Not theft at all.
Whilst on one of my foraging trips for cheap booze on Le continent (Perroni £8 a box- leave the Stella and Pissport 33 to the pikeys), I saw a bottle of "Black & White" whisky on one of the shelves in the Champion store we were visiting. As it has a nice label, I was instructed to buy it by SWMBO, so in the trolley it went, off to checkout, and 48 bottles of Roc De Peyrigat- yes, thats piss as well, but she likes it- and assorted foodstuffs, all is placed in trolley and then loaded in the back of the car.
On unloading back in England, I see the whisky still has the tag thing on the top of the bottle. Shit, we did pay for it, didn't we? Check receipt- yes we did. So some french till monkey has forgotten to do it, and how to take it off without breaking bottle- remember, bottle is for aesthetic purpose, not contents.
So I'm sent off to Asda, receipt in hand, to ask if they could do it as they use the same system. Never, ever again, I was looked upon as one of the great unwashed (which the store is full of anyway), and no way they would do it as it could constitute theft- how?
Took 2 hours with a Dremel in the end.
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Sun 13 Jan 2008, 12:38, Reply)