Lee Duna to Europe@feddit.deEnglish • 8 months agoSpanish supermarkets lock up olive oil as shoplifting surgeswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down12
arrow-up1162arrow-down1external-linkSpanish supermarkets lock up olive oil as shoplifting surgeswww.reuters.comLee Duna to Europe@feddit.deEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squaretryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺linkfedilinkEnglish15•8 months agoWhich shows the issue. People aren’t stealing out of a profit motive, or “criminal energy”. They steal, because they struggle to afford living.
minus-square@linearchaos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 months agoI don’t know, stealing out of necessity would probably lead me to picking a smaller bottle of oil more often. Trying to run out of a store with 20 lb of oil seems to be a more problematic choice.
Which shows the issue. People aren’t stealing out of a profit motive, or “criminal energy”. They steal, because they struggle to afford living.
People steal for both
I don’t know, stealing out of necessity would probably lead me to picking a smaller bottle of oil more often. Trying to run out of a store with 20 lb of oil seems to be a more problematic choice.