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Your local Kroger isn't robbing you. Neither are their suppliers in general, but even so you are not punishing them by shoplifting. The store already paid the producer for it regardless of whether the item is sold or stolen, meaning they don't care either way.
If you want to steal, that's your prerogative, but don't pretend that you're morally justified to take out your frustrations on someone unrelated.
Whatever a "Kroger" might be, but luckily the world has morally intact people like you! And I'm not frustrated, it's not about the money, it's the principle. Someone in the chain did raise prices for items I can't boycott, I don't care who. Also I don't need justification. To whom should I justity? to you? lol.
Kroger is a grocery chain in the US that is attempting to monopolize grocery stores.
It is always moral and just to steal from Kroger.
Monopolize? Great. Should I ever visit the US (no I would not), I'd go there and steal a lot :)
The bad news is Kroger isn't everywhere.
The good news is you don't actually have to go to a Kroger.
You can go to any of: Bakers, City Market, Dillons, Food4Less, frys, Foods Co, Fred Myer, Gerber Market, Harris Market, Jay C, King Super, Mariano's, Metro Market, PayLess, QFC, Ralphs, Ruler Foods, or Smith's food and drug, and steal from them.
And if it's not those is probably Safeway.
Not sure which is worse
Kroger is a supermarket chain in much of the US, but some of their stores use different branding. I just meant it to be a recognizable example of somewhere you might get your groceries.
When I said frustrated, I meant in a general sense about the economy, as in higher grocery prices. But I guess I did misunderstand your motivation for this. So it's not about how much suppliers/stores are actually charging, just that they raised prices at all? And you view that as stealing?
And I guess that's the problem in my eyes. If you intend to punish someone, it should be focussed on whoever is responsible. I'm sure you would agree it is unreasonable to yell at a cashier when your card gets declined for example. I'm also skeptical that you can't boycott, but without specifics I'll have to take your word for it.
I judged you because you shared this with other people on the thread, which I view as inviting feedback. But you are right that my opinion isn't important. What matters is that you can justify your actions to yourself. Whatever your morals are, I doubt it includes indiscriminate punishment. Maybe ask yourself things like, "What would it be like if everyone acted the way I do?" or "Will this lead to things getting better or worse?".
How could one boycott food? Especially if literally everything went up? I can stop buying cars or whatever else, but not food.
Hence yes, it's stealing. Not in a technical sense OFC. And it's not because a good became more scarce or anything, but just greed. Plain and simple.
Also yes, it's not the grocery's fault. But as said, can't rob a factory or a CEO. And as everyone is raking in record profits, it's fine.
As a sided note: I didn't raise prices of my stuff and I also didn't raise rents of my apartments (I'm still just at covering costs, not earning). We're doing good, employees happy, why should I? To expand? To have more stuff? Greed has no limit, and with things like rent or food, people have no choice to "vote with their wallet".