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Keelija9000 t1_j7hsm9v wrote

Even if I recognized them I don’t recognize them

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j7hwvbd wrote

If you can clear $1000 from a single Sunglass Hut in one visit, you should automatically pass the mission and get immunity.

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7i1obe wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,738,922)

Excuse me buddy??? I know if I was the victim in this case, I would want these low lives' photo plastered on every single lamp post and media page in the state. Try throwing a little empathy around. It takes a special kind of person to sympathize with a thief, and I do NOT mean that in any complimentary way.

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listen_youse t1_j7i2bf9 wrote

Landlord steals $1400 keeping your rent deposit? - call the cops and get laughed at. Then read a fawning profile of the newest real estate tycoon in Go Local.

$1400 wage theft? Not Our Department says the cops.

$1400 in sunglasses that probably cost $2 each to manufacture? Ah, now this is why cops have guns. Film at 11:00!

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7i34ib wrote

Replying to listen_youse (#1,739,234)

Just another clown who has no idea what they are talking about. The landlord "theft" is a civil matter that typically goes right to court. Wage theft involves filing a complaint through the state Dept. of Labor. Neither are police matters. Larceny from a store IS a police matter. Go back to your video games son.

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slipperysuarez t1_j7i7481 wrote

I was not expecting people on here to be siding with the criminals.

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Muezza t1_j7i9t59 wrote

Either that's like two pairs of sunglasses at MSRP or around 2800 pairs at their actual cost.

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degggendorf t1_j7iivzp wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,738,922)

Funny how only this one particular petty crime got posted too, with a clearly photographed, clearly Black person. Maybe I'm just jaded by other blatant racism bubbling up, but this feels odd.

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Ashleej86 t1_j7ipfxz wrote

The crime is charging $1400 for sun glasses

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noobengland t1_j7iqaxq wrote

The related article headlines are amazing

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bigbutterenergy t1_j7iqouu wrote

please won’t someone think of sunglass hut in this trying time???

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listen_youse t1_j7ixu73 wrote

Replying to Orangefan71 (#1,739,287)

>Neither are police matters. Larceny from a store IS a police matter.

What makes you think I needed to have this explained to me?

We are both saying the same thing. There are 2 systems of justice: Crimes that can only be committed by privileged people are politely handled in one system. Another system of violence, profiling, intimidation and so called street justice applies to other kinds of people.

Media (with your assistance here on reddit) stir up outrage over crimes committed by poor people in disproportion to the harm inflicted by privileged wrongdoers.

We only differ in that you seem to think this is fine while I do not.

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listen_youse t1_j7j0rvb wrote

Replying to slipperysuarez (#1,739,495)

It is not "siding with the criminals" to be sick and tired of racist fearmongering bullshit while monopolies, corruption, union busting, and predatory business practices cost every last one of us a lot more than $1400 all the damn time and the media could be doing stories about that.

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MonicaPVD t1_j7j737z wrote

That's three pairs of Dolce or Tiffany glasses at retail there.

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7jcivg wrote

Replying to beta_vulgaris (#1,739,820)

You think it's overpriced, then how bout this...DON'T FUCKIN BUY IT. Some of you people have clearly never owned or managed a business before, never mind held a real job. Heck from the sounds of it, I doubt half the posters here even graduated high school.

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7jcuoc wrote

Replying to Ashleej86 (#1,740,456)

>The crime is charging $1400 for sun glasses

So another one blaming the victim. Do you have any idea how much shoplifting costs the consumer every year, as well as the taxpayer and ultimately our economy? Don't side with the thieves. They are all scum.

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7jdjud wrote

Replying to listen_youse (#1,740,929)

Deflection at its finest. Nobody said anything about any of those other things being OK, but if you have recent local examples by all means post them. None them however, excuse the actions of these horrible excuses for women. They need to pay.

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7je1ed wrote

Replying to Ashleej86 (#1,741,668)

>It's a store. A corporation. It's victimless. No one was hurt.

Try again. The business was victimized. The customer who they will pass the costs along to was victimized. The taxpayer who now has to pay for the justice system to address this was victimized. I could go on.

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Sarcofaygo t1_j7joyrq wrote

Replying to noobengland (#1,740,504)

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degggendorf t1_j7kfv5v wrote

Replying to sqiub23 (#1,743,008)

I personally enjoy research and trust my own work over anything I read on reddit, and thought that the person I was responding to might be the type to reject anything anyone else says too based on their combative comments.

