I have little (none, really) sympathy for national/international chains who move into neighborhoods and have very little stake in the community. Who cause the shuttering of mom and pop stores and run things homogeneously. Who pay so little that many who work at them need government assistance. Who care so little about people, that they'll only have a few cashiers (if any!) and expect everyone to become a de facto, unpaid employee to check out. I refuse. They don't train their employees well enough (most of those at the local Walmart don't know the first thing about the goods they sell in their department.), and to be honest, the employees are not being paid enough to learn. These stores are a blight on the land, and often sell inferior (grossly inferior) product.
I'm strongly against theft. But if people are so hard up that they need to resort to theft (unless they're kleptomaniacs, but the percentages indicate something more), there is a bigger problem at hand.
We should be talking about the theft of livelihoods and wages and services.
