I’ve seen a little Korean (I think) woman in the produce department, using a paring knife to cut away grams of stuff she doesn’t want to pay for. Is it theft? Yeah... Might be a cultural thing, too.
Posted on 03/27/2025 11:25:06 PM PDT by ransomnote
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.
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.
Lee has weighed the ethics of what he's doing. At one point, the guilt got to be so much that he confessed his misdeeds to his mother. Once he explained his reasoning — Amazon's market power, Bezos' wealth, what the billionaire has done at The Washington Post — she came around.
"If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too," Lee says. Lee is a pseudonym — the same goes for all of the shoplifters and ethically (and legally) compromised individuals quoted in this story.
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Everything is very small potatoes compared to the Democrats / Uniparty. The Mafia is no doubt quite jealous.
Yes, very much so😠
[[Lee insists he’s “famously” a very good Catholic]]
He’s a good boy!
He dindu nuffin! (we have to cross cultures lol)
The story is as old as sin. Criminals rationalize whatever they want to do.
I don’t recall reading any exceptions to the commandment “Thou shalt not steal”
These are the same people who take over a dead person’s social security payments. Elon Musk says his DOGE team has spent weeks clearing out bad data from its records, sifting out millions of cases where 7 million Social Security number holders were over the age of 120.
For what? Reporting the news?
I’ve seen a little Korean (I think) woman in the produce department, using a paring knife to cut away grams of stuff she doesn’t want to pay for. Is it theft? Yeah... Might be a cultural thing, too.
AOC is the new Robopierre!
I love that line.
Get back at FOR WHAT??? Revenge FOR WHAT? What did they "steal" from you???
OH! I get it. You're Leftists and you're butt hurt that they're no longer supporting the Left/Democrats even though they did in the past.
People shopping at Whole Paycheck talking about saving money by stealing. I've got an idea. Why not shop at a much much less expensive grocery store and be honest instead of being a thief? The best thing that could happen would be for these people to get caught and for the companies to press charges so they will have criminal records and hopefully lose their jobs.
Whenever I weigh potatoes at the self check-out, a shop attendant in standby has to intervene and check that it’s not something more expensive. I am waiting for AI cameras at the checkout. Meanwhile, I buy bar-coded potato bags which I found are actually cheaper.
No no...hang on...
With Pope Pachamama and his flexible views of sin, morality and WWJD, he might just BE a famously Catholic guy...
/jk
Bkmk
The target auidence for this type of articles are the college educated. Those who have been at the center of the movement to push Marxism onto the American Dream.
Marxist Class Envy on full display.
Stealing was okay from afar, e.g., when the “others” at university were burning, looting and murdering too. It was okay for the BC to BLM over 500 cities. Yup, that’s social justice.
Lee is both a thief and a liar. It ain’t my first time hearing about the innocence of the thieves, how their plight forced them to choose a life of crime. All justified by CAPITALISM.
Given lack of morals and effort taken to normalize stealing among the college educated now, Trump is going to have a hard time turning this Nation around.
Entire segments of the population have been indoctrinated into becoming honorable social justice thieves.
No doubt those lemons are keeping him from paying off his student loans too.
Trump should contact the editor or the owner of the paper and get a handle on this dissent garbage and put a bunch of them on the unemployment roles.
The voter rolls have taken a massive hit.
In 2020 Brandon topped the all time list for voters in all categories, which are “famously” counted.
In 2024 Trump’s efforts and that of a 1000 lawyers cleaned up some of the illegal voter rolls... Brandon, Harris, Obama and Company had the largest drop in voting count history.
In 2026 and 2028, we are going to see the biggest dip in DNC voting ever recorded due to just the Social Security Fraud; count the disruption of Federal Payments to the DNC’s revolving NGOs and Biden’s 20+ shell companies and the 10% kickbacks will finish of the DNC.
Our country was not set up for, and likely will not survive, an immoral people.
“The voter rolls have taken a massive hit.”
And thanks to dismantling USAID, Sh*tocrats have taken a massive hit to their campaign financing. Think about it. The amount of money saved by dismantling USAID is, by US budget standards trivial. Why did the Sh*tocrats squeal so badly over it? Because all those worthless NGOs were paying salary and then shoving money into Sh*tocrats campaign donations.
Exactly what did Jeff Bezos steal? And I suppose this very good catholic can pray and be forgiven, so he can do it all over again? What a nutcase.
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