Is this shop lifting?

vincent1989 said:
I would actually. You must be shopping at the newer convenience stores because they're the only ones that do it differently, or so I'm informed.
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That Sainsbury's is full of people buying lunch meals, and no one buys a bunch. All the bananas are just "there" on the shelf. Everything is priced individually for SPEED. There are like 8 self service, and 3 manned tills.

I bought loads of bananas from there, never once i put anything to be weighted. Why would I make it up? :confused:
 
It's Tesco's, loose bananas are weighed usually, and it's private property so if they say no eating before paying then... My local one has regular announcements reminding customers not to consume anything before purchase because they lose so much money from it. Having worked at that same Tesco, the amount of empty food packets that are left lying about by people was ridiculous and even if they had paid for it, there's no way you could know so you had to waste it. You'd find things like half-eaten apples, empty drinks bottles, sandwich packets etc just thrown into trays. On a particularly bad week there was £36k worth of stuff that had disappeared. Shrink/unknown loss or whatever. A large % of that was theft.

Given how much stuff stores lose even on a good week, they can't afford to give people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to eating stuff on the shop floor. Too many people take the p*ss for them to let you go round eating food and being honest enough to pay for it.
 
This is how I'm imagining Raymond and Ahleckz right now.

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Raymond Lin said:
That Sainsbury's is full of people buying lunch meals, and no one buys a bunch. All the bananas are just "there" on the shelf. Everything is priced individually for SPEED. There are like 8 self service, and 3 manned tills.

I bought loads of bananas from there, never once i put anything to be weighted. Why would I make it up? :confused:
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who said that?
 
Ahleckz said:
No, you made up a scenario which would never ever happen and then expect me to make a judgement. It's just stupid.
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Made up scenario? It is the same scenario as the article !

Ok, if you are a magistrates then...and this lady comes up in front of the court, she has like £40 worth of food in the trolley, and accused of stealing a single banana.

Do you think she had the intention of stealing a single banana? at the cost of what? 55p? (at most! which is the price EAT charge for 1 banana)
 
I don't get people who do this. I really don't. So impatient. What is so important that they have to eat the banana or the packet of crisps before paying for them possible minutes later
 
Raymond Lin said:
Made up scenario? It is the same scenario as the article !

Ok, if you are a magistrates then...and this lady comes up in front of the court, she has like £40 worth of food in the trolley, and accused of stealing a single banana.

Do you think she had the intention of stealing a single banana? at the cost of what? 55p? (at most! which is the price EAT charge for 1 banana)
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You made up a scenario about me being in a jury hearing this case. It wouldn't happen and therefore it's a pointless question.
Bananas (in most supermarkets, and indeed it is how they are sold be Sainsbury's on their home shopping website so your example of unit price is odd but the city shops may have different pricing than the supermarkets). Because of this fact it is blindingly obvious that she was not going to be able to pay for the property that she took because there would be no reasonable way to determine the price that she ought to pay. Do I ever think a case like this would go to a court (much less one where a Jury sits)? No. If I was a JP would I belief that she had committed the offence? Yes.

Loving that picture! :D
 
the fact is bananas are charged at weight.

Therefore I think it's beyond reasonable doubt she didn't intend to pay for it. As they wouldn't know what to charge her.

AND it wasn't hers until she paid for it anyways ...
 
Raymond Lin said:
My bad, but before that post, you were convinced :p
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well I've worked in 4 different Sainsburys Supermarkets in the last 6 and a half years and shopped in many more, my current supermarket was one of the first to get self scans and I've worked on it and normal tills. I was unaware until a few minutes ago that the convenience (sainsburys local) stores were any different, I had to ask a mate as I wanted to make sure I wasn't going bananas :p
 
Ahleckz said:
You made up a scenario about me being in a jury hearing this case. It wouldn't happen and therefore it's a pointless question.
Bananas (in most supermarkets, and indeed it is how they are sold be Sainsbury's on their home shopping website so your example of unit price is odd but the city shops may have different pricing than the supermarkets). Because of this fact it is blindingly obvious that she was not going to be able to pay for the property that she took because there would be no reasonable way to determine the price that she ought to pay. Do I ever think a case like this would go to a court (much less one where a Jury sits)? No. If I was a JP would I belief that she had committed the offence? Yes.

Loving that picture! :D
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sigh....price like said, is irrelevance as what it comes down to is dishonesty.

If she says at the till, I am paying for this trolley of food and this banana too.

The supermarket says...can't weight it (lets just say it HAS to be weight).

So, just put 2 on there, i'll pay for that then.

Job done, you can argue that you will never be able to tell how much that single banana was worth, but you can't deny that it will cost less than 2!

The point is if you can't prove is never intend to pay then she is not shop lifting. It is that simple. And you will never able to tell until she walks out of the door.
 
If I'm really thirsty I pickup a coke, drink it and then just put the empty bottle in the basket/trolley and pay later..
 
The bananas are meant to be weighed, you aren't meant to buy them singularly (unless weighed) because you could have a 12 inch bad boy, and it'd cost the same as the reject 4 incher at the back of the bunch.

Poor design on behalf of the self-service tbh.

I'd class it as stealing, same as the people that eat half a bunch of grapes then "pay" for the rest of the bunch at the till.
 
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