How to Steal Food from the Supermarket

How to Steal Food from the Supermarket
1993 by J. Andrew Anderson

1. How the System Screws You 2. Reasonably Legal Methods of Reducing Your Grocery Bill 3. Illegal (But Low-Risk) Methods of Saving Money 4. Illegal Methods Short of Outright Shoplifting 5. Scamming the Scanner 6. Full-Fledged, Hard-Core, Stick-It-In-Your-Pants-And-Walk-Out-The-Door Shoplifting 7. Don’t Look Like A Shoplifter 8. Supermarket Security 9. If You Get Caught

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What I do encourage is stealing food. The grocer, regardless of what he tells us, is not a prisoner of farm prices. It has been shown time and time again that grocery prices rise whenever a drought or whatever makes a commodity scarce. But when have you seen prices decrease in the years following the drought? Not often, I’d wager.
Despite what food retailers say about profit margins, supermarkets are hugely profitable. Much of that profit, alas, comes from fraud. A consumer rights magazine recently reported that about half of all fish, for example, are overpriced and misidentified, almost always to the grocer’s advantage. In addition, most had begun to spoil and many were contaminated with toxins.
Likewise, beef and pork cuts are not always what their labels claim. It is almost impossible for the government to check the accuracy of labeling by your local butcher, and he knows it. How can you tell if the hamburger is really “85% lean?” Do you really know the difference between “prime” and “choice”? Me either, but we pay more for one than the other, even if the meat is inferior.
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LINK:
http://magbooks.org/post-2147/how-to-steal-food-from-the-supermarket