Beggars outside supermarkets

robfosters said:
I use Ocado for M&S delivery. It’s pretty good. Good slot availability and not as expensive as it used to be. They do a 3 for £10 deal which includes some lovely stuff.
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I just checked no ocado available for my post code anyway. We do have an m&s nearby but the Waitrose is about 10 minutes away.

Quite good here actually walking distance there is an Aldi, Asda, Lidl, food warehouse and a b&m.

By car you have pretty much everything else within 10 minutes and most within 5 minutes like Morrisons which is my preferred shop. As much as I like m&s the shop is tiny and its only really good for a small shop.
 
Last time I went to Asda there were 6 gypsies having a fight in the foyer. Immediately turned round and went home instead.
 
Waitrose has gone right downhill over the last few years. Too much costcutting, a lot like of it is overpriced rubbish now. Nothing like it used to be.
 
theone8181 said:
Plot twist, they're nit beggers they're employees of lidl/aldi to try and scare people away from the other supermarkets:cry:.
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When I used to work at a retailer, the store manager used to spend Christmas Eve doing Click and Collect on all of our competitors to tie their stock up :p
 
Psycho Sonny said:
I just checked no ocado available for my post code anyway. We do have an m&s nearby but the Waitrose is about 10 minutes away.

Quite good here actually walking distance there is an Aldi, Asda, Lidl, food warehouse and a b&m.

By car you have pretty much everything else within 10 minutes and most within 5 minutes like Morrisons which is my preferred shop. As much as I like m&s the shop is tiny and its only really good for a small shop.
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Walking distance to a B&M and a Food Warehouse? No wonder you've built a defensive wall out of pallets :p
 
Been like this for ages around here. This is from a couple of years ago and it's even worse now.

Malevolence said:
We have really aggressive beggars (smackheads, dustheads and alchies from the local Sally Ann) who sit around the cash machines at Sainsbury's trying to intimidate people into giving them money. More than once I've been threatened with a dirty needle because I told 'em where to go. Sainsbury's security won't fo anything because every time they move them on they come back and smash windows on the shop, so it's costing them money. The police won't do anything because, and this is straight from the mouth of a local copper, once they do they then have a duty of care to look after these parasites and to keep them fed and watered only for them to be let out again in a few hours with no charges.

They also have a new tactic now too, if somebody falls for their act and does stop to give them cash then another one tries to lift whatever they can out of the person's shopping trolley.

It's got to a point now where a few of my Mother's friends feel too intimidated to go and do their shopping alone.

This one even has a ******* laptop/tablet.

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We have some outside our local Tesco. One of the guys has been there for as long as I've been living in the area, so that's at least ten years. Always asks for money. I see him every time I go.

Another woman hangs out there regularly, utter scum. She vaulted the gate to our block and then started stashing drugs in one of the abandoned cars there. She has a friend/accomplice too who she verbally abuses and treats like utter crap. It's quite sad that this other woman takes it. In the end one of the residents got photos of her and informed the police. Now the building management have installed spiked plants all along the fences in order to deter people from jumping over.

I'm sure some of these people make quite a lot of money. If I hadn't read about the 'gutterpunk' movement I wouldn't have believed that some people actually choose to be homeless.
 
My local asda always had beggars outside, they look like druggies or alcoholics.

They're easily intimidated to move on though.

at height off first lockdown when there were big queues outside the manager was trying to get rid of them the police were useless.

I bet if they were sitting on a park bench though.....
 
I stopped carrying cash several years back. When I did have cash, I would usually give something to polite beggars. The ones near the cashpoint used to worry me, thought I was going to get mugged.

Psycho Sonny said:
I actively walk around checking dates and moving stuff and getting the stuff with the longest on it to prevent waste.
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And this is why we need to disinfect shopping when we bring it home ;)
 
The ones outside the Sainsburys (in my previous post) have started to smash windows if they're asked to move by security, so now they don't bother asking them and just let them get on with taking drugs, begging, anti-social behaviour and verbally and physically abusing customers. They're usually manic dustheads, but last week there was one of them sat by the trolleys, with his trousers and pants pulled down, injecting into his groin.
 
Malevolence said:
The ones outside the Sainsburys (in my previous post) have started to smash windows if they're asked to move by security, so now they don't bother asking them and just let them get on with taking drugs, begging, anti-social behaviour and verbally and physically abusing customers. They're usually manic dustheads, but last week there was one of them sat by the trolleys, with his trousers and pants pulled down, injecting into his groin.
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I know it's not meant to be funny, but this made me lol.
 
Malevolence said:
The ones outside the Sainsburys (in my previous post) have started to smash windows if they're asked to move by security, so now they don't bother asking them and just let them get on with taking drugs, begging, anti-social behaviour and verbally and physically abusing customers. They're usually manic dustheads, but last week there was one of them sat by the trolleys, with his trousers and pants pulled down, injecting into his groin.
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Manic dustheads. I like that :D
 
Malevolence said:
The ones outside the Sainsburys (in my previous post) have started to smash windows if they're asked to move by security, so now they don't bother asking them and just let them get on with taking drugs, begging, anti-social behaviour and verbally and physically abusing customers. They're usually manic dustheads, but last week there was one of them sat by the trolleys, with his trousers and pants pulled down, injecting into his groin.
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Makes you wonder what misfortune they have had in their life to end up being like this. Such a shame. They were a little baby once. Makes me weep for humanity.
 
Never know which ones are legit or just money grabbers these days, headphones on wherever I go now. Self scan and no noise is awesome
 
The worst thing about this post is that that isnt a laptop. Its the bar running around that pillar.

Malevolence said:
Been like this for ages around here. This is from a couple of years ago and it's even worse now.
Malevolence said:
We have really aggressive beggars (smackheads, dustheads and alchies from the local Sally Ann) who sit around the cash machines at Sainsbury's trying to intimidate people into giving them money. More than once I've been threatened with a dirty needle because I told 'em to go. Sainsbury's security won't fo anything because...

This one even has a ******* laptop/tablet.

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I have certainly seen beggars at supermarkets but I have never seen an aggressive beggar at a supermarket, but maybe thats because I dont feel threatened that easily. I dont know.
 
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