Shoplifting(and egg tips). Have you ever.
 

What do you think of shop lifters?

I bought 2 chargers for my phone this summer, one was the wrong one and the other one stopped 2orking after a few days( one of those furry felt ones) so I bought another one..same thing happened..so I nicked the next one, and it broke. So I nicked one of the soft plasticy white cables ones..best one yet..

I also pinch the small rolls of sure deodorant cause it fits nicely in my pocket.

Ever since we were fed horse meat, I've been terrible for it..always big companies though, never small local shops, I like ny fingers intact.


What's your views on shoplifters and shoplifting, and have you done it?

In my teens. Never since. Used to take magazines from the corner shop and stuff them under my coat.

Used to do it as a teen and sell on the stuff

No, never knowingly. I have walked out of a shop with something in my hand, quite unintentionally, and been too embarrassed to go back in case they arrested me. I was quite young at the time, maybe 13 or 14. Can't even remember what it was... something small and inexpensive.

Chupa chup lolly?

Yes if it doesn't scan and I put it on the shelf and it just accepts it, I think to myself I am doing the job of a shop assistant and your bloody scanners dont even work properly and its obviously destined to be a gift to me for my hard work :laugh: I would never in a small shop though, I have returned money when too much has been handed to me, or if a shop assistant even in a big store made a mistake with change I would give it back as they might get into trouble if their till doesn't add up

There was a local continental store/butcher’s I used to frequent a little when I was at uni. Let’s just say I didn’t always pay for as much okra, duck or chicken as I bought.

Last thing i shoplifted (long time ago now) was a pair of black trousers . much needed for my mothers funeral :hehe:

When I was very little. But only a sweet and I haven't done to since.

No.
When my brother and I were about 6 and 8 he told me to take an apple from the greengrocer.
As soon as we got home he told my mother.
She battered me all the way back to the shop to apologise.
Never again.

I got arrested for it when I was 16....30 mins before I was due to sit a GCSE. One of the school governors was a local magistrate and so school asked him to speak to the desk sergeant and we were bailed for the weekend so we could go and sit the exam. Had to go back on the following Monday and was cautioned. It was a biology exam I had to sit and the sergeant asked me what an amoeba was, I told him (cockily) that it was a single celled organism.....he shouted "is that what you have instead of a brain?" :laugh: Mortifying. Never done it since :laugh:

Went into a Tesco superstore once and bought 9 bottles of wine on offer all the same…had about 30.00 worth of goods aswell. Gave one bottle of wine to the cashier and told her I had 10 of them…then I realised I had got 9 not 10 so she refunded one. Total bill came to 30.00 ish. Realising she had only put 1 bottle through in the first transaction then refunded 1….i realised she hadn’t charged me for any wine at all.
The walk back to my car was the longest…:laugh:

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Love it...I could get on board with 9 free bottles of wine :laugh:

Not Rusti outing herself as Judy Finnegan :hee:

:joker:

When i was a young lad, Cherie used to give me a shilling a week to be her mule in Tesco's

I shoplifted when I was younger but I wouldn’t do it now. I remember when I was about 18-19 me and my friends would go Asda and buy a crate of beer then go back in with the receipt, pick up another box and just walk out. Managed to get away with 5 crates of beer one time. :laugh:

In my day you could go into a shop with a pound and come out with 3 comics, a couple of bars of chocolate, a couple of packets of crisps, some chewing gum and a bottle of coca cola.

Then they put CCTV in their shops.

Technically I did once. It was Christmas Eve, I stood in line for self checkout forever at Walmart. Found out too late the gift tape I was holding was from a busted pack. Now, logically from my time in retail, I know its not going to be repacked. It is trash. I took it anyway thinking I was doing salespeople a favor but felt weird about it, so never again...

Aaah the days before PC

it was too much :fist:

I mean it's not really worth the risk is it, so not since I was maybe 15/16 :joker:.

My eldest went on a proper spree once when she was 3 years old. We had the youngest (then aged 1) in the buggy, 3-year-old walking alongside at the supermarket, got our shopping, walked home, went to get the baby bag ... the basket under the buggy was FULL of sweets and biscuits. Dozens of items :omgno:. To this day I have no idea how she did it so stealthily.

What risk?

The realistic risk is career & reputational damage. If you don't have to worry about those then prosecution risk is very low, so carry on pocketing penny sweets I guess.

Why would your reputation be tarnished? The shop cant disclose any information about an individual due to GDPR breaches..:shocked:

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.