Supermarket crime increases by nearly 60% over past year, report shows (i.stuff.co.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Almost like the cost of living is unachievable for those on the lowest wages.

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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hmm, how does that track with their annual profits over that last year?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 5 points 11 months ago

Cuntdown's profits were actually down, citing inflationary pressures etc, despite an increase in turnover. Pak n Save may be in a similar situation.

[-] Ascyron@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago

I mean, cuntdown still found the money for a $400,000,000 rebranding... Were their profits down by $400,000,000 or are they spending hundreds of millions on a vanity exercise with a side benefit of good PR?

Also, reminder that they all made record profits over the pandemic and "slightly less than the most ever but still well above traditional levels" isn't a fair amount of profit for them to make.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 11 months ago

It warmed my heart to read that.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 8 points 11 months ago

“We know many offenders are targeting premium cuts of meat, health and beauty products and alcohol and we know the biggest problem is repeat offending,” he said.

I know some people are struggling, but someone doing this is likely doing it to resell the items. It's not like they're stealing bread.

[-] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Oh there's always a mix of reasons. Nothing is 100% but an increase in crimes is usually nearly correlated with financial hardship.

Plenty will be stealing to fund vices. That doesn't change.

[-] wolf6152@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

Why steal bread, and everything else for a sandwich, when you can steal one high value item, sell it for cash then go buy your bread?

[-] liv@lemmy.nz 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Premium cuts maybe but in my experience, meat is honestly one of the first things you steal if you're poor and hungry.

Eating nothing but rice, ramen, flour/water, and $1 bread all the time makes you tired and anaemic, and it just sort of feels like stealing some mince or a steak is going to fix that.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 months ago

Meat products are also reasonably easy to conceal, too.

[-] liv@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep. Must be a lot harder these days with all the cameras but still, they tend to be located in an area where shoppers do a lot of bending over and rummaging.

[-] MORTARS@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hardly anyone steals from the grocery store to resell. People stealing at the grocery store are your neighbors. They're not happy about it. This is just something to make yourself feel better.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 1 points 11 months ago

Oh great, you again.

[-] MORTARS@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago

I'm gonna go steal four steaks.

[-] tirohia@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Remember kids, if you see someone stealing food or toiletries, no, you didn't.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

Even I'm stealing and I can afford it. With the self checkouts it's to easy not to get a freebie each time.

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

when I used to work for one of these types of stores, whenever a family came to the checkout, I'd intentionally forget to scan one of the items or put in the wrong number of potatos or something like that. I probably cost the company dozens of dollars doing that