People can be, and are, arrested for shoplifting Parmy... it's not about what the store can or can't tell people.

When teenagers are lifting a few packs of crisps both the shop and the police will more often than not turn a blind eye because kids are kids. They don't have the same attitude when it's full grown adults.

I don't think Parmy will be doing a stretch for a bottle of deodorant, isn't there something that police don't charge if its under 200 quid or something, which to my mind is insane

That's why I said reputational & career damage not criminal charges - they'll basically never charge/prosecute but that doesn't mean they wont arrest you (and any arrest is on file). Not really worth it for the sake of a few £ :shrug:.

You are out the shop and away before any police get involved. The shop staff cant touch you.

everything is on video these days, you may not be charged by police but appear on some persons X account as a local thief :laugh:

Exactly, you're on camera the whole way round and there's one in your face at the checkout. I'm not even saying the likelihood of getting caught it particularly high, 999 times out of 1000 absolutely nothing will happen, but the risk to gain ratio is just not worth it to save pennies on a few small items.

That said - I 100% believe that if someone is going hungry and has no money for food, I see absolutely no issue with them taking it. I don't even have a slight moral quibble over that one, especially if it's from a large corp.

I believe that's illegal.:shrug:

At last, some sense.:cheer2:

So is theft :laugh:

I do also remember going around Homebase and changing the sticky price tags on a tin of paint...:hehe:

lock Judy up she is out of control :laugh:

I do here and there, depends really. No guilt either. Tesco posting a £2.8bn profit, after raising their prices in the cost of living crisis and stating that they "understand things are hard for people". Yeah, whatever.

Never from a little independent shop though. But the big chains? Yeah, no judgement here if you take what you can.

Your honesty is admirable.
I think its outrageous what a food shop costs these days...no wonder you see so much shop lifting going on.

I know it's not "right" and all that, but meh. Billions of profit and they have the brass neck to say they "understand things are hard", raising their prices, and having the cheek to place food donation boxes in their shops? Piss off! You donate it, take a couple million out of the billions in profits, ya know?

I eat a lot of salmon and chicken for the protein and goodness, but their quality has gone down a lot recently, up the prices, produce cheaper crap. Nah, lets just say i only get the cooked chicken and salmon now, and it costs me very little.

You'll get 6 or 7 high quality chicken breasts at M&S for under £10 - sounds slightly steep but they are chonky and not pumped full of water so they actually have flavour. And they're nice 'n' tender, they don't have that weird "tough shell" that most supermarket chicken has these days. Wtf even is that.

I usually get the cooked stuff from Sainsbury's. But yeah, don't mind paying for quality. I wanna keep my muscles and 6 pack. The main mid supermarkets' chicken breast is literally awful. Chewy, watery. Even their free range eggs are kinda sh!t now.

I've noticed that - cheap eggs used to be perfectly fine but now I swear you crack one and the whites are watery?? Like if you try to fry it, it's spread thin all over the pan. Weird as fk. Never thought I'd be the one buying the £3-for-6 "golden" eggs in the fancy black box, but here I am, because you need to to get an actual normal egg. We're moving next year and my wife wants us to get chickens at our new house. I've been vetoing the idea because it will definitely, 100% be me that ends up having to clean up after these chickens, but I'm actually quite tempted by the idea of a supply of good eggs. That's what the world has come to. Having to get a decent egg directly out of a chicken. Supermarket quality standards are in the bin.

(Brexit... or tbf might just be since Covid)

Find yourself a farm shop or a butchers that sells free range, both the butchers we use sell eggs and they are delicious .... my bro in law had chickens in Ireland but they are alot of work and what do you do with them when you go away,you cant put them in kennels or take them with you :laugh: and also what happens when they get too old to lay :worry:

Yes I get mine from there...probably max of 6 now though.

:joker: at the change of title

The big trays often have a sneaky 7th one as it's by weight so it'll be either 6 very large or 7 with 4 very large and 3 "quite large".

Title needs updated again, "Chicken product tips"