Remorseless lefty shoplifters are targeting Whole Foods supermarkets, claiming they aren’t doing anything wrong because they are simply “liberating’’ items from billionaire “Lex Luthor’’ company owner Jeff Bezos.
The uber-successful businessman’s incredible wealth, the marketplace dominance of Whole Foods’ parent company Amazon and Bezos’ controversial conservative shift as owner of the Washington Post are being used by the woke criminals to justify their petty, passive-aggressive snatching of items, Business Insider reported.
Jesse, one of nearly a dozen Whole Foods thieves interviewed by the outlet, said he would often steal entire bags of groceries, including expensive steaks, from the store with his roommates.
“I never felt bad for the corporation as a whole because it was Amazon and, you know, it was Jeff Bezos,” said Jesse, a pseudonym used to conceal the identity of the 30-something tech worker.
“He just profits so much taking advantage of the little people, so if we as little people can bite back a little bit, and that’s me taking $100 maybe out of revenue for him, that’s a little bit of a middle finger,” he added.
Another regular Whole Foods thief named Carson said he and his friends joke that they’re not stealing items from the store but “liberating” them. His thefts have included a pack of smoked salmon that he stashed in his laptop case.
“It’s easy to look at [Bezos] like a Lex Luthor,” Carson said, referring to the bald “Superman” villain.
The 30-something nonprofit worker estimated that he saves about $1,000 a year ripping off Whole Foods. He also has a scheme buying hundreds of dollars worth of decorations from Amazon, using them and then returning them to get his money back.
“My lack of remorse for any of this is — it’s a big corporation. They have so much money, eggs are $10, screw them,” said another 30-something tech worker who steals from Whole Foods, reflecting the feelings of many others interviewed.
The report on the thefts comes as Teslas also are being torched and vandalized by agitators across the country in apparent protest of the electric vehicle company’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk.
Musk has taken heat over leading President Trump’s cost- and job-cutting Department of Environmental Efficiency.
He and Bezos — who also reportedly blocked the Washington Post’s endorsement of then-Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris last year — are the world’s two richest men, in that order.
Whole Foods did not return a Post request for comment Friday on the woke shoplifting.
Some of the other petty criminals told the outlet they feel “indifferent” stealing from Bezos’ businesses.
But not only are these twisted acts of protest against Bezos not only essentially ineffective at hurting the billionaire — but regular people can suffer the consequences, according to the outlet.
Dealing with retail theft — and not being able to do anything about it — can be dispiriting for store employees and in some cases can even force prices to go up for law-abiding shoppers, it noted.
John Roman, the CEO of BattlBox, which peddles outdoor gear and equipment, sells his products through Amazon, where he is able to reach a much wider audience than from his own website.
He said he is currently entrenched in a return-fraud situation involving a customer who purchased a spotlight from him off Amazon, claimed they didn’t like it and then shipped back the box with an older model inside.
Roman has filed an appeal with Amazon but doesn’t know if it will take his side. While frustrated, he said he doesn’t blame the customers for taking advantage of Amazon’s liberal return policy.
“I’m not saying I agree with it, but I fully understand the people that view that they’re giving it to ‘The Man,’ but the reality is that you are actually hurting small businesses,” he said.
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