But here's the short version: Luxottica is basically a vertically-integrated monopoly. It's not as simple as "Think Sunglass Hut is too expensive? Don't buy it, go to a different store" because Luxottica owns that store too. Okay fine, skip the stores and just get some mall kiosk glasses. Wait no, Luxottica owns that too. Okay well then at least I'll make sure I'm getting high quality expensive glasses direct from the Ray-Ban store. Oops! Luxottica owns them too. Fine, I'll go to Ray-Ban's competition. No, Oakley is owned by them too. Okay well at least I can trust my independent optician to sell quality goods. Oh sorry, no they only sell Luxottica brands and get kickbacks for selling them too. Okay I give up, I'm just going to get glasses at Walmart. Except Luxottica owns that Foster Grant brand too. How about Walmart's competition then? Nope, Luxottica directly own Target Optical.

Beyond that, those seemingly all-encompassing first-party retail brands are only 60% of their business. The other 40% is wholesale glasses and components to other brands, so even your non-Luxottica glasses could be Luxottica.

I don't think a typical person could name a store that doesn't sell Luxottica glasses.

Here's some more info on their business model from an unbiased (or at least biased toward the company) business analysis source: https://fourweekmba.com/vertically-integrated-business-model/

And here's a partial list of Luxottica brands:

  • Alain Mikli

  • Arnette eyewear

  • Costa Del Mar

  • Eye Safety Systems (ESS)

  • Luxottica

  • Native Eyewear

  • Oakley

  • Oliver Peoples

  • Persol

  • Ray-Ban

  • Sferoflex

  • Vogue Eyewear

  • Giorgio Armani

  • Armani Exchange

  • Brooks Brothers

  • Bulgari

  • Burberry

  • Chanel

  • Coach

  • Dolce & Gabbana

  • Emporio Armani

  • Michael Kors

  • Miu Miu

  • Polo Ralph Lauren

  • Prada

  • Ralph Eyewear

  • Ralph Lauren

  • Scuderia Ferrari

  • Starck Biotech Paris

  • Tiffany & Co.

  • Tory Burch

  • Valentino

  • Versace

  • Sunglass Hut

  • Apex by Sunglass Hut

  • Sunglass Outfitters

  • Spectacle Hut

  • LensCrafters

  • Pearle Vision

  • Target Optical

  • OPSM

  • ILORI

  • EyeMed Vision Care

  • Optical Shop of Aspen

  • Laubman & Pank

  • GMO

  • Oliver Peoples

  • Alain Mikli

  • Oakley

  • David Clulow

  • Glasses.com

  • Econópticas

  • Paris De Gaulle

  • John Lewis Opticians

  • Salmoiraghi e Viganò

  • Óticas Carol

  • VistaSì

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica#Monopolistic_pricing_practices

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abovaveragefox t1_j7kij3z wrote

Replying to listen_youse (#1,740,929)

Is there no value in protecting business owners from getting robbed? Or trying to stop people from committing the crimes? Stealing sunglasses is just an unnecessary insult to society. You can buy them anywhere for 5 bucks, it's not like they were doing robin hood shit and donating them to the less fortunate. People commit crimes, but other people that aren't poor commit crimes so don't try to enforce laws on them unless you get these other "privileged" groups is the worst thought process. All of them are bad, no need to knock any process that brings criminals to justice.

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BrandonC41 t1_j7kshct wrote

On an unrelated note, where can I get some cheap sunglasses?

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Bobisadrummer t1_j7ksiqx wrote

Notice how police always seek the publics help when it comes to theft from business and not from everyday citizens?

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7l341g wrote

Replying to Bobisadrummer (#1,744,034)

Bullshit. There have been multiple occasions where police have shared photos of thieves caught stealing from private homes and vehicles, etc.., when footage is available. You are going out of your way to defend this scum, which is shameful.

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leavingthecold t1_j7l3utr wrote

You know theie not poor and destitute stealing to feed a family more likely to feed themselves. For some reason I feel they are from out of state.

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rye8901 t1_j7lbpua wrote

You know up is now down when the majority of redditors seem to be on the side of the thieves

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sc00p401 t1_j7lhljw wrote

Replying to Bobisadrummer (#1,744,034)

Yeah.. where were the police when the cronies on the RIPUC voted to approve a 47% rate increase in electric rates, which RI Energy's phone agents (who live in Indiana) now claim "was voted for and approved by all of us who live here"?

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j7mnlsm wrote

Anyone else have trouble sleeping last night knowing that these two criminals are still on the loose and that THEY PROBABLY LOOK COOL?

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TheOGJayRussle t1_j7p37lq wrote

She shoulda stole some pants her lips are hanging out.

