Is it? / Isn't it?
A few times now, I've been out grocery shopping on the weekend with Mrs & Little clouds. If we're out longer than expected and Littlecloud is getting hungry, Mrscloud thinks nothing of busting open a pack of sandwiches or whatever and feeding our young'un en-route.

She always gives them the empty packet to scan, but is it technically still shoplifting if we never left the shop?

(The grapes she gives her MUST be shoplifting as you pay by weight, but not sure about the rest)
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:40, 7 replies)

I don't like it when people do it.
Technically it's not shoplifting, but it could be classed as stealing, since it's not yours to eat yet.
( Bats, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:46, closed)

I agree
That's how I think about it, fearing that people think we're thieving pikeys who try to feed the kid before we get to the checkout.

Mrs Greencloud (perhaps rightly) doesn't give a shit and prioritises feeding our girl over such trivia.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:49, closed)

The grapes probably are
but otherwise I think you're good. Our mum used to break a bit of the french stick for us to chew. I suppose that's more obviously not stealing, as you have most of a french stick in the trolley.
(Skittlemcfluff ......................, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 16:57, closed)

Ah bollocks to it, as long as you pay eventually who cares.
I quite often go to Sainsburys after work, as soon as I step in the store I become 'hank marvin' so push the trolly round munching on a sausage roll. The check out person usually laughs when they scan the empty package.

If some jobsworth had a go, I would say "right, here's my trolly, you can put all this back" and go and pay for my sausage roll at the express check out.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:09, closed)

In the Sainsbury's training
They give you all this bollocks about how eating a grape is stealing, or reading a newspaper without buying it is also stealing
( The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 17:17, closed)

Stealing?
Only if you leave the stores premises without paying. In the trade it's called grazing.

People have been sacked for doing that.
(lordy lordy, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 18:09, closed)

It's frowned upon
but only by managers. Normal shop workers don't care, if its keeping your kid quiet then its fine by us.

Being a student I work in an Asda and was told about this recently. Technically its not shoplifting until you leave the store but shops don't like people doing it as it makes it harder for them to identify people who are trying to steal, they tolerate it only because it will lose them money if they don't. Another reason is that you could get to the checkout and not be able to pay as someone has stolen your purse in the shop or you credit card won't play ball.
(antenna, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 16:48, closed)