Organized crime groups are behind grocery store theft across Canada
The Retail Council of Canada is calling grocery store theft a national crisis, with losses now approaching $10 billion annually across the grocery sector and it’s only growing.
Honestly it sounds more like a crisis for the retail council of Canada rather than a national crisis.
“Eastern European organized crime has certainly been involved, and this isn’t just a big city problem, it’s happening straight across the country,” says CTV News crime specialist, Mark Mendelson.
It’s Canada so of course they’re going to be racist about it as well.
Watch out, Canadians. Eastern Europeans are causing a national crisis by taking advantage of our assault on labor.
“People are running away, going to a car right away and giving that product to whoever’s in the car, in exchange for something. Its either drugs or money,” according to Ottawa Police Chief, Eric Stubbs
Eastern European drug addicts.
This month, Guelph police arrested a man who they claim swapped out expensive products for cheaper ones at self-checkouts. Police claim that the individual in question, would scan items that cost less than one dollar, in exchange for baby formula priced at $97 dollars each.
BABY FORMULA COSTS $97 FUCKING DOLLARS????
They’re right, this is a national crisis.
Just last August, in Windsor, Ont. more than $220,000 worth of beef was stolen from a parked tractor trailer. The large-scale heist is another example of lucrative grocery crimes on the rise.
There are differing opinions on where items like black market beef are ending up. Mendelson and others who spoke to CTV News believe that some restaurants struggling to turn a profit are likely purchasing stolen goods. In some cases, smaller grocery stores and restaurants might not even realize they’re purchasing stolen food for their establishments.
Yeah sure they don’t realize this. They’re honest businessmen, buying misc meat off the back of a trailer in an alley. They wouldn’t be the “organized” part of this crime. Actually, they’re victims.
Baby formula being 97 bucks, whether CAD or USD sounds a bit much, but my kids were babbies back In the 2010's so it has probably gone up even further. I know some of the specialty stuff is absurdly priced, babies w sensitive stomach, special nutritional needs etc. My daughter was on formula that was around $30 a canister if I remember right. I knew folks that would boost formula and sell it. If I had anything left on WIC or SNAP when I used to receive them I would buy formula and sell it to people who needed it.
Also:
Title of article, first two words are 'Self Checkout'. Then there's this:
What the fuck does theft of beer from a reefer trailer have to do with the self checkout.
I don't think foreign formula was worth 97 dollars even during the whole powdered milk scandal in China back in 08. I used to have to bring a whole extra luggage filled with powdered milk and/or formula back to China every year for like a decade.
As a refresher, Sanlu was padding their formula with melamine, which caused tens of thousands of hospitalisations and 6 deaths (in infants, the substance isn't good for adults but isn't fatal). A few executives for the company were executed, a few more got life imprisonment, and the government officials that either looked the other way or weren't paying attention got fired. This sent ripples through the Chinese dairy industry with consumers worrying that all formula was tainted and many parents were willing to pay through their teeth for the foreign stuff.
For comparison, in Denmark, where food prices are some of the highest in Europe, an 800g can of formula costs USD 20-30 with sales tax. You guys are being fleeced.
the first link I read on the topic was a toronto local newspaper that said this and then I found this current link which included radioactive other stuff and so I changed the link I was going to post but didn’t update my title