Shop Lifting

[Barrel of Fun]

What crime is the cut off point for the 'nobody likes a grass' gang?

 

[terryberry1]

Anyone on here who says that they do not steal at least 50% of their weekly grocery shopping is LIAR....

 

[Muzzy]

Anyone on here who says that they do not steal at least 50% of their weekly grocery shopping is LIAR....

I'm a liar then Tel..... How is this feat possible? Please tell? Or am i missing a point?

 

[Driver8]

What crime is the cut off point for the 'nobody likes a grass' gang?

When it affects them personally I expect.

 

[BensGrandad]

A stocktaker once told me that Tesco allow 1% of store turnover for shoplifting and reduced prices for short date goods etc.

 

[terryberry1]

I'm a liar then Tel..... How is this feat possible? Please tell? Or am i missing a point?

 

[RexCathedra]

Need to have the glasses checked. I thought it said 'Stop lifting' and I said to myself 'Good advice. Knew it couldn't be good for you.
Of course I, pear-shaped. smartypants that I am, never started lifting.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm a liar then Tel..... How is this feat possible? Please tell? Or am i missing a point?

Quite feasible to steal water and pinch the odd cigarette, assuming Terry is a supermodel.

 

[Muzzy]

If I got home from work and found some tosser filling a swag bag with my possessions and I battered the f*** out of them, this board would be patting me on the back.

But, because some fucker is adding to the cost of my shopping bill by stealing, that is deemed as acceptable, and it would be wrong to report someone?

I probably wouldn't "grass" but I also wouldn't knock someone else that would.

Strange world we live in

 

[Barrel of Fun]

When it affects them personally I expect.

Yes, sadly.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

The whole no-one-likes-a-grass 'argument' (if you can dignify it by calling it that) is something that is rightfully discarded when most people leave childhood. I'm surprised people are choosing to revive it here. What next, an argument that stealing is OK because the shops 'started it' (through dodgy discount practices)? Actually, I think that one's already been used here.

 

[The Modfather]

I thought all kids nicked sweets from the local newsagent. Seems it was just me

 

[Justice]

I was in ASDA in Crawley once and a woman took a cooked chicken off of the heated counter and a pack of 6 cokes and broke the chicken up between her 3 children and herself and then gave each one a bottle of coke and had one herself,which they all consumed in the corner of the shop. I told a security man and he said he could do nothing until thy had passed through the till because they would say they kept the bar code and was going to pay for it at the checkout, believe she would have done so if you will. I don't, but then I am a cynic.

What did it have to do with you what she did? have you got nothing better to do than grass up some lady feeding her children?

 

[Meade's Ball]

I have only been to Waitrose on a few occasions, the main one being when i found £40 in the gutter outside an Odeon cinema a few years back. I decided to spoil myself with a half-filled basket of their grub with that amount of cash. If on any of those days i'd seen someone pocketing a pack of their calves livers and a smoked duck pate, then i wouldn't rush to security to hand them in. If someone is pilfering from big business i am not outraged and not really of the belief that fining one person who had the mind to nick the unaffordable from a huge corporation would help fight price rises in-store. Theft from small shops and of course individuals is usually unacceptable, but if someone broke into my house and stole a baguette and a litre of soya milk, i wouldn't run around crying about it or think it was naturally step 1 on an unstoppable life of crime for this ghastly fiend.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

I got done when I was 12 for trying to steal some money from a fairground stall. Bloke gave me a smack in the mouth and sent me on my way.

So much simpler in those days.

 

[Baaaald]

Out of curiosity, why did you feel the need to tell the security? I know it's breaking the law blah blah but it didn't have nothing to do with you and wouldn't effect you whatsoever? If I saw someone doing it in likes of Waitrose, ASDA, Sainsbury's etc then it wouldn't bother me one jot, different if it was something like your local shop, that's when I'd expect people to say something.

Waitrose won't be losing out a shed load of money will they..

I work for one of the four you named there trust me we lose a shit load of money through thieving bastards. Well done that man for pointing it out.

 

[User removed 4]

I work for one of the four you named there trust me we lose a shit load of money through thieving bastards. Well done that man for pointing it out.

I hope you're not employed to cash up the tills, he only mentioned three.

 

[KNC]

Have you ever done this? I saw some one in Waitrose today shop lifting and told the security guard. The man who was caught was unhappy with me for pointing out what he was doing.

They have a Waitrose in Albania-by-Sea!!!!!! I'm surprised.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I hope you're not employed to cash up the tills, he only mentioned three.

That was a bit of an unfortunate faux pas.

 

[Baaaald]

I hope you're not employed to cash up the tills, he only mentioned three.

Fortunately not! Although I think you might have missed the point.