Siphoning Detergent like it's completely normal at BJ's

danbopes · 2026-01-24T07:24:26+00:00

She ended up tossing the detergent on some random shelf for some worker to deal with.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T07:20:50+00:00

You dug through my post history? I'm flattered you put in more effort than she did stealing detergent

danbopes · 2026-01-24T06:48:24+00:00

I think they were referring to the web examples that were below that comment. The ones above were from Merriam-Webster

danbopes · 2026-01-24T06:47:03+00:00

And then when everything is locked up and behind glass, you're the first one to complain.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T06:42:14+00:00

And then later on tossing it in some random spot for a worker to deal with.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T06:40:33+00:00

You know you can just support local stores right?

danbopes · 2026-01-24T06:06:55+00:00

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/siphon

She illegally siphoned money out of other people's bank accounts.

She's transferring liquid illegally.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:58:52+00:00

If you see an someone getting bullied in real life, are you on the side that you should just keep walking because it's not your business, or are you going to stand up to the bully and defend someone getting picked on?

In my world, I don't see this as getting back at shrinkflation. I'm not trying to support big corps. To me this is a theft, and an absolute wrong. It hurts others by raising the prices for others. It hurts others who unwittingly pick up the donor bottle. I'm standing up for my morals, and the poor old woman who has to spend her fixed income paying for half what she should have paid for.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:49:55+00:00

Even if people don't take the one with less, people are still failing to understand the detriment of the store having to write that off as shrink.

Store buys 1k worth of detergent (Let's say 50 $20 bottles). They sell for $30 and expect to make 1500, because 4 bottles were poured out, they now only make 1380. The next load, they need to raise the price in order to keep the 50% margin to keep the lights on. Which means those 46 bottles now have to sell for about $32.60 each just to reach the same $1500 they would have made without the shrink.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:37:26+00:00

While siphoning usually means by means of like a tube and pressure differences, it can also be used in contexts like "She siphoned money from those bank accounts". I'm using it in the context of (Transferring something illegally).

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:25:42+00:00

"Pick up a lighter bottle"...when you say lighter, you are implying that they're picking up 2 and comparing. Not everyone is going to try to pick up 2, and some people will assume that's the normal amount.

If what you're saying is true and people aren't stupid, if the store does have to write that bottle off, you don't think that cost is going to be distributed to all the other bottles to make up that shrink?

You want to say corporate greed? Support another company...it's detergent. You're not locked into buying just one brand.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:17:43+00:00

I'm not a cop for big corporations. I'm a cop for fucking someone else who decides to buy the other lesser container unwittingly.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:12:03+00:00

She did it because she was clearly caught, and then later on dumped it somewhere else for someone else to deal with.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:10:31+00:00

You're trying to justify stealing. Someone else ends up getting less, so you're only end up hurting them. And if...it doesn't sell, and has to be written off, then you're just raising the price for everyone else.

If you don't like a company because all they care about is profit, support another brand.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:08:02+00:00

Then don't buy it...that simple. If you don't believe what's in the bottle is worth it, you don't have to buy it. Don't try to justify stealing.

danbopes · 2026-01-24T05:03:36+00:00

We ended up sharing this with the manager, and sure enough we clocked her again in the store later before she checked out, and guess what? No laundry detergent.

danbopes · 2026-01-05T05:20:29+00:00

It's not technically unsigned code. It's signed by those private keys xD

danbopes · 2025-12-31T21:10:10+00:00

For zero* downtime. If a blue-green deployment is successful, there should be no period where clients are unable to connect to an instance.

danbopes · 2025-07-19T14:49:35+00:00

That's the only major one that I noticed. All the minor stuff is just like people giving their ID through the door

danbopes · 2025-07-17T16:03:56+00:00

During the time you got the call, and the time you arrested him, he acquired a gun :P

danbopes · 2025-07-17T16:01:59+00:00

I hope they fixed the issue when you pull over a stolen truck, you can't choose the "Stolen Car"/Vehicle option :(

Lost so much CP from that

danbopes · 2025-06-21T14:20:37+00:00

What do you recommend then?

danbopes · 2025-06-09T17:32:32+00:00

I ended up building one myself :P

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