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It's hard not to steal from big box stores, all you have to do is not scan something. I don't think I'm alone in having absolutely no qualms about people doing this.
Especially on items where the pricing is predatory, which is most of them, but some more-so than others.
Recently we were setting up reticulation for our veggies. It's just a network of pipes, but you need clips and connectors and bubblers and things. Of course you have to buy them in packs of however many, but sometimes it's just a nylon clip which I'm certain cost less than $0.01 to manufacture, but a pack of 12 of them costs $5.
I get that the $5 is the cost for the infrastructure to produce, transport, stock, and then sell an item, but that also means that me not paying that $5 hasn't actually cost the vendor anything.
Someone still bears the costs to produce, transport, and stock it. You only save them the credit card processing fee (or the cost of handling cash, or similar) by stealing it instead of buying it. Even if they have insurance, insurance very efficiently charges the statistical average risk (plus overhead and profit...) to the purchasers of their insurance. Higher theft results in higher insurance costs.
If you want lower cost nylon clips, consider 3D printing, especially if you know someone that already has a printer. Because the filament can be transported quite efficiently, the environmental impact may also be substantially lower, especially for small items.
Not really. What is the marginal cost of producing transporting and stocking a small plastic bag that weighs a few grams ?
I'm not genuinely advocating theft as a method for acquiring parts for one's retic set up.
I'm saying that it feels extortionate at the checkout and I'm not going to feel guilty if a couple or parts end up coming home with me without being scanned.
Im happy not to steal. But if it scans cheaper wrong, or it wont scan, it goes in my bag.
Of coirse if you see soneone else steal food. You didnt.
Im finding the constant monitoring quite creepy and the cashier is now a shorter queue. So the convenience is gone. However, the ability to identify the vegetable by picture as i weigh it os good.
Im in australia. Coming from europe, i find it really creepy thatnits nornal here to check your personal bag for theft on the way out of some shops. Id prefer digital surveillance than the same surveillance by a person. Obviously, od much prefer both.
By stealing you just encourage the store to raise their prices. You literally give them a reason as to why they should make stuff more expensive.
It's cute you seem to genuinely believe that
Grocery stores have some of the thinnest profit margins out of any industry. If theft related shrink stopped happening it would eventually be reflected in prices.
Absolutely. Theft, broken stuff, waste, etc. it's literally all calculated into the prices. It's absolutely crazy that people don't realize that. Lol