@Nintendoforlife well, the fact alone that police was involved (the picture in the article was taken at the police station, you can tell by the hats), the story is in the newspaper and we are talking about it means the guy is under public scrutiny. This is basically plain shoplifting, nothing more elaborate than that, and shoplifters do not go in the newspapers unless they nick gold or something.

As for the strike, I'm not sure they reached any significant conclusion as of the latest strike of Dec.20. There has been a lot of coverage on national TV, and before the strike a few journalists managed to sneak in hidden cameras (entering and shooting is highly forbidden in these facilities, for obvious reasons). They discovered that the employees are constantly timed. Basically every time they pick an object, there's a countdown to pick the next, as in a collectathon from the 90s. If they don't pick a certain number of objects from the shelves within a certain time frame, they get penalised. For this, they are requested to "fast walk" (basically run) an average of 12 miles a day. There's also a timer that keeps track of how much time they spend in the bathroom. And this is a tough job where all you do is basically lifting objects. It really must get on your tits after a while, hence the strike.

So yeah, I'm not saying the guy's a martyr or anything, but a multi-billion colossus such as Amazon could have handled things differently without alerting police, press and stuff. I mean, somebody stole my car a few years ago, worth much more than €160 (but not "that" much) and when we found it, it didn't even get mentioned in the local news, let alone in a foreign website of car fanatics.