Talk about sticking it to the man in one of the strangest ways possible.
According to a report from MSN, a number of individuals are apparently stealing from Whole Foods in an effort to “stick it” to Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of Amazon.
Or, more accurately, “liberate” him from revenues. If only it worked that simply.
One such individual, who identifies with the pseudonym “Lee,” claims that his Catholic morality justifies rampant theft.
“Lee insists he’s ‘famously’ a very good Catholic. He’s a moral person – his mother raised him right. And by his internal calculation, it’s OK to shoplift from Whole Foods. Why? Because of Jeff Bezos,” MSN noted.
Hm. Except Bezos won’t really feel a thing. The consumers who pay higher prices due to store shrinkage, which results from shoplifting, will.
Much in the same way that they will have to pay higher prices for tariffed goods.
Naturally, Lee fits into a certain demographic, and that would be young and woke.
“From about 2020 to 2022, Lee, a 20-something communications professional living in the Washington, DC, area, engaged in what he describes as ‘grand theft auto-ing’ from his local Whole Foods store. He would cheat the scale at the hot bar, pocket spices, or take home four lemons in the self-checkout aisle while only declaring two. Lee has never shoplifted from anywhere else – not Safeway, not a local store. He’s largely stopped taking from Whole Foods because he moved to a different neighborhood that doesn’t have one. However, he told me, there’s one by his gym he’ll pop into – and steal from – from time to time,” MSN noted.
Hey, gotta get in a good shoplifting session between workouts.
“If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too,” Lee bragged.
Right.
Another shoplifter, who identifies as “Jesse,” claims that he doesn’t feel bad because of Bezos “taking advantage of the little people.”
“I never felt bad for the corporation as a whole, because it was Amazon and, you know, it was Jeff Bezos … He just profits so much taking advantage of the little people, so if we as little people can bite back a little bit, and that’s me taking $100 maybe out of revenue for him, that’s a little bit of a middle finger,” Jesse raged.
Except that such a finger ends up being inflicted upon oneself, especially when prices increase.
As noted by various critics.
“These subversive infractions directed at Bezos and his billionaire cohort may be rooted in legitimate gripes with the state of the world and its unfathomable wealth inequality. On the spectrum of crime severity, swiping $20 worth of goods from a multibillion-dollar corporation does not rank high. But the justifications people offer are just that — justifications. None of what they’re doing is actually making the type of impact they might like to see,” the MSN noted.
Absolutely.
Indeed, per a prevention professional “[shoplifters are] like a giant organized mob, they just don’t know each other.”
Funny.
That characterization could apply to quite a few subversive political groups as well.
Author: Jane Jones
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