Real New Yorkers furious over ‘microlooting’ writer’s shoplifting at local Whole Foods: ‘She is rich…I am not’

Lefty political commentator Hasan Piker and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino boasted about shoplifting on a New York Times opinion podcast that praised so-called “microlooting” as a form of anti-capitalist protest — but low-income shoppers in the Big Apple say it actually hurts their pocketbooks. 

https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/real-new-yorkers-furious-over-microlooting-writers-shoplifting-at-local-whole-foods-she-is-rich-i-am-not/