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1 can, sure.
2 cans, maybe.
But when I see some asshole load up a cart and start booking it towards the nearest fire door? Yeah, I'm stopping you.
Someone once stole half a fucking oxen of meat and his excuse was "I need to feed my family". My dude, is your family 50 people?
Remember that "feeding 50 people once" is the same as feeding 10 people 5 times. With a large family, that could be as little as a week of food.
Sure, but maybe my comment demanded some context. Beef is expensive compared to many other meats where I'm from and this person literally stole the most expensive cuts only, in amounts that came to huge sums. Their explanation made no sense, since there are far better things to steal if all you want to do is feed your family. He was caught with so much that it was unreal.
I wouldn't have brought it up in this thread unless it was weird, because I do believe stealing food from the supermarket isn't immoral if you truly need to do it to feed yourself. Not that I see it happen ever, y'know.
edit: made a clarification
We had a problem in my country a few years ago where large numbers of people would buy up a heap of baby formula so that they can resell it overseas at a massive profit. Enough that stores had to put caps on how many you're allowed to buy, and local parents still frequently couldn't get their hands on it.
They weren't generally stealing, but if they were, you bet I'd report that. And if they were noticeably going back in to buy more than the limit.