Poll: Is it culturally acceptable to steal from walmart?

[DrunkenKitty]

It's not culturally acceptable. If it was, he wouldn't have to be sneaky about it.

Granted, it's better that he's stealing from Walmart than a small business, but that's like saying I'd rather be shot in the foot than in the chest.

He steals. He's a thief. No rationalization changes that. He feels it's ok to steal from Walmart because he's developed a justification for it. That means he would steal from me, or you, or anyone else as long as he feels justified in it. I'd be more discerning about who I spent my time with if I were you.

 

[kdragon1010]

Its funny when I'm in wal-mart and I see someone trying to steal something and I tell em if they try to I'll inform the store staff and they get all pissed. Especially when one of them tried to hit me after I turned him in and I put him on the floor. Not only did wal-mart press shoplifting charges but he got slapped with assault too. I love stupid people they're so entertaining.

But to answer your question, no its not okay.

 

[ExplosionProofTaco]

We don't Have walmart Down here in New zealand.

We have a place called 'The Warehouse' (They call it that because It is a fuck-huge warehouse full of shit you can buy) It is like walmart, but without the evil. It's also painted red, So it will go faster.

You steal from that store and Overlord John Key will come to your house and fuck up your Shit. Serious Business

 

[blindey]

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.

This, basically. I agree.

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.

Sounds like your friend is a douche teenager (Don't we all go through a socialist/communist/anarchist phase when we're young? xD) who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, trying to "justify" stealing from you know "the big evil corporation". Well you know what? That's BULLSHIT. I can't emphasize that enough. As above mentioned : Doesn't matter if you disagree with their policies of price, wage to employees or foreign labor (all debatable. I will debate these if you'd like :3), it's NOT ok to steal stuff from them. Like also was said, if it was food and he was poor, I'd feel differently too (not any less bad, there's services available) but at leas that's a tad more understandable, if anything. Tell me, is he like some starbucks-drinking pseudo-intellectual? (I love starbucks, by the way) I'm gonna spark the debate here: I support sweatshops. (No, not as an end) They provide some money to often children in a 3rd world country that the result would be prostitution, working in the fields, etc.

You wanna protest Wal*Mart? Fine, that's cool. Boycott them, get people to. That's the way the world works: MONEY. Also the secret to world peace (counterintuitive but yeah), trade, an open market. I'm gonna make analogous statement to PETA: If they JUST were about demonstrating and not eating animals etc that'd be fine (they'd still be retarded in my opinion with their level of extremism but they'd be tolerable). The thing that makes them NOT TOLERABLE is stuff like supporting the ALF, firebombing state research centres, and making death threats against people for eating meat.

by the way: To OP and everyone else - The QUESTION is it CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE (ie I'm just gonna guess a 1st world country), NOT is it acceptable to you or your morals. The short answer is unless you live in...I wouldn't even know where that'd be appropariate but anyway, it's not culturally acceptable. End of story. Now if you want to debate whether it's morally or not that's a different story.

 

[Fightgarr]

I can't enter a Wal-Mart without getting dizzy. I don't go in there. Therefore I don't steal from there. It feels wrong for me to steal from any place I actually buy things at. The exception to this would be at an EB Games I used to work at where one of my ex-coworkers looked the other way while I put the Mass Effect concept art book in by backpack. As far as we could see though, EB Games had made us work so much unpaid overtime, and cinched us of every dollar they could to the point where I felt that I deserved a lot more than a free art book. I guess that's kind of an eye for an eye view from me, and I'm not saying that stealing the book was right... in fact... I don't know what my point was here. Anyway, the book is awesome... and I guess I don't really condone stealing for any purpose other than actual need (example: your family is starving and you have no money nor a job at the moment, I condone you stealing food).

 

[GyroCaptain]

by the way: To OP and everyone else - The QUESTION is it CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE (ie I'm just gonna guess a 1st world country), NOT is it acceptable to you or your morals. The short answer is unless you live in...I wouldn't even know where that'd be appropariate but anyway, it's not culturally acceptable. End of story. Now if you want to debate whether it's morally or not that's a different story.

Yeah, the question had an obvious answer, but everyone assumed it was a different question. Thus, I was playing along. Off topic, is your name a reference to the famed blue magic expert Blindy O'Sightless (8-Bit Theater)?

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

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.

