In my eyes it is stealing.

[Dave7]

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Calm it,i wasn't condoning it. I was just saying what they described it as.

I dont think that your post did condone it.
Calm down, calm down (scouse accent needed).

 

[Accy cyclist]

I dont think that your post did condone it.

Well,then we're all ok about it. Mmm,let us move on.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I sense the people doing this are a tribe of people who think they are owed a favour. Sainsbury’s has profit because they shop there so they think they are entitled to a bit themselves. I stand in the school gate queue and listen to a gaggle of mums who work in supermarkets. It isn’t only customers thieving from the shelves put it that way.

I spent a couple of decades in Africa. There was a cultural understanding that if you didn’t look after your belongings in a way that stopped them being nicked, it was your fault. Not the fault of the thief. ‘Thou shalt not tempt’ was a card left in hotel rooms indemnifying hotel staff should a guest’s belongings go missing. It was madness. There was a saying that went, ‘Even if you bolt it down, the bolts will get nicked.’

 

[MarkF]

In my eyes, it's an inconsequential nothingness. A chocolate got stolen from a box in a supermarket, my life goes on.

 

[Levo-Lon]

In my eyes, it's an inconsequential nothingness. A chocolate got stolen from a box in a supermarket, my life goes on.

Same as a laptop being nicked from an ambulance or a school then..awesome

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I sense the people doing this are a tribe of people who think they are owed a favour. Sainsbury’s has profit because they shop there so they think they are entitled to a bit themselves. I stand in the school gate queue and listen to a gaggle of mums who work in supermarkets. It isn’t only customers thieving from the shelves put it that way.

I spent a couple of decades in Africa. There was a cultural understanding that if you didn’t look after your belongings in a way that stopped them being nicked, it was your fault. Not the fault of the thief. ‘Thou shalt not tempt’ was a card left in hotel rooms indemnifying hotel staff should a guests belongings go missing. It was madness. There was a saying that went, ‘Even if you bolt it down, the bolts will get nicked.’

I had an architect friend who designed mosques in Africa before moving to live in a shanty village in Algeria. He was building a sustainable house there using local materials but modern construction methods. He'd married a local woman and the house was to be a gift to his new family. He kept a journal with the intention of writing a book and it was a real insight into North African life. One day he had tools stolen from his home - a digital tape measure. In a small village it was very easy to find the thief who was proudly measuring everything he could find with it. When confronted, the thief was outraged at being accused as if my friend had valued it, he would have locked it up. "But it was in my house" my friend exclaimed. "Yes, but the door wasn't locked" said the thief. He got the tape measure back but no action was taken against the thief, most locals just tutting at the stupid Englishman.

 

[Beebo]

In my eyes, it's an inconsequential nothingness. A chocolate got stolen from a box in a supermarket, my life goes on.

But once one chocolate is stolen the entire box is worthless, so the whole box is wasted.
It may be an inconsequential nothingness, but if someone is prepared to take a chocolate it is indicative of a lack of shared social values.

 

[Mrs M]

It’s thieving
Same as when we sent our nephew a gift card for his 8th birthday.
Silly us, it was obviously a birthday card. In it’s bright envelope and could feel the gift card inside.
Wee chap never got his prezzie.

 

[classic33]

It’s thieving
Same as when we sent our nephew a gift card for his 8th birthday.
Silly us, it was obviously a birthday card. In it’s bright envelope and could feel the gift card inside.
Wee chap never got his prezzie.

If I'm sending a card through the post, it goes into a plain brown envelope, with an extra piece of card, the size of the brown envelope if there's anything in the card.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I must agree, light fignered Herberts.

BTW, what sort of relief does a Relief Manager give?

A relief manager gets the relief of not having to work there all the time, obvs.

 

[I like Skol]

I've seen people give the cashiers empty packets to scan.

I have been known to do that. What is the problem if i intend to pay and do so? You could say i am just carrying it to the till in a different manner.
Many times i have had to go back into a shop to pay for stuff that somehow got overlooked in the bottom of the trolley and only got noticed when loading the shopping into the car boot. Once even had to return a ~£2k diamond ring a couple of days after we had been into a jewellers looking at engagement rings. The jeweller's wife was a dizzy thing and had somehow managed to overturn one of the display trays while showing us a variety of rings. She was sure she had picked them all up but when rummaging at the bottom of her handbag a few days later my now wife was shocked to find a ring. She phoned me from work to ask what should we do? All her colleagues were telling her to keep it. I told her that wasn't going to happen and it would be returned to the shop asap. The jewellers hadn't noticed it gone but when we collected our rings they also presented us with a box of chocolates and a nice bouquet of flowers.

Theft is theft, no excuses! I teaching my kids to follow my standards by example as well as instruction.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I have been known to do that. What is the problem if i intend to pay and do so?

What if you can't pay?

 

[Milzy]

I’ve known a few post men to be sacked for stealing.
On the chocolates thing it will become more common as our economy crumbles thanks to the tories. People in poverty with lack of police will do & take what they like.

 

[Crackle]

What if you can't pay?

Yeah, what if he has a heart attack before he gets to the checkout....

 

[slowmotion]

What if you can't pay?

The same as me and that Rolls Royce I rather fancy...….you go without.