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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 79 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

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

God this story is getting better and better

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was called "Christmas of elves", not swarm.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Depends how they are deployed.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 31 minutes ago

The elves are drones, run by fiber cables

[–] bklyn@piefed.social 34 points 3 hours ago

Santa Hood and his band of Merry Elves

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 33 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 4 points 25 minutes ago

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.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 8 points 2 hours ago

So ... Half a dozen eggs?

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 8 points 2 hours ago

"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.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 hours ago

This is actual action, folks. This puts food in bellies and hurts the rich. Not a protest or a hashtag campaign.

[–] philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 hours ago

Hell yea, new Christmas lore!