Is this shop lifting?
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same here...how can you not wait till you get home..nobody is THAT hungry in this country..show some bloody willpower
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Ah man thats sick are you for real?
LOLOLOLOL!
This is my local Tesco.
I gues technically as they are weighted it is stealing. Unless she planned to sick it back up to be weighed and paid for...
So it's okay to shoplift as long as you're buying some other items...
I gues technically as they are weighted it is stealing. Unless she planned to sick it back up to be weighed and paid for...
So it's okay to shoplift as long as you're buying some other items...
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I think the legal in and outs can be argued until blue faces are visible all round.
From working in Tesco, grazing by the public was frowned on but tolerated up until just before I left when they put signs up around the store asking people not to do it.
Knowing the security staff still, they would probably issue just a warning but even then it would be at a push - I.e. if it was some regular scum that came in on the rinse, or if a jobsworth manager asked them to.
I doubt this would ever go to court, such is the ridiculousness of the charade, but what is more likely is that the store would be entitled to ban the offender for not respecting the stores' policy. This again is so unlikely to happen as the potential PR backlash from the offender going to the press, would cost the store far more than the 50p it would have lost in the first place.
From working in Tesco, grazing by the public was frowned on but tolerated up until just before I left when they put signs up around the store asking people not to do it.
Knowing the security staff still, they would probably issue just a warning but even then it would be at a push - I.e. if it was some regular scum that came in on the rinse, or if a jobsworth manager asked them to.
I doubt this would ever go to court, such is the ridiculousness of the charade, but what is more likely is that the store would be entitled to ban the offender for not respecting the stores' policy. This again is so unlikely to happen as the potential PR backlash from the offender going to the press, would cost the store far more than the 50p it would have lost in the first place.
Legal or not, doing this is rude as hell. Consuming something that still belongs to someone else is just not on, whether you intend to pay for it or not. The fact that people generally don't say anything does not mean its acceptable.
Also, can you imagine being handed an empty bag of crisps that a small child has slobbered all over? I've seen it happen to cashiers before and its ****ing disgusting.
Also, can you imagine being handed an empty bag of crisps that a small child has slobbered all over? I've seen it happen to cashiers before and its ****ing disgusting.
I don't really see a problem... I know it's a little iffy because it's something that's done by weight - but as a middle class friendly freedom oriented person I don't really see why if I'm really thirsty I can't drink something and put the empty on the conveyer - have done it many times and couldn't care less if it upsets some people. Remember in this world we do not have a right not to be offended.
I also have hazy memories of walking around a Morrisons after some particularly vicious space cakes basically leaning in a freezer eating bananas... I guess that may be mildly less acceptable. Tescos is ripping enough money out of us that they owe everyone who walks through their doors a banana - fact.
I also have hazy memories of walking around a Morrisons after some particularly vicious space cakes basically leaning in a freezer eating bananas... I guess that may be mildly less acceptable. Tescos is ripping enough money out of us that they owe everyone who walks through their doors a banana - fact.
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It's not theft until she leaves the store without paying for it as it's impossible to prove dishonesty (as Raymond has pointed out a number of times but people are still blindly arguing whilst ignoring the law)
The point that it may be a store which charges per kg is moot, I'm sure Tesco are more than capable of charging someone for a unknown sized banana
People are either looking at this from the wrong angle or thinking too deep.
Store policy regarding eating before purchase - irrelevant, policy is not above the law
Personal opinion on whether it is a chavy thing to do, or a disgusting habit - irrelevant.
Personal opinion on whether it is theft - unfounded, the test for theft is not a personal opinion but comes down to the test for dishonesty
As to the matter of whether it is weight or sold by unit - irrelevant, the test comes down to dishoensty. If you can't prove she never intends to pay for it then she is not guilty. How the price is measured is a whole other subject. If she has a trolley load of food, and a wallet full of cash then it would be hard to argue, over and beyond reasonable doubt that she can't afford to pay for a single banana. Push comes to shove, she can offer £10 for it, who is gonig to argue that her banana cost more than that in weight?
Don't need to think of anything else. The only question you have to ask and satisfy yourself with is:-
Can you prove she never intend to pay for the banana.
I can't, not until she walks out of the door. If she paid for the trolley full of food and didn't declare the banana then yes, stop her then, and you will have your grounds and have your mens rea.
Makes your skin crawl? It's eating food not child molestation, talk about an over reaction!
She didn't steal the banana.
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it may or may not be stealing but either way the security guard seems to of went way over board. could have just reminded her of the rules then left it at that
Nothing wrong with this, anyone who has to go shopping with kids will appreciate it.
Anyone without kids will be against it, simple.
Another jobs worth, should be sacked. Bad press and one lost customer over 1 banana. I'm sure tesco would happily hand out a free banana for every customer who spends more than £10 in store.
Anyone without kids will be against it, simple.
Another jobs worth, should be sacked. Bad press and one lost customer over 1 banana. I'm sure tesco would happily hand out a free banana for every customer who spends more than £10 in store.
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i kinder of agree ,i dont think its weird , i just think its wrong , its like when kids do it and then at the till there parents give the checkout girl there kids half eaten whatever to scan!
You what?
When I was a kid I never ate anything in the supermarket until we'd paid at the checkout and we were on our way out.
Why not just feed your kids before you go? Or if they're that bad don't take them? Their must be a reasonable alternative because to me it is just a simple case of right and wrong, and it is wrong to go around eating your shopping before you've bought it
.I'm actually quite shocked that so many people think it is normal behaviour to go around the supermarket eating and drinking the things they are going to purchase. Seriously what is wrong with you people
.Whether it's breaking the law or not I just think it is wrong. Perhaps the guard did overreact, a simple "please don't do that" should have sufficed and then throw her out if she persists.
jobsworth security nazi should be sacked imho.
I do this occassionally (not generally stuff by weight) when i go shopping with my 2 year old. I'd rather she was quiet eating/drinking something than going nuts as a distraction, and im sure other shoppers would feel the same.
Other point is that I find it far better to break a bottle of juice from a six pack than bringing in my own kids juice from home when in the supermarket. The reason is that you cant prove you didnt just nick the one you brought in from home! If you just break one out of a pack youve just put in the basket its all very obvious you havent stole it.
I do this occassionally (not generally stuff by weight) when i go shopping with my 2 year old. I'd rather she was quiet eating/drinking something than going nuts as a distraction, and im sure other shoppers would feel the same.
Other point is that I find it far better to break a bottle of juice from a six pack than bringing in my own kids juice from home when in the supermarket. The reason is that you cant prove you didnt just nick the one you brought in from home! If you just break one out of a pack youve just put in the basket its all very obvious you havent stole it.