Poll: Is it culturally acceptable to steal from walmart?

[Aiden Rebirth]

I have a friend that steals from walmart on a regular basis, he is a crazy wanna be anarchist in college with me, who believes that everyone is okay with stealing from walmart, so it' no big deal. I know the're spossed to be evil, and I hate there business practices, so I should be okay with stealing from them, right? Wrong.I fear for the jobs of the store employees, and the status of the economy, not to mention the law, but what do you guys think? Is it okay to steal from walmart.

Edit. let it be noted he mostly steals pc games, since they are not in a locked case.

 

[ellimist337]

No. Regardless of how little losing the money matters, regardless of how much you disagree with their production methods, and regardless of how they treat their employees, it's not right to steal from them. And it certainly isn't right in the law's eyes, either. I have a "friend" who stole more than $14000 worth of merchandise while he worked there. He got lucky; he only had to spend a weekend in jail and pay back the cost of the stuff.

 

[Turtleboy1017]

There is spelled They're, and dude its Wallmart. WALLMART. So no, you can't steal anything from them. Because you would go to jail. But if you WERN'T to go to jail, then yes, steal everything you can from Walmart.

And I forgot that there is one l in Walmart. And I just hate them because they made my favorite hardware store go out of buisness

 

[acer840]

Scince when is it culurally acceptable to steal, let alone from wallmart?

 

[JMeganSnow]

There is spelled They're, and dude its Wallmart. WALLMART. So no, you can't steal anything from them. Because you would go to jail. But if you WERN'T to go to jail, then yes, steal everything you can from Walmart.

It's Wal-Mart . . . because it was founded by Sam WALton. And no, it's not acceptable to steal from Wal-Mart any more than it is acceptable to steal from anyone else. If you don't like them, don't do business with them.

 

[Aiden Rebirth]

There is spelled They're, and dude its Wallmart. WALLMART. So no, you can't steal anything from them. Because you would go to jail. But if you WERN'T to go to jail, then yes, steal everything you can from Walmart.

your an idiot, THERE is only one L in WALMART, and i forgot an apostrophe, sue me.

 

[Rednog]

To me stealing is only justified in certain situations, such as in a person who cannot afford food to live and they steal from some one who won't feel an impact of the item being gone. In the walmart case no, your friend is just trying to justify his actions for free crap.

 

[Al X and Ur]

i think its wrong to steal, but alot of my friends do it and no one cares, i remember one time my friend actually got caught and the wal mart guy says "aww fuck it, just get out of here" and let him go with the stolen goods...

 

[Gitsnik]

I'll vote that stealing is always wrong.

But I've done it before.

And someone tell me that Robin Hood was evil - and actually believe it.....Someone who is not the direct descendant of the Sheriff.

 

[Marv21]

Well, stealing is not alright, however the way they treat employees, use foreign work, do false advertisement on a large scale. It is still not right, however if you stole like 20-40 bucks of energy drinks or something from them I think thats fine. They screw up our world, so we have to demand 20-40 bucks of anything we can shoplift to make that wrong a right.

BUT!
If you do that, you cannot call WAL-mart Evil anymore!

 

[Fire Daemon]

Sounds like a real wannabe Anarchist to me. If he really hated Wal-mart and consumerism he would do a little bit more than stealing a brand new TV.

No it is not okay to steal from Wal-mart. It is not okay to blow it up either but if you blow it up at least you aren't a hypocritical pussy.

 

[SmugFrog]

People try to justify stealing what they want by saying it's from a "faceless" organization that's "evil". The amount of money Wal-Mart loses in a year just makes them jack up prices to keep their profit up. I worked at Wal-Mart during one of their inventories; you would be amazed at the amount of loss they rack up each year. The year I was there, I forget exactly how much it was (I'm not going to estimate, it has been 10 years) - but it was a lot - I was shocked. The manager told me that was actually a GOOD year and lower than their previous ones had been.

If you were stealing food or necessary items because you couldn't afford them, I would feel a bit different about this; but stealing just because you see something you want? No, sorry - I don't agree with it. Why don't you just go find some rich person and steal all of his stuff - obviously, he works hard and makes enough money to go buy more, so where's the harm? What's the limit?

 

[TelegraphCat]

my dad worked for a shipping company for several years. he shipped through a trucking company to deliver goods. when walmart signed on the deal, they agreed to a reasonable fee for the job. after the job was done, walmart didn't make good on the deal and offered the company a much lower amount or ship it back for double the money to the shipping company. the bosses ended up taking a hit for profits so they wouldnt have to pay for the trucking company to ship the product all the way back. walmart put the company in a tight spot just to cut cost.
greedy bastards.

i don't think that stealing is ok because its not good to steal at all. if you have to at least your doing it to walmart.

 

[GyroCaptain]

Here's the thing: people like to pretend that Wal-mart is overarchingly evil beyond the imaginations of all, but conveniently forget that the mom-and-pop stores get their goods from somewhere. Take for example toys, generic foods, and tires. The local food mart, the Toys-R-Us, and the tire installation store buy from supply networks which draw off the same resources as Wal-Mart does. Those networks are where the truly staggering human rights abuses crop up, particularly for generic products, but smaller chains are every bit as guilty. I have enough experience WITH mom and pop outfits to know that they only don't get called on their shit because they're not monolithic enough to form an easy target. To assume that there's ever a threshold level of evil at which it's acceptable to steal from a corporation is badly broken logic. 'Okay, Costco raised wages in Bolivia this week, I'll only steal $10 instead of $20'?

No, just no.

 

[polygon]

I would like to know how this ridiculous "Wal-Mart is evil" meme started.
Small shop owner disgruntled because Wal-Mart had everything they had at 30% less?

 

[Ridergurl10]

Maybe I'm a little naive, but I strongly believe that it is never ok to steal. No matter what the situation is you are taking something from someone else, something that doesn't belong to you, and that other person may have worked hard to get. If you steal something it is because you are too lazy to work hard and get it the correct way.

 

[TheTygerfire]

Walmart =/= Evil.

So one shop with 5-6 employees goes out of business and people cry, but Walmart that employs 10-20x what that other store could is the fucking devil and should be burned to the ground, along with anyone that works there!

 

[GyroCaptain]

I would like to know how this ridiculous "Wal-Mart is evil" meme started.
Small shop owner disgruntled because Wal-Mart had everything they had at 30% less?

Mainly issues from Wal-Mart treating employees as disposable, offering minimal care plans/wages, and using their purchasing power to gouge suppliers/skirt regulations thither and yon. None of which is right, but little of which can be defined as a clear individual wrong in the same way that stealing from a Wal-mart is. Ultimately the people taking the hit for shoplifting are the poorly-paid section of employees and the local management. I'd have less of an issue with these warped-perspective shoplifting twats if they actually studied the policies of national chains and robbed from top-level managers.

I think it's pretty plainly an issue of trying to justify abhorrent personal behavior, though. In fact, the type of defenses posted thus far in this thread make me worry a great deal about the new blood in the escapist community.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Theft is theft, I can see the reasoning but at the end of the day he is still stealing, Walmart or no. Just because they are bastards doesn't mean that acting against them is acceptable.