https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/11/new-york-and-california-make-retail-theft-top-2024-priority.html

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    The local news has been banging on this drum every single day from what I can tell. Just making people assume there are waves of hoodlums coming to take their stuff.

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      I swear I just saw a post where a shop in Oakland claimed to have closed over shoplifting and it was actually because they were sued by their workers.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        One of the big drug store chains was claiming they closed 9 stores because of theft, definitely not because they're over saturated and maybe we don't need 3 of them on every major intersection.

      • Pandantic [none/username]@midwest.social
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        8 months ago

        I notice money isn’t going into retail wage theft at the same time. Doesn’t this cost the people and the government money? Shouldn’t the government be going after corporations?

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          8 months ago

          liberal governance serves the interests of capital, not workers. if strikes and riots pick up, they'll eventually throw us a bone and then take it away once we stop paying attention.

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      waves of hoodlums coming to take their stuff

      bases waves of hoodlums

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        Yeah my older relatives have been doing a lot of hand wringing over these news reports but none of them ever seem to take it a step further and wonder why thefts might be on the rise. Those people should just get a third job or something if their groceries keep costing more, their landlords are squeezing them for every spare cent and the utility companies that have been neglecting infrastructure for decades are passing on the costs of fines for entire towns burning to the ground to their customers.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Very frustrating. I tried to help out at some of the homeless camps a few years back, and now it's just perfectly normal for cops to be sent in by "liberal" mayors to steal and destroy everything and send everyone in to the winter night to freeze.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        As far as I know that's what happened to a lot of the people in the Paradise fire. They ended up in a tent village because they had nowhere to go on the outskirts of Chico and were making the city councils real estate prices suffer, so they sent in the local cops to beat the shit out of them.