• CluckN@lemmy.world
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    “This wasn’t just a case of someone trying to ‘meat’ their budget. This was a calculated, ‘high-steaks operation’ that left two stores with significant losses,” Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said on January 30

    Glad the sheriff is steaking this seriously.

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    So approximately $3600 between two businesses is significant losses? Wtf.

    • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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      A Publix no less, a company valued at $50 billion, who is currently facing a federal class action for forcing hourly workers to work during breaks and off the clock, and who settled a separate lawsuit in 2000 after stealing $1.1 million in wages from its employees. No arrests made for any of these thousands of thefts, yet this guy is facing felony charges for stealing a few hundred dollars in product (actual cost not ‘retail value’).

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        My conspiracy gland wonders whether that limit is ever adjusted for inflation, and since it’s (probably) not, if it’s intentional to funnel more money into the privatized prison system.