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BobJacobs2022 t1_j7q8suv wrote

Haha.....

"Hope they get caught"- downvoted

"POOR Mr Sunglass Hut, who cares" - up voted.

We are so ass backward.....

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7qdfkh wrote

Replying to rye8901 (#1,745,162)

> You know up is now down when the majority of redditors seem to be on the side of the thieves

Many worthless kids sitting around their mama's basement posting on multiple alt accounts.

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7qdpkp wrote

Replying to degggendorf (#1,744,641)

> From where/which glasses?

Last was a pair of Oakleys that I bought on special for around ~$90. Can't remember the site. I've also bought cheaper at TJ Maxx, Marshall's etc.that were totally fine.

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degggendorf t1_j7qesp2 wrote

Replying to Orangefan71 (#1,755,000)

> Last was a pair of Oakleys that I bought on special for around ~$90.

......that's still Luxottica, which is my whole point. "Don't like it, just avoid them" doesn't really work when it's a functional monopoly.

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Orangefan71 OP t1_j7qfh78 wrote

Replying to degggendorf (#1,755,058)

  1. I only purchase them if they offer them at a reasonable price that i have the means to pay.

  2. If they do not, I don't give them my business. Simple as that. Can find stuff at TJ Maxx, Job Lot, etc. that does just fine.

  3. DOES NOT GIVE ANYBODY THE RIGHT TO STEAL!

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7w9cuv wrote

Replying to Orangefan71 (#1,741,674)

Fuck those overpriced corporate bastards, nobody needs to pay. Corporate profits have increased by thousands of percentage points over the last few years meanwhile the wages of those doing the actual work have not so I don’t give one fucking shit about rich people loosing money when they already have enough of it and normal working class people can’t afford rent food never mind save enough to own a home or retire in their lifetime.

How does the boot you kick taste? You missed a little bit of shit in the heel there son.

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7waiti wrote

Replying to BobJacobs2022 (#1,754,721)

No when corporate profits have ballooned thousands of percentage points meanwhile wages have remained low that’s the correct attitude. Fuck the rich capitalism is a system built in exploitation it’s right in the word itself. The intransitive verb at the root of capitalism “capitalize” is synonymous with “to take advantage of” and “to exploit” those sunglasses with $1400 retail value are worth not even 50% of that as soon as they are sold, most of them will end up in a landfill within a few months after they are sold. But please tell me more why I should feel bad about w Kathy bastards selling over priced garbage made by exploited people in third world countries paid less than $10 a day to manufacture dozens of sunglasses selling for hundreds of dollars each when they pay their store front retail workers garbage so they can’t afford to pay rent, pay for food, never mind save money to retire in old age?

Median rent in Providence and surrounding-areas for a 2 bedroom apartment is $1900 a month and full time minimum wage earns you $2140 BEFORE taxes but yes keep licking boots and defending the rich while you blame the dirty pipes for not having 3 roommates to cut costs and blame them for their avacado toast addiction why don’t you tell them to get a better job while simultaneously telling them oh geez nobody wants to work anymore! Because you can’t walk in and out of a Starbucks in 1 minute with your $6 latte because all these corporations want to pay literal shit so that the asshole garbage people at the top can spend more on weekend vacations than you will earn in 3 lifetimes of full time labor.

What a joke you corporate ass suckers are.

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7waudz wrote

Replying to Uncle_Tony96 (#1,740,464)

How much did it take to manufacture those goods! How many underpaid exploited laborers in third world countries were stepped on for those products to be shipped here and then be sold by someone who isn’t making enough money to afford rent and other basic living expenses.

If you have sympathy for corporations loosing profit and not the workers they exploit to take those profits from you then you have your head up your ass.

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7wb57n wrote

Replying to Orangefan71 (#1,741,635)

Corporations are not victims they are the victimizers by stealing from the poor and stealing wages from those doing the work to maintain the bourgeois lifestyle of those who own these companies that is the real crime. Are you so oblivious to the fact that these sunglasses were made in 3rd world countries by exploited laborers who earn less than $3 an hour and work 10+ hour days? Fuck sunglasses but

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7wbkoo wrote

Replying to Orangefan71 (#1,741,704)

It doesn’t matter if they are robbed or not corporations use EVERY REASON THEY CAN FIND UNDER THE SUN!! To raise their retail prices while using EVERY REASON UNDER THE SUN to keep their wages as low as possible. You are such a bootlicking capitalist appologist. There is no reason anyone should feel bad for rich people right now they are responsible for this horrible society we live in where war and prisons are over funded and the homeless population gallons meanwhile it’s such a mystery why nobody would want to work when it’s been obvious for decades that working full time doesn’t earn a life worth living unless you’re an exploitative corporate executive who steps on others to get ahead

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7wbykc wrote

Replying to Orangefan71 (#1,741,855)

Ignoring the theft of the corporate class because it’s been accepted and legalized by a social system that was once built on chattel slavery is demeaning to your humanity.

