Why can’t this shit become a social media trend? Imagine countless youths getting together and doing this nationwide. Alas
Title is misleading. It’s not theft. It’s direct action.
Stealing food….yeah I hope they get away with it in this evil dystopia
I didn’t see nothing.
Damn, Santa has so many Elf mouths to feed. And don’t act like we don’t owe him one. Didn’t see a damn thing.
When I lived in America, My local grocery stores have those push button security gates that block people from stealing food. It’s a one sided gate and people coming in has a button to open the gate.
I saw a female with a baby in a cart at the gate, waiting for someone to open it. I’m glad to be the person that let the mom through.
Huh, I thought those were largely a commonwealth thing - like the cart returns where you have to give them a coin before they’ll unlock themselves. I’ve never seen one in the US, though there are a few one-way gates at stores near me (they don’t appear to do anything though, just prevent you from going out the wrong door - I think they’re just there as traffic management, they’re not active)
Laurie: you were there, what did you see?
Me: sorry, mate. I didn’t see anything. Must’ve happened while I was over by the bread.
I got 8kg or so of food today for £0.20, I don’t even know how I could steal £3k worth. Loving the food discounts here before Christmas.
BTW, if you see anyone stealing food, you saw nothing.
Sorry, I had an onset of sudden blindness. I didn’t see anything.
"No matter the reason, it is unacceptable and a criminal act,” Metro spokesperson Geneviève Grégoire told CBC News in a statement. ”Retail crime resulted in losses of $9.2 billion in Canada in 2024. Many factors influence food inflation, including disruptions in the global supply chain, volatility in commodity prices, changes in international trade conditions, and retail crime.”
Let me play the world’s smallest violin
I wonder how much wage theft losses are
Take it up with the Employers under paying, the Landlords over charging, and the Goverment Officials that prioritize anyone but the poor. They got my money. Ask them for yours.
Metro would have done better to claim it was their idea.
In an Instagram post, the Robins des ruelles said four masked “Santa Clauses” and a “swarm of elves” redistributed the alleged stolen goods after the symbolic “food drive” to community fridges across Montreal and under a Christmas tree in Place Valo
Fuck yeah
Santa Hood and his band of Merry Elves
God this story is getting better and better
I thought it was called “Christmas of elves”, not swarm.
Depends how they are deployed.
The elves are drones, run by fiber cables
The heroes this world needs.
Retail crime resulted in losses of $9.2 billion in Canada in 2024.
I don’t think I really care how much money billionaires lose.
That’s the thing. They lost $9.2 billion, but they still turned a profit.
They factor the cost of theft into their item pricing.
And yet, if theft stopped, prices wouldn’t go back down.
Naturally. By not stealing you are giving them free money.
If wage theft totals to a greater number (I read than in the US it is the biggest form of theft, not canada, but dont have data for canada), then it is not the poor who are stealing food, it is the rich who stole and the poor are starving
In the US, wage theft is larger than every other form of theft combined. It’s literally over 51% of all theft. But it’s typically considered a civil issue, not criminal. So cops won’t help, and individual employees need to sue to get anything. And when those employees are being stolen from, they can’t afford a lawyer to sue.
And the current administration has systematically defunded, delegitimized, and dismantled organizations like the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, etc which actually had the teeth to fight for workers.
When people talk about white collar crime not being prosecuted, this is the kind of shit they’re talking about. You walk into a gas station and blatantly steal a $2 candy bar every day. By the end of the week, they’ll have a cop waiting for you to show up… But that same gas station chain steals $2 from every single employee every single day, by requiring them to show up 15 minutes before their clock-in time, netting them hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen wages every year? That’s a civil issue, and the employees need to take it up with the gas station’s corporate lawyers… Who will drag a court case out until the employees are all broke and have to drop the case.
some heads need to roll. it isn’t a democracy if laws like theft only apply in one direction. steal a penny from the rich and they’ll ruin your life. steal a fortune from people who make you your fortune? that’s just smart business. and not a crime.
Wage theft fully eclipses burglary and other petty crimes
It fully eclipses every other form of theft combined. Wage theft totals over 51% of all theft.
Doubt they’d have these losses if they stopped throwing away the food and instead gave it to people in need.
Most grocery store do donate food
Eh, I’d rather say some of them do. Few honestly, the rest only as a scheme to increase profits.
It was general statement. I didn’t have my list of locations handy. Sorry.
Major retail theft is almost always done by employees, anyway. Very intellectually lazy reporting to just drop that factoid (produced by retail stores, not independent studies) without that context.
been this way for decades or since like ever. I remember working at Best Buy in the early 00s and the primary shrink factor was internal theft not shoplifting. Hell the LP guy that stood in the front of the store with the yellow shirt spent more time watching employees than actual customers.
You know you’re right, we could do better ! That’s rookies number
“Retail crime resulted in losses of $9.2 billion in Canada in 2024.”
I wonder how that compares to wage theft for the same period.
In 2017 Ontario found ~60M in wage theft.
With this we can deduce that it’s about 2 billion in wage theft in canada in 2017.
So not quite total offset but significant enough that this is gonna have to fall under the cost of doing business.
How is that measured exactly? If wage theft is able to be measured, then shouldn’t the corporations be punished for it? Last year, Amazon stole from me by claiming I didn’t work on days that I know for a fact I clocked in and out for, fired me over it, and then denied my appeal without reviewing any footage. I know that example is purely on experience rather than objective fact, but that’s how I imagine most wage theft happens. Therefore, if it’s able to be measured out reliably, then why isn’t anything done towards them? Isn’t wage theft highly illegal?? Or am I just ignorant???
Found wage theft. That is, of the number of incidents reported, which ones were ruled to be theft. But there’s the undocumented part of wage theft.
On top of that, there are “legitimate” cases that should be considered wage theft, i.e. extraction of value from the worker. The tally on that is essentially the entire world economy.
most wage thefts are not even reported. boss makes you come in early? stay late? have lunch at your desk? answer emails and calls outside of work? those are still wage theft even if they never touch your pay check.
and if I were to put my Marx hat, then all for profit business is wage theft (although I get it is not legally so, but who made that fucking law?)
when it comes to food , no ine stole shit, other than some fatass greedy cunt overcharging we humans
If there are hungry people in a state, while there are people with more resources than they can spend in a lifetime, it is the state that stole (or allowed the rich to steal) the food from the poor.
This is actual action, folks. This puts food in bellies and hurts the rich. Not a protest or a hashtag campaign.
I wouldn’t call it direct action or praxis. I doubt it was done for some political message or to help people, they are likely poor and hungry… although if they stole so much food to share, then I would count it as direct action.
Way to brag about not reading the article.
The food was donated to food shelters all over the city and placed under a public christmas tree.
You just jumped to them doing it for themselves.I’ll admit I didn’t do my due diligence, was late and was tired, appreciate you correcting me.
Hey, no worries, just dont want us to immediately expect the worst of others and I prefer to push back against it. Trying to give them their credit for doing something.
activism like that is unheard of in this side of the pond, I’m also happy about this
Its certainly rare anywhere or else we wouldn’t still be talking about robin hood much.
Its real neat they tried it though.try?
didn’t they succeed
Those poor billionaires, what are they gonna do now.
Subtract it from cashiers and guards’ salary. At least how it’s done where I live.
These mf’s will do anything to keep their profits
