Unfortunately, grocery stores get stolen from all of the time. From the smallest item to the largest, they’re often the easiest target for a thief to hit.
Grocery stores should not be punished for this type of thing though. I mean they have insurance that covers theft in a lot of cases, and to be perfectly fair they can’t have eyes everywhere.
That being the case, these people stealing from grocery stores is one of the ways that force prices up and make it harder for those of us who do the right thing to be able to afford things we like let alone things we need.
Shopping carts, believe it or not, are one of the things that get stolen from grocery stores the most. They are big pieces of plastic and metal that are open for pretty much anyone with at least one working hand to be able to grab. The vast majority of them don’t have any anti-theft devices on them.
And shopping carts are EXPENSIVE. I’d never really thought about the cost of a shopping cart, and if you wanted to buy a single shopping cart today it would cost you somewhere around a thousand dollars.
Yet they are one of the easiest things that you could theoretically try to steal. The grocery stores are just trying to help make our trip through the store easier. They don’t have to provide these things.
This is why it makes no sense that some cities in liberal areas want to fine grocery stores every time a shopping cart gets stolen and found near a homeless encampment.
Yeah. Liberal lawmakers in Oregon just to name one liberal haven want to start fining grocery stores a hundred bucks a pop every time a cart from one of their stores is found near a bum town.
Now I get that the homeless are the ones primarily stealing these things and abandoning them once it becomes too much of a problem for them to be near a particularly valuable piece of stolen property.
But to fine the people who are being stolen from is insane. What the heck are they supposed to do? Put GPS trackers on every last shopping cart? Install breaks that activate and lock up the second you get too far from the store?
What these liberals are asking is outright impractical. It would be like if you owned a grocery store, and every week there was a kid that came in and stole two candy bars. You’re never able to figure out who does it.
Then one day, several decades later some reject from My 600lb Life comes in and sues you because you didn’t stop them from stealing from you and they’re diabetic now.
Every time liberals try to solve a problem, three more pop up in its place.
