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Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Chocolate bars are being locked in plastic boxes in some UK shops as retailers and police forces warn thieves are stealing them to order.

Sainsbury's said it had begun using "boxes on products which are regularly targeted", with £2.60 bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk locked up in one London branch.

Chocolate was more recently being "sold on by criminals and is now being targeted more frequently by prolific offenders," according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

And? I said "corporation". I don't give a fuck how "Legitimate" they are. I hope they are affected and I very much want them to be affected.

Sainsbury's is majority owned by Qatar Investment Authority - a sovereign wealth fund, the rest is private equity.

Tesco's is majority owned by fucking BlackRock and over 80% of the shares are other misc private equity.

Morrisons is owned by US private equity in whole.

ASDA is owned by private equity and Walmart.

They are not the fucking struggling little guy that you seem to want to portray them as.

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

By all means shop at Coop and Waitrose then, but you're missing the point: this is making things more expensive for everyone else. Shops have to raise prices to offset losses and investment in security.

If everyone bought stolen goods the legitimate shops would go out of business and the shoplifters would have nowhere to steal from. Your cheap goods are being subsidised by honest customers.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

co-op and Waitrose

I know I missed a few lol. There's M&S too.

missing the point

No, you're missing mine.

Your cheap goods

I've never bought from one of those shoplifters and I've never personally met or seen one, the only place I've heard them mentioned is the internet, I have zero self-interested motivation here, I'm arguing only based on principle and nothing more.

Out of business

Now you're getting it. I do hope they do go out of business, I hope every single corpo goes out of business and we can fix the world's problems instead of perpetually transferring all our money to the ultra-rich and the elderly boomers who destroyed the world so they could vote for more racism and despair.

Nothing less than total corpo death.

Then we can sail to the stars.