Beggars outside supermarkets

dowie said:
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..
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Pfft, the police doesn't have time for that when they've been pointlessly tasked with enforcing a policy that everyone can see is a miserable failure, that being drug prohibition.

A lot of homeless people (if we ignore the gangs for a moment) suffer from that policy and it may very well be the reason they're homeless in the first place, so I think we ought to confront that before further burdening the police/judiciary.
 
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I used to offer one of my sandwiches (packed lunch) to beggars when I encountered them at red lights on highway off-ramps. After 4 or 5 refusals from different beggers, I stopped offering.
 
tamzzy said:
Same. If asked for money I just ignore and walk on by. But if they ask for food I'll get a meal deal sandwich for them and a couple chocolates
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If you got asked for food when you went in the store, then again when you left the store, two or three times a week every week, you'd buy a meal deal sandwich and chocolates for all of them every time? Sure you would.
 
Reminds me of the time the GF and myself were in town on a Tuesday getting the Tuesday cheap drinks, Sat outside and a begger came up to us, we gave him £1 and he went away, 2mins later another one came up to us and we gave him £1, then another one came up and we clicked to what was going on...Like Pidgeons, we said no and moved on to the next pub.
 
Merlin5 said:
If you got asked for food when you went in the store, then again when you left the store, two or three times a week every week, you'd buy a meal deal sandwich and chocolates for all of them every time? Sure you would.
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Probably not. Most of em want cash. So easily ignored. Only a handful of times I've actually had to buy food
 
I respect people doing good deeds with the homeless, but in today world people feel the need to post their good deeds on FB and twitter don't they? which kind of null and voids the good deed doesn't it.
 
dunno why but I'm finding the 'don't see beggars outside Aldi' mentioned twice on the first page quite funny :p

I don't enjoy going to the shops but still rather that than waiting for a delivery, even if it's just a 1 hour slot...there's sometimes a Big Issue guy outside my local Morrisons but no beggars I can remember...it's pretty isolated and not in the best area so I guess that helps...

gave a beggar/homeless guy in Glasgow a Victoria sponge that I'd been given as a birthday cake before a night out once.. he just started pissin it laughing :o
 
Yes see this all the time at my local Tesco. There's 2 guys who are there literally every day asking for money. It's extremely annoying and I get tempted to be rude and tell them to **** off, or get into a conversation explaining how I earn my money so won't be giving it away for free, and they should try doing the same. But then I realise it's not even worth my time or effort so just tell them a polite 'No sorry' and carry on walking.

Really they should just go inside and steal whatever they want. The Tesco security do nothing anyway even to shoplifters.
 
Merlin5 said:
What if you need something immediately, like a pint of milk, packet of biscuits, fresh fish or a bag of Haribo? Isn't there a delivery charge for online groceries?
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I pay a delivery subscription then deliveries over 40 quid have no charge. Two deliveries a week, never run out of anything then and good for fresh stuff.
 
tamzzy said:
Probably not. Most of em want cash. So easily ignored. Only a handful of times I've actually had to buy food
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My wife used to work on Rathbone St. W.1, and walk down Rathbone Place to Oxford St to flag a Black Cab home with 3 co-workers at the end of the day.
A guy with the inevitable dog an a piece of rope would sit by the ATM in Rathbone Place, (when it was there), mooching for money.
One day she offered him about £8.00 worth of luncheon vouchers, he threw them back and said, “Poke them up your ****.”
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Fresher longer lasting produce for a start.

Here's your bread type goods all of them dated for a day.

Same goes for veg and fridge stuff.

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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I think in all my years of online shopping I've had a handful of short dated items but they tell you at delivery and you can choose to reject and get a refund on the item, so its not really an issue.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Never I'm not sure we have them in Scotland we do have a Waitrose and a marks and Spencer but never used either for delivery only in store
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So how do you know they send out short dated items?

It is something they DON'T do as they know they'll just get loads of rejections and pee thier customers off.
 
Malevolence said:
Been like this for ages around here. This is from a couple of years ago and it's even worse now.
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Just an FYI, lots of charities now issue homeless with laptops/tablets/mobile phones. It helps them access council services. A supermarket is a good placed to spend the day - free WiFi. The homeless shelter I volunteer at has lockable recharge stations to charge the devices overnight.
 
Reality|Bites said:
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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I visited Glasgow a few years ago for work. As my employer was tight about travel expenses he booked me on an overnight MegaBus so I arrived early hours and witnessed a transit minibus dropping off several "beggars", none of which were speaking English as they were conversing.

And no, it's not racist, but there will be some posters on here that will call you out as though it is.
 
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