ShopliftingWhen I was young and impressionable and on holiday in France, I followed some friends into a sweet shop and we each stole something. I was so mortified by this, I returned them.
My lack of French hampered this somewhat - they had no idea why the small English boy wanted to add some chews to the open box, and saw it as an attempt by a nasty foreigner oik to contaminate their stock. Not my best day.
What have you lifted?
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chthonic, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 11:13)
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TescosLittle tescos, the 'express' ones, dont give a toss about shoplifting. I stood next to a branch manager watching a 40 something couple literally fill every pocket and bag with stuff and walk out. The manager just sighed and said, "what you gonna do?" and went back to shouting at the checkout staff. Seriously. They're rubbish. (Tesco bosses - it was the little one in Heaton Moor if you want to sack the stupid cow).
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I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 8:15,
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Tesco gives stuff awayMy wife works on the tills at Tesco. Just before Christmas there was a problem with the scanners on most of the 20 or so tills - the till monkey (i can call them that, she looks like one) would scan the item, the thing would beep and they would carry on. Problem was that roughly one in 10 would beep but not register on the bill. If they were not looking at the screen after every item they would not realise it had not swiped properly.
The bosses comment on this ' Yeah, we know, we are trying to get through to the call centre in India, just let them have it for free'
This went on for weeks before it got fixed. I shudder to think how much stuff was simply just given away.
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With profits of over 2 billion.And over an eighth of all money spent on the high street, spent there, I doubt they care.
And that's just England, it doesn't even count Tesco Lotus.
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The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 8:40,
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.Its not just tescos.
The problem is that detaining a shoplifter, waiting for the police, fannying about with statements etc, possibly having to give time off to staff to appear in court....its all a massive inconvenience for the shop staff and if they are short-staffed anyway, it just makes things even worse. And even if it does get to court, what happens? the shoplifter gets told off and maybe 20 minutes community service.
Its just not worth the bother to prosecute.
Plus there is always the chance that when trying to stop someone, they will go mental and get violen, pull a knife or whatever...no one wants to risk it.
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