Dirty pricks. But to have such an large organisation you have to be ruthless to keep the stakeholders happy. I'm in no way justifying their actions but it's the nature of mega retail.

If you don't like Wall-Mart, don't shop there. Yes, they commit wrongs - so put your money towards another company you like or don't mind. It may cost an little extra but thats the price you pay for having a choice other than WALL-MART, which is one I would take.

 

[DrunkenKitty]

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?

I deleted the paragraph where I berate for your ignorance. You have internet access. You're ignorant on this issue because you choose to be.

Walmart being evil is not an idea that's solely propagated by young, liberal, 4chan lurkers. There's safety inspectors, civil rights groups, and economists that will tell you how evil Walmart is.

Walmart is fine if you're not against child-labor, racketeering, civil rights violations, poisoning public water supplies, union rights, withholding of wages, and sucking the soul out of small towns.

Have some fun with google! Try these enlightening search terms:

Walmart lawsuit
Walmart settlement
Walmart civil rights
Walmart economy
Walmart child labor

Walmart is the embodiment of international globalization and why capitolism is failing.

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Walmart: The high Cost of Low Price [http://www.amazon.com/Wal-Mart-High-Cost-Low-Price/dp/B000BTH4K4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233641526&sr=8-1]
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Slam Dunking Walmart [http://www.amazon.com/Slam-Dunking-Wal-Mart-Al-Norman/dp/097115421X/ref=pd_sim_b_14]
Life with Walmart: A Vendor's story [http://www.amazon.com/Life-Walmart-Vendors-Kunmi-Oluleye/dp/0965480135/ref=pd_sim_b_27]

 

[jim_doki]

stealing is stealing

 

[Silver]

While I think capitalism is wrong, and Wal-mart a shining example of capitalism, that doesn't make stealing things right.

Even if they were wrong in how they aquired those things, by their production methods or whatever, you comitting more wrongs isn't going to help, and it's not right. I don't have a personal relationship with Wal-mart, but I really don't see what the big deal is. They provide a service you're very thankful for, they wouldn't be there if they weren't. Pretending to hate them for it, or consider them evil about it isn't going to work. If they were evil, if you all did hate them, they wouldn't be around, because you wouldn't buy stuff there. Simple as.

No, you can't steal. Even if they are evil and don't deserve what they have, why shoud you?

 

[Jamash]

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

Actually, 'There' is spelt 'their', as in "their business practices".

It's not "they are business practices", because that doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, as long as the thief in question realises that it's also culturally acceptable for him to be arrested, prosecuted and sent to jail if he gets caught, then I guess it's acceptable for him to steal.

However, if he's a thief with double standards, then it's not acceptable at all.

 

[Corpse XxX]

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.

Agree.. Second that!

 

[Dele]

How about the most logical answer....

There are multiple cultures. The answer you will get to your question might be yes or no depending on the culture you ask from.

 

[Houmand]

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

First you correct him saying it's "WALLMART", and in the second half of your comment you spell it Walmart.
Does anyone see the irony in this?
C'mon!

 

[Markness]

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.

Would you be ok with a hobo coming into your house and stealing all your silverware?

 

[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.

Would you be ok with a hobo coming into your house and stealing all your silverware?

What possible reason would he have for stealing all my silverware? Stealing all of my silverware would clearly make me feel an impact and thus be against what I said.
I think it entirely possible to justify the action of stealing in some situations. Note that I'm not justifying everyday theft or his friend, I think that on average people steel out of greed and not need.

 

[The Iron Ninja]

We don't Have walmart Down here in New zealand.

We have a place called 'The Warehouse' (They call it that because It is a fuck-huge warehouse full of shit you can buy) It is like walmart, but without the evil. It's also painted red, So it will go faster.

You steal from that store and Overlord John Key will come to your house and fuck up your Shit. Serious Business

It's true, I've seen it happen.
Scary stuff.

As fer all you free livin', non-John Key fearin' Americans (and people from wherever else this mart of walls has spread to).
Stealing is not culturally acceptable.
Whether it's from Walmart or not makes absolutely no difference.

 

[theultimateend]

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.

You know how I steal from Walmart?

I never set foot in their football field sized parking lots let alone in their doors.

Walmart is the EA version of retail stores to me, they don't deserve my time or money .

 

[Arcticflame]

Remember kids, Stores factor shoplifting into their prices, so if you don't do it, it's like they're getting money for free!