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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
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.
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
Wage theft fully eclipses burglary and other petty crimes
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.
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.
This is actual action, folks. This puts food in bellies and hurts the rich. Not a protest or a hashtag campaign.
Hell yea, new Christmas lore!
when it comes to food , no ine stole shit, other than some fatass greedy cunt overcharging we humans
"stole" from a Metro. Good. in Canada all of THREE companies own ALL the grocery chains in the country. Metro being one of them. So I totally support this.
Also if you ever see someone stealing food from a Canadian owned grocery store, no you didn't. and if you ever report ANYONE for stealing from a Metro or Loblaws or Sobeys or ANY of their subsidiaries then you're a piece of shit.
So ... Half a dozen eggs?
Those poor billionaires, what are they gonna do now.
