• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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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

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    “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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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

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    “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.