This just happened during Black Friday and I'm still processing it. My sister and her husband Michael went to Walmart for their Black Friday sale. According to them it was absolute chaos - hundreds of people everywhere, barely any workers, total mess.
Michael managed to grab one of the doorbuster deals - a huge 65" TV that was marked down from $899 to $399. Apparently the checkout lines were so insane (staffed by one underpaid employee) that people just started walking out. Like literally just pushing their carts through without paying because there weren't enough workers at registers and the underpaid security guard obviously wasn't getting paid enough to care.
And my sister and Michael joined them. They walked out with a $400 TV because "everyone else was doing it" and "the store's owners should have been better prepared."
The part that really bothers me is they were bragging about it at family dinner yesterday. Right in front of their kids (8 & 10) AND my kids (7 & 12). They were laughing about their "amazing deal" like it was some funny story about outsmarting the system and they are right!
I pulled my sister aside and told her this was basically stealing and sets a horrible example for the kids, who may get fired in the future for not risking their lives to stop the theft of a commodity. She got defensive saying that she recently finally sat down & read some of the theory I'd sent her over the years and that she realized big stores expect this kind of loss during sales and that it's not really stealing because the store "couldn't handle their own sale properly and Joe Biden has done nothing for the working class the past 4 years."
Michael jumped in saying I need to read more Marxist theory on class struggle & how it relates to crimes such as theft and that I'm probably just jealous I didn't get any "deals." I'm honestly disgusted by the whole thing. Later my kids were asking me if it's okay to not pay for stuff when stores are really busy, which just proves my point about what message this sends.
My sister hasn't talked to me since I called her out, and my parents are saying I should apologize for "making drama" and that it's "none of my business" but someone needs to say something, right?
Am I seriously overreacting here? Everyone's acting like this is just normal Black Friday behavior and I feel like I'm going crazy....
on the one hand, stealing from wal mart
On the other hand, wanting a 65" TV
so ehhh esh i gess
Like literally just pushing their carts through without paying because there weren't enough workers at registers and the underpaid security guard obviously wasn't getting paid enough to care.
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... "the store's owners should have been better prepared."
My thought process every time I am waiting in a long line at a store with < 50% the aisles open and every person at them working too hard, can't stop for a drink of water or anything.
An atmosphere of collective rebellion could discipline the managers to adequately staff. If they need to pay higher wages, bump more people to full time, whatever it could take.
Is this a bit post? Stealing from Wal Mart is hilarious and good. The only downside is that they definitely have cameras and face tracking software and you can definitely get in trouble down the line for doing this. But honestly fuck wal mart, especially if you have the privilege to deal with some of the potential legal consequences of stealing from them. It's more ethical to steal from Wal Mart than it is to buy from Wal Mart
Comrade, it's a bit. The details like
Michael jumped in saying I need to read more Marxist theory on class struggle & how it relates to crimes such as theft and that I'm probably just jealous I didn't get any "deals."
Are too
I'm so bad at identifying bits especially for someone who posts so many bits
smh your sister and her husband should raise their kids better, at ages 8 & 10 they should be old enough to point at you and call you a
Walmart steals 100x more from their employees through wage theft and consumers via jacking up their prices constantly.
Stealing from Walmart is good. I wish i could get my family to read theory and loot.
michael is right. you need to read more theory.
but yeah you’re over reacting. who gives a fuck if someone “stole” from walmart? i dont care if its a loaf of bread, a tv, or a hunting rifle. walmart owes us all. our tax dollars pay their employees for them so they dont have to. every american should be entitled to at least a tv per year from walmart
karl marx himself wrote “walmart is bad. stealing from them is cool. it could get you pussy too. girls love a cool guy who steals from walmart. steal something for them. they’ll feel like they’re dating disney’s aladdin”. maybe if you took michael’s advice and read more theory you’d have known this by now. thats also why he’s shacked up with your sister. she knows he’s alpha.
in fact get michael on this account OP i wanna talk to him
Uncritical support to Michael in his struggle against the understaffed Walmart empire
Based as hell, I never understood why so many people whine about "looters", is it hurting you or any other regular person specifically if someone steals from some huge supermarket?
I mean, I know the reason for it
, but still.Shoplifting from big box stores makes you fucking cool dude.
