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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 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.
most wage thefts are not even reported. boss makes you come in early? stay late? have lunch at your desk? answer emails and calls outside of work? those are still wage theft even if they never touch your pay check.
and if I were to put my Marx hat, then all for profit business is wage theft (although I get it is not legally so, but who made that fucking law?)
How is that measured exactly? If wage theft is able to be measured, then shouldn't the corporations be punished for it? Last year, Amazon stole from me by claiming I didn't work on days that I know for a fact I clocked in and out for, fired me over it, and then denied my appeal without reviewing any footage. I know that example is purely on experience rather than objective fact, but that's how I imagine most wage theft happens. Therefore, if it's able to be measured out reliably, then why isn't anything done towards them? Isn't wage theft highly illegal?? Or am I just ignorant???
BTW, if you see anyone stealing food, you saw nothing.
Sorry, I had an onset of sudden blindness. I didn't see anything.
when it comes to food , no ine stole shit, other than some fatass greedy cunt overcharging we humans
If there are hungry people in a state, while there are people with more resources than they can spend in a lifetime, it is the state that stole (or allowed the rich to steal) the food from the poor.
"No matter the reason, it is unacceptable and a criminal act,” Metro spokesperson Geneviève Grégoire told CBC News in a statement. ”Retail crime resulted in losses of $9.2 billion in Canada in 2024. Many factors influence food inflation, including disruptions in the global supply chain, volatility in commodity prices, changes in international trade conditions, and retail crime.”
Let me play the world's smallest violin
Take it up with the Employers under paying, the Landlords over charging, and the Goverment Officials that prioritize anyone but the poor. They got my money. Ask them for yours.
I wonder how much wage theft losses are
Metro would have done better to claim it was their idea.
Hell yea, new Christmas lore!
"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?
This is Montréal. No egg shortage here
So you're saying there's un œuf?
Stealing food….yeah I hope they get away with it in this evil dystopia
I didn't see nothing.
Damn, Santa has so many Elf mouths to feed. And don't act like we don't owe him one. Didn't see a damn thing.
The heroes this world needs.
Laurie: you were there, what did you see?
Me: sorry, mate. I didn't see anything. Must've happened while I was over by the bread.
Title is misleading. It's not theft. It's direct action.
Why can't this shit become a social media trend? Imagine countless youths getting together and doing this nationwide. Alas
FYI, "stealing food" is an oxymoron. ✊🏼
When I lived in America, My local grocery stores have those push button security gates that block people from stealing food. It's a one sided gate and people coming in has a button to open the gate.
I saw a female with a baby in a cart at the gate, waiting for someone to open it. I'm glad to be the person that let the mom through.
Huh, I thought those were largely a commonwealth thing - like the cart returns where you have to give them a coin before they'll unlock themselves. I've never seen one in the US, though there are a few one-way gates at stores near me (they don't appear to do anything though, just prevent you from going out the wrong door - I think they're just there as traffic management, they're not active)
I got 8kg or so of food today for £0.20, I don't even know how I could steal £3k worth. Loving the food discounts here before Christmas.