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Iceland is already one of the cheapest supermarkets in the UK, if someone is shoplifting food from Iceland they're probably both hungry and trapped in poverty.
by drcongo 1y ago
Iceland is already one of the cheapest supermarkets in the UK, if someone is shoplifting food from Iceland they're probably both hungry and trapped in poverty. Anyone reporting them for £1 is a piece of shit.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoRemember: if you saw someone shoplifting food, no, you didn't.
- comprev 1y agoWhich is why the reward is £1 - because the demographic of their customers consider it worth their time. In ASDA it might be £2 In Tescos it might be £4 In Waitrose it might be £10
- tonyedgecombe 1y agoI remember my dad talking about a couple of his coworkers that would go shoplifting during their lunch break. Both employed as well as their partners. Neither could be described as hungry or in poverty.
- inglor_cz 1y agoIDK about Iceland, but in the supermarkets I know, people rarely nick food out of hunger. They are mostly targeting more expensive merchandise to sell/exchange for drugs.
- giraffe_lady 1y agoWhere I am it's kind of in between the two I think. People are not normally shoplifting nutritional staples, which are fairly cheap as far as it goes. It is more like "treats," often for their children, things like name brand cereal, pop tarts, cake mix. And then things that are excluded from SNAP like rotisserie chicken, alcohol, pet food, vitamins, dish & laundry detergent. And of course baby formula when possible. But that has been locked up for decades now.
- drcongo 1y agoThere is no expensive merchandise in Iceland.
- acheron 1y agoI know HN comments are generally terrible now, but endorsing theft is a new low.