 Theft is on the rise but not just at American grocery stores this is even happening at stores in Australia so I guess the question is worldwide speaking what's going on? Yeah man look at the headlines recently in America it just went viral because San Francisco Safeways are implementing a high-tech exit door where you have to scan your receipt to leave the store obviously this is a very expensive system that Safeway is implementing to curb shop lifting. Shane has added new security measures at stores around the Bay Area and Don Lin shows us the changes designed to slow down shoplifters. You have a good day. Thank you. Have a nice day. It's almost like the Bart Fairgate scan a receipt the two glass doors slide open Safeway shopping gates including the Mission Street store in the Excelsior district. Yeah no I mean shop lifting is running rampant it's chasing out a lot of stores there's even a store in New York a right aid that closed down because they were losing like $2,000 a day. I actually think they closed 300 of them around America due to shoplifting primarily or poor performance some combination of the two. And it's not just from grocery stores and corporations even people a lot of cars are getting stolen IKEA's were getting stolen because people learn how to hack them and then there was a lot of car parts that people are stealing so I guess there's just a lot of stealing nowadays and so I guess the question is is like what's going on guys this is not just an America problem the headlines are global and Australia supermarket giants high-end Canadian grocery stores and we're talking about from petty to FETI when I say FETI I meant whatever FETI WAP dinner didn't do and grentheft auto of course guys let's get into it later wait let's be honest there is a stew of factors right right a lot of people always want to point out the carrots or the beef or the spices but guess what in a stew Andrew they're all stewed together over time yeah I guess when you are watching this video you can think about which how would you rank the factors and what are the biggest reasons for this I think one reason is in my opinion is that people don't mind stealing from corporations the whole Robin Hood idea these are vendetta yeah because they're like corporations have been stealing from us all they care about a shareholders they're jacking up prices they don't care about the regular people I'm just gonna steal number two it is like the prosecution of crimes and petty theft obviously you know in San Francisco a lot of people were stealing up to what $950 because as long as it was under a thousand yeah you pretty much couldn't do anything right right so then obviously people were stealing a lot of stuff right so if you're and then security guards can't chase people down it's a liability all this other stuff and then also I other thing on my list is that I think social media like there's a lot of information out there on how to steal and it's kind of like cool to steal stuff now are you referring to the Kia challenge I mean that was one of them and then I think just like I'm sure if you dive deep enough on any platform there's probably you know hacks for everything I think there's something to the social media angle because there's so many people flexing Andrew whether that's legitimate gains fake gains or illegitimate real gains that they've gained through whatever scamming you know crypto schemes you know NFTs you know only fans sugar babies selling courses stock options with high risk volatility and those people seem like they're having a good time whether or not like we don't know the reality but they're flexing on everybody else that's going to send a signal and a more macro sense to a population like oh these people are getting all this money doing these things why not well what's a petty crime in comparison oh you're right and at the end of the day people can rationalize it saying oh what I stole 50 bucks from this corporation who cares I got what I needed and then also I'm not gonna lie there's a whole black market on reselling grocery store items you think people are just stealing a whole bunch of like medicine from like right-aid and Walgreens just for themselves to use because they got a headache no they're gonna resell it right absolutely let's get into the comment session guys keep it civil let us know what you think in the comment section down below right now is shoplifting or petty crimes or just theft an issue in your city right now I mean let's be honest Andrew it's big enough that we got to cover it this comment said listen people are trying to steal food instead of making food cheaper and more accessible to those people companies pay more to securitize the food and not give food security to the people in the most expensive region in the state of the country no less sickening so this is sort of like blaming it on the machine and the system saying listen the system made people insecure so they're trying to secure their diets by doing something illegal right it's for sure man especially with inflation and prices rising at the grocery store like man I do think something needs to step in I'm I'm assuming it'd be the government to help push down prices right especially in especially in the cities that need help there is macro downside pressure on the poor demographics in America right dude if you're poor and you're not making any more money at your job and then eggs are getting more expensive are 30% more expensive that's cutting into your life but of course Andrew there's a lot of valid arguments against this well and somebody from SF said and people wonder why SF is going to ish look at this comment basically saying like so what are you saying like just bad everybody's gonna break the law and the whole society is gonna fall apart right right it's definitely I mean I don't think either comments solve anything they're just different perspectives somebody said would you open your own market and then practice what you preach by just giving away everything that you worked hard for this person's taking more than what the perspective of a small business owner themselves a small market entrepreneur I do think that in general there's just a lot more distrust in the big systems that usually we're running the country like behind the scenes but now there's so many documentaries or so much conspiracy theories and so much information about how they run and then so you almost get to know a corporation better and therefore you feel less bad about stealing from them it's true it's true it's true somebody said these thieves are driving up the prices and causing stores to close yeah so here's another thing it is true if you steal enough from a store that store is probably gonna close down eventually and then there's no store there so now you're hurting that community maybe you're not from that community or maybe it is your community but either way if you steal from store in your community and that store shuts down somebody said but there are still plenty of agencies that give food away for free there's a ebt there's etc etc it depends on what state and county you're in but there are multiple programs to solve this this other