During my stint in the grocery world during my youth, those stealing food were always teens (for the thrill), junkies (stealing completely unneeded things like soda) or old ladies (stealing cat food).
I can promise that the vast majority of stores and their managers would simply let someone truly down on their luck have that loaf of bread and likely buy them more if it happened. But it doesn't.
It never does. There's homeless people who will turn down food because they're not really homeless and part of a mafia to collect money from good samaritans. Not all are like this but I've seen it more than once before.
During my stint in the grocery world during my youth, those stealing food were always teens (for the thrill), junkies (stealing completely unneeded things like soda) or old ladies (stealing cat food).
I can promise that the vast majority of stores and their managers would simply let someone truly down on their luck have that loaf of bread and likely buy them more if it happened. But it doesn't.
It never does. There's homeless people who will turn down food because they're not really homeless and part of a mafia to collect money from good samaritans. Not all are like this but I've seen it more than once before.