Beggars outside supermarkets

I was once out in Peterborough and this guy came up to us and asked us if we could buy him some food like McDonalds or whatever.

I grew up in North London not too far from where the OP is if his forum location thing is right.

Anyway, point I'm trying to make is so used to either ignoring these people or saying no, almost like autopilot I did the same with this guy.

I really regret that now, if I could go back in time I'd bought him a big meal.

I think if people are asking for food as a pose to money you should try to help out.
 
Tony Edwards said:
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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Yeah, these scummy ***** don't intimidate me in the slightest, I'm more than capable of handling myself, but the thing is they're usually too wasted to realise what they're doing/saying and to whom. I keep telling the security at Sainsburys that if they don't do something about them that one of these times they're going to say/do something to the wrong person and they're going to have a serious assault, or worse, on their hands. It's come close a few times, but nothing too bad yet - just a broken nose and a couple of black eyes.
 
dLockers said:
Walking distance to a B&M and a Food Warehouse? No wonder you've built a defensive wall out of pallets :p
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Well it's a 30 minute walk and it's all in a outdoor retail park with a PureGym, Costa coffee, Asda and what used to be watt brothers and a few other shops like homebase which have vanished. I think Lidl has moved in recently too. It's basically all food bar the gym
 
Mujja said:
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.



And this is why we need to disinfect shopping when we bring it home ;)
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Not the fact that the employee will have touched it 30 mins before I did? Then everyone else in the supply chain.

I don't bother disinfecting anything I get stuff delivered still here and there but I just don't go out unless I really need to or for walks. For example I would have normally went to IKEA several times a year however I've just had deliveries instead even though they charge an arm and a leg for delivery I don't understand how it's £30-£50 for delivery yet same stuff from Wayfair is either free or a few quid.
 
Malevolence said:
Yeah, these scummy ***** don't intimidate me in the slightest, I'm more than capable of handling myself, but the thing is they're usually too wasted to realise what they're doing/saying and to whom. I keep telling the security at Sainsburys that if they don't do something about them that one of these times they're going to say/do something to the wrong person and they're going to have a serious assault, or worse, on their hands. It's come close a few times, but nothing too bad yet - just a broken nose and a couple of black eyes.
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Where the hell do you live?
 
Before lock down, I commuted to London every day. There’s a reasonably big Sainsbury’s by Farringdon station, there was always a guy begging there. He was polite, we would nod at each other every day. But I once saw him with two mobiles though!!!

It’s the ones with animals that pull on my heart strings, but I still don’t tend to give them money.
 
lol .. some of these beggars get up after a days work and climb into there bmw 5 series ... seen one guy in blackpool with £150 nike trainers on .. i'm like i can't afford those (not that i would karrimor for me )
 
Here in Glasgow we have organised beggers who get dropped off in BMW's lol
Is it racist to talk about it if it's actually true?
I remember as a teenager jumping the bus into town with my pal to go to John Menzies, They had the Turtles arcade machine in there at the time,
As we were walking by M&S there was a Begger about the same age as I am now with a cup filled to the brim with pound coins, yet I felt the urge to add a pound to it as i'm a softie, My pal was raging with me as that was 7 goes on the arcade machine.
 
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Around my local shop, there always used to be the same women begging but she was wearing nice colthes, looked well put together. I don't give out any money, either they are scams or go towards drugs/booze.
 
Beggers aren't a problem to me, as already said, it's the idiot public inside the store that are more of an issue
 
When I was a young lad working at Safeway in Rutherglen there was a local old tramp that used to come in for the reduced stuff, Henry was his name, very polite just he's had a poor life.
When I started in Asda I laughed when I saw him there too, looking for the bargains, One of the women I worked with told me he was well known and that her mother knew him before he hit hard times and that he was a ladies man in his younger years.
The woman I worked with took pity on him one Christmas day and went round to his home (not sure what type of home he had) with a Christmas dinner plate. He died a few years ago.
He seemed to like me, One time I was having bother from a group of neds and noticed them at the other end of the main st, I was aww noo, then I spied Henry and spoke to him, He said he would get rid of them if I bought him a bag of chips lol.
maybe a bit like Moss from the IT Crowd in the park lol....I've got a ruddy gun.
 
mumihp said:
Around my local shop, there always used to be the same women begging but she was wearing nice colthes, looked well put together. I don't give out any money, either they are scams or go towards drugs/booze.
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As the proverb goes though, what were you planning on spending it on? :p
 
Plenty of beggars aren't homeless and plenty of homeless don't beg.

The supermarket beggars I've seen have frequently been Romanian types, at some shops they seem to rotate - also some Romanian/Gypsy type person though, clearly part of an organised group.

Should really look at rounding some of them up and shipping them back to Romania now we're out of the EU, ditto to the various scammers/three cups game types etc...

If homeless people want to sleep in doorways at night and not bother anyone etc.. then I'd be inclined to say they should be left to it, so long as they know where help is available and have the option of going to a shelter etc.. but prefer to stay on the streets then their call. Beggars on the other hand, especially when they become a pest and start hassling people ar supermarkets or cash machines etc.. should be health with by the authorities. Its easy as a bloke to say they don't intimidate you, some skinny smackhead type or random Romanian woman etc.. aren't necessarily much of a threat but imagine your mum or gran or anyone else just wanting to mind their own business and go to the shop or use a cash machine etc..
 
They're pretty harmless here in Stafford and I've certainly never seen them camping our supermarkets.

There is an outdoor enclosure between Home Bargains and a defunct Argos/Peacocks, with a circular bench + tree in the middle of the enclosure. The beggars camp with their sleeping bags in the shielded entrances of the ex-Argos and Peacocks that face each other. I sit on that bench sometimes and never had any trouble. Never given them anything, but I'm cashless these days anyway.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
They're pretty harmless here in Stafford and I've certainly never seen them camping our supermarkets.

There is an outdoor enclosure between Home Bargains and a defunct Argos/Peacocks, with a circular bench + tree in the middle of the enclosure. The beggars camp with their sleeping bags in the shielded entrances of the ex-Argos and Peacocks that face each other. I sit on that bench sometimes and never had any trouble. Never given them anything, but I'm cashless these days anyway.
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We have Yak Yak Land just down the road - https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/take-tour-yak-yak-land-4624276 during the day they're all shuffling about the streets off their heads on dust and God knows what else, like something out of The Walking Dead, whilst others are making a nuisance of themselves by demanding money with menaces begging outside of Sainsburys.
 
Used to be a young chap outside the new exit of East Croydon Station a few years back. He'd also sit outside the coop near there too. We used to say hello to each other and I'd buy him drinks and sandwiches but then one day he got cheeky and asked for SCRATCHCARDS. after that I just tried to avoid him. Was more than happy to give him food, everyone needs food but if he won £50k scratchie off me I'd be livid haha
 
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