Jia Tolentino Defends Shoplifting from Whole Foods

0:00On April 23rd, a New Yorker writer named Gia Tolentino stirred up major drama by admitting she shoplifted from Whole Foods multiple times. The 37-year-old says it's not morally wrong to take from big corporations like the Amazon own chain run by Jeff Bezos since they can. Handle the losses and allegedly mistreat workers. She lives in a $2.2 million brownstone in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill, bought last year with a $1.5 million mortgage. The couple also owns a cabin of state worth nearly $500,000. Tolentino shared this during a chat while shopping for a neighborhood friend and forgetting items like lemons, choosing to grab them without paying. Her reasoning boils down to the victim's size. Small thefts from giants don't count much morally. She even said she'd cheer on someone swiping prices R from the Louvre. Meanwhile, she noted stores lose as much to employee theft as customers. This came up in a conversation with streamer Hassan Piker, a self-described communist

1:01who backed stealing from corporations. Nier Times readers blasted the exchange, flooding comments with disgust, saying retail theft hurts everyone, including workers, and urging personal responsibility over excuses. Outlets like Daily Mail reached out for comments from Tolentino, The New Yorker, and The Times. But the debate rages on about where morality draws the. Line with corporate targets.