person came back and said get off capitalism's D just because it didn't screw you guys or your groups or your families as much you guys will never understand I do think I am aware I don't know how prevalent that the free food is but I'm pretty sure the other side of it is the black market that people want to resell stuff on right no you see it in let's be honest in New York people getting a bunch of Ferrero Roches and going straight to the let's be so honest the old Asians they like Ferrero Roche selling it on the low it's weird yeah there's a there's a market for it though yeah I mean like we said like you could just put stuff out on a blanket nowadays if you're in like a certain big city right but like we said people got bad situations that they're going through to I have a lot of empathy for that too somebody said but these grocery stores made so much money during COVID for the execs and the shareholders well this is it goes sort of goes back to what you're saying and are not just saying like disconnected from corporations people literally see that those stocks or those valuations went during a period where that's the only place you could buy from somebody says you guys would have no idea what it's like until you are in that situation yeah I mean I do I do think that's true but I guess what's the solution here then somebody said let's just make it life harder for everybody because we won't prosecute crime how about a thousand hours of community service and someone said let's be honest in 2023 nobody cares about the community anymore you somebody says well these will be everywhere soon like basically people are saying this is just gonna encourage new technology to come into play like people are basically gonna put up these high-tech doors and spend more money no to secure like those Amazon go stores where you just pick an item up and then it scans and then you buy it as you walk out that's gonna be more prevalent yeah somebody says yeah man it's all about Japan how come we can't have our moral fiber like Japan yeah the classic why can't we be like Japan dude and then somebody said do you know what the Japanese did in World War two and someone said yeah they were really evil in World War two but they still didn't steal that aspect of morality is just or violation of morality is not part of their nature dude that's really funny I saw this one quote from the former US labor secretary and he said follow the money the story is clear food corporations are using inflation as a cover-up to jack up prices yeah now is inflation real or is it is the other other grocery stores jacking up the price too much how do you feel about your grocery store where you live you know like do you feel like the prices have been going up and then of course and you get the comment this is only in the Democrat state only a Democrat state would allow the whole city to just fall apart turn into Gotham yeah yeah no I'm pretty sure people are stealing probably from in every state in America yeah I mean long story short man Andrew aren't a lot of things a reason pizza and the reason pizza or pie has different slices just like any sort of pie chart that they give in any sort of company presentation yeah you know just like I don't think you're ever gonna like slow down innovation of new technologies and I think a lot of people when they get new technology they use it to just commit crimes more efficiently but now what's gonna happen is that you're gonna be using technology to up the surveillance up the security doors up that whole like the whole concept of the Amazon go where you already your cards in once you walk in and then anything you walk out with you already bought and I believe the New York MTA is trying to think of a better turnstile to stop people from stealing subway fares yeah yeah yeah listen everybody at the end of the day the more people that want to steal the more security measures there's gonna be and then you think walking into a grocery store David in 20 years from now it's not gonna be the same man Andrew let's take it back to a Kant the philosopher Andrew has the social contract been violated yeah I do think that there has to be some type of reconciliation between like the regular people in the corporations and I'm not like against capitalism obviously right you know I'm along with it but at the end of the day it's like yeah man like the government corporations everybody's got to do a little bit better because everybody's basically just acting crazy right because the corporations are trying to squeeze the consumers the consumers they're feeling like very rebellious and it's not good for either side to be honest right I think honestly this is my big takeaway that I think is gonna happen I think like you said we're gonna be moving more towards higher tech things delivery there's gonna be a point Andrew where delivery is cheaper than going to the store you know why because they're not gonna have to deal with any loss of slippage or theft right and they're not gonna need to deal with overhead costs so actually they're gonna lower the price online so even with the delivery it's still cheaper than you going to the store and buying it yeah if you think about it less a few less people are shopping at grocery stores because now you got gopuff and all these other deliveries what it depends on what state you're in but there's like a hundred of them right those stores those warehouses don't get rated and stolen from like the public stores do so it's really actually man those public stores unfortunately are really paying the cost right now man and I'm sure they're big corporations obviously I think like the CEO's eating fine but they lose enough money and people lose jobs that's just gonna create more people without jobs and then it could be just a cycle so yeah also you know what's interesting about America Andrew is there could be theoretically in increased surveillance with you know obviously the progress in AI but that's also potentially gonna go against some American ideals or at least the way a lot of people interpret American ideals so I guess in your guys opinion knowing all this or having this conversation what do you think is an actual possible solution is it just who will vote the Republican team don't solve everything I don't think that's necessarily true and then I'm also like okay so I guess is it just make food cheaper okay how do you make food cheap what's the yeah I'm with you know dude I went to Canada they got these like really cheap I don't know if their government subsidized stores but gives you know how the exchange rate with Canada like they're very cheap yeah like they they push this like government orange juice down to like two dollars for a big two-liter I saw it with my own eyes I was in Canada because obviously that's more they have a they have a different system in regards to capitalism right so anyway guys pros and cons of every package just like I always say man any NBA team always pros and cons to every offensive and defensive scheme they run let us know what you guys think in the comments section below where are we headed what can be done keep it civil until next time with a hop-hop boys we out peace