If corporations want us to be so sad when they loose the ability to pay their executives more bonuses then they already receive maybe they should offer their “EsSeNtIaL” workers a living wage with benefits and vacation time maybe workers deserve a life worth living instead of this garbage system that was clearly intended to be a replacment for slavery now that the rich can’t overtly own human beings. What a joke you people are

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7wckya wrote

Replying to MonicaPVD (#1,741,376)

Oh no!!!! how will sunglass butt CEO’s afford their next yacht or weekend vacation that costs what their retail laborers earn in multiple lifetimes of full time work!?!? It’s a travesty a sham and a mockery!! It’s a travashamockery!!!!

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7wg1ro wrote

Replying to Uncle_Tony96 (#1,765,653)

Police need to exist but discriminatory ideologies like the war on drugs which was entirely built on racial and socio economic discrimination does not. Police might have a little more respect in society if a majority of their funding wasn’t to harass people who sell drugs to consenting adults. It’s ridiculous that people selling drugs to consenting adults get threatened with decades of prison time meanwhile when Jeffery Epstein raped children he served 14 months with 72 hours weekly work release. Defund the police is the wrong slogan but ending the illegal unconstitutional prohibition of mind altering substances would effectively defund the police. Meanwhile more people die as a result of consuming alcohol and tobacco every year than do of all illegal drugs combined. But you conservatives are just too stupid to understand logic.

Companies who’s products are made for pennys by paying children and other exploited people in countries where they have no labor rights and then go and pay laborers in America wages that don’t afford them to have a life worth living they deserve no sympathy. They shouldn’t be allowed to run their buisiness model only exists because they can legally get away with stepping on people. These companies don’t deserve the right to make profits when the cost for their products is kept artificially low by stepping on weak human beings who have no means to fight their own exploitation. And the prices they sell these products for is just disgusting. As soon as those sunglasses walk out the door they loose more than half their value and then they’ll end up in a landfill less then 6 months after they’ve been purchased. But go ahead and defend the indefensible.

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7wgsz4 wrote

Replying to Uncle_Tony96 (#1,741,853)

You shouldn’t be expecting any more than the people working the counter at sunglass hut since you think that’s a fair wake for corporations to pay their employees you shouldn’t expect to be paid anymore yourself. So hop to it and solve that crime for $13.50 an hour!

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BobJacobs2022 t1_j7wlm9n wrote

Replying to ExploitedAmerican (#1,765,467)

Lmao....who gives a flying fuck how expensive they are and how much they charge. Stealing is wrong no matter the price of any item. Most people who aren't POS just don't shop at those places and take their hard earn money to places they can afford. We don't steal because "fuck them for charging to much." Those women stole cuae they know just how expensive those glasses are and they know how much they can get. They didn't steal 10$ crappy glasses, did they? I shop where I can afford and don't steal from places I can't. Get a fucking grip man/women.

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ExploitedAmerican t1_j7wmwm1 wrote

Replying to BobJacobs2022 (#1,766,112)

Fuck companies that exploit workers and sell their products for unreasonable amounts. I don’t care what you say above. Consumerism is a death cult and the only reason people buy this crap is because rich people have presented the idea that it’s worth owning. Those plastic crap glasses with maybe a small pellet of gold or jewels on them cost less than $10 to make per pair. And are sold by people who can’t even afford to pay rent because the company making the profits doesn’t care about its workers and would just buy slaves if it was legal to do so. But go ahead and tell me why that is defensible in any way shape or form.

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BobJacobs2022 t1_j7wnk99 wrote

Replying to ExploitedAmerican (#1,766,172)

Don't shop there... don't buy their products....they will go out of business.... stealing is wrong no matter what. It's pretty fucking simple. I don't care what companies charge for products. If it doesn't fit my budget, I don't shop there. I don't steal from there either. No one is forcing anyone to work there. Don't like the pay, then find another job. Don't like how the charge for their products, shop elsewhere, don't like the salary, find another job.

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harpy_1121 t1_j7xfmmz wrote

Replying to Orangefan71 (#1,754,984)

Yep, anyone who has another point of view than yours must be younger and uneducated. And there can’t be multiple people who disagree with you, it’s just one or two who post from multiple accounts to fight with you. Lmao makes sense.

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