This article is incredibly heavy-handed with its presentation.

> Taylor said people told themselves it was a victimless crime, that theft was built into the business models of big retailers, that supermarkets were the real criminals for raising prices or that shops were ripping off farmers or their own staff.

> She said this was known as neutralisation, essentially “moral justifications that people conjure up to make themselves feel better when they’re doing something wrong”.

All the writer has done here is to say that crime is definitely always obviously wrong; all while providing a poignant counterexample.

The whole thing reads like they are simply embarrassed to admit the reality in front of them.