Little perspective trick to have characters standing at different depths in the scene; if you think of the character like a geometric object like any other, they scale towards the horizon like any object. A quick way to eyeball this is they’ll intersect the horizon at the same place at any scale
You were, basically, stealing from Subway. They had their rules for their company and you decided not to abide by them. What you do with your own business is up to you but what you did was wrong at Subway.