on one hand: shoplifters aren’t shoplifting all the time
on the other hand: there are many alternative ways for people to get food now, and I’m fine if a prior infraction raises their costs - such as needing to go to a farmers market, or needing to use a grocery delivery app so a surrogate purchases for them
I would be against this if it meant no way to get groceries
there does need to be an appeals process or way to be removed from the list
After that: If you're homeless, you can't get groceries delivered. In a food desert you might not have alternatives.
I personally believe shoplifting is not as bad as is being portrayed recently and this a solution in search of a problem.
I do it all the time.
And yes, my comment specifically factored in food deserts, everything about a higher cost of going to places with food factored in everything you thought of and was written specifically for your rebuttals.
as long as there is that alternative as opposed to no alternative
(and as long as the accusations was accurate)
I’m in favor of private sector solutions in the absence of policing.
solutions that are even more tolerable when there are additional options, as I mentioned above. if there was a real denial of service I would find that as egregious as you do.