from @GravelInstitute stating "Someone stole $950 worth of items from a Walgreen’s - there were 309 stories about it. Walgreen’s was caught stealing $4.5 million from employees - it got just one single story.]

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[image description: looks like a book cover. Dogbert, a character from the series Dilbert, runs up a hill, which is inbfron if yellow mountains and a sunny sky. He has office supplies like pens and paperclips in his arms.

Title of the book in red font is "build a better life by stealing office supplies" with the subtitles "Dogbert's big book of business" and " illustrated by Scott Adams"]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2082283

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/480695

On Thursday, six people entered a Tesco Extra in the Maryhill district of Glasgow, Scotland, took food and essential items from the shelves and put them in the store’s food bank donation bins.

In a video posted on Twitter on Wednesday, an activist says: “The reason we’re doing this is that supermarkets in this country have been raising their prices ahead of the rate of inflation, essentially stealing from ordinary people in order to line their packets with profits.

[...]The activist is seen ripping the security tag off a tub of baby formula. He says: “This is a basic need for every family with babies and it’s £18 in Asda, which is an immense price tag. […] Supermarkets are prioritising their profits over the safety and health of families in the community.”

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Alt text: an image of a poster with the text "Did you see: - A tent in the Wood? - Someone shoplifting? - A person sleeping in their car? No! You fucking didn't! People are struggling, don't make it worse

geteilt von: https://lemmy.world/post/3145030

Between 30 to 50 people swarmed the Nordstrom at the Westfield Topanga Mall in Woodland Hills, making off with thousands of dollars worth of luxury handbags and high-end clothing, an LAPD spokesman told NBC News.

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Alt text: Photo of textile print with the slogan "we're here, we're queer, and we're going shopllifting"

Alt text: Black and white image of a raccoon reaching put with one paw and a small text that reads "I just wanted you to know... I'm gonna steal that"

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> will hot glue prevent the security ink tag from splattering? let's find out

>i recently purchased these ink tags fromebay for security research purposes

>and after smothering the tag with hot glue i put on my safety gloves and glasses and pry open the tag

>to my surprise the ink files remained intact

>what else should i try

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video guide on how to remove a security tag with fork, transcript:

will i be able to remove the security tag using two forks

let's find out

i recently purchased these tags from ebay for security research purposes

i begin by inserting the pin into the tag and then slide the first fork in between them

i'm able to pop out the pin a little and then i use the second fork to finish the job

success what else should i try

alt text: picture of person stealing some food and text in different fonts says: "You really think I'm shoplifting? Relax! I'm just urban foraging - Mother Earth made food as a free Gift for All of Us"

you should never purchase meat. but always steal it. kleptitarians steal all their food. when it suits them they steal food that results from harm to animals and the environment such as meat.

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reposted because op sadly deleted it and really like it