We have just visited Sainsbury's to get our daughter a few snacks,to take on her journey back to Edinburgh,she has a lift with her flat mate and family.so down the chocolate aisle we go,i get myself a 50p bar of choc,but near the cheap chocolate is some boxes costing a whopping £11,one had been opened and rifled through,it is theft,and i would throw the book at the culprit. 34 years i served at Royal Mail,for a short time i was relief manager at two delivery offices,i also worked in the Registered branch,where i handled thousands and thousands of pounds never once did it pass my mind to steal anything,why do people think it's ok to do such a thing.
In my eyes it is stealing.
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Pro Tour Punditry
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Firm but fair approach.
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On another thread I mentioned I bought in computer graphics cards, we once had a delivery of boxes of boxed graphics cards. Somebody along the way had unwrapped all the pallet of boxes, removed all the cards from the boxes in the centre & then wrapped the pallet up again. Luckily we had CCTV for such a situation, so we could go back to the supplier with the footage of it coming off their van, being unwrapped & the empty boxes found.
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Mmmm, that's a regular occurrence in supermarkets @postman
While shopping in Tesco here, one invariably sees half eaten sandwiches, open cans of drink, open boxes of chocolates and the like dotting the shelves at random. I guess the major retailers factor the losses in, but really, this shouldn't be happening.
One particular incident that sticks in my mind was a box of Roses that was in the dry goods yellow sticker bin. It was in there because the box was dented, and every time I went to Tesco, there were ever fewer chocolates in it. By the time it was finally cleared away, the box was empty...
While shopping in Tesco here, one invariably sees half eaten sandwiches, open cans of drink, open boxes of chocolates and the like dotting the shelves at random. I guess the major retailers factor the losses in, but really, this shouldn't be happening.
One particular incident that sticks in my mind was a box of Roses that was in the dry goods yellow sticker bin. It was in there because the box was dented, and every time I went to Tesco, there were ever fewer chocolates in it. By the time it was finally cleared away, the box was empty...
Levo-Lon
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Well you see it all the time now when shopping but when did it become ok to open and eat stuff while shopping then throw the packet down..
Same as some certain shops where everything just gets pulled out of packaging and then chucked back in a heap ..lidl aldi etc
Annoys me too Postman
Same as some certain shops where everything just gets pulled out of packaging and then chucked back in a heap ..lidl aldi etc
Annoys me too Postman
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Nicking food from supermarkets but not taking the nicked stuff out the store is called grazing. Hiding it to nick it is called nesting. So they told me when i worked for a supermarket quite a few years ago.
Agree with you 100% @postman. It sickens me.
Sometimes 'kids' will do such things and I can sort of excuse that** but generally it is pure and simple theft.
A few weeks ago I bought something for cash and as I walked away realised she had given me too much change. I just walked back, told her and gave her back the excess... .. I really hate thieves.
Grhhh you've got me going now
**years ago I had my grandson in his pushchair......paid for goods and walked out only to see him holding a bar of chocolate. "We" went back in and gave it to 'the man' and said sorry.
Sometimes 'kids' will do such things and I can sort of excuse that** but generally it is pure and simple theft.
A few weeks ago I bought something for cash and as I walked away realised she had given me too much change. I just walked back, told her and gave her back the excess... .. I really hate thieves.
Grhhh you've got me going now
**years ago I had my grandson in his pushchair......paid for goods and walked out only to see him holding a bar of chocolate. "We" went back in and gave it to 'the man' and said sorry.
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Nope I'm with @postman here it's stealing, when ours were kids it/they (goods not kids) were put in the trolley/basket & they/it couldn't be had until paid for, I've seen people give the cashiers empty packets to scan.
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We did a car boot sale last month. Two old matchbox cars still in the boxes were stolen from us. But really taking the biscuit was someone who took one of the four towers out of a Rainbow Towers game for 4-6 year olds. We were selling it for two quid for pete's sake!
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I went to get some threaded bar from B&Q a while back. They had plenty according to their stock system. There was none. The assistant told me people just put it up their sleeves or down their trousers and walked out the door every day.
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Drago
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I must agree, light fignered Herberts.
BTW, what sort of relief does a Relief Manager give?
BTW, what sort of relief does a Relief Manager give?
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I went to B&Q with a workmate once after work so he could get some fixings, he wasn't sure which ones he needed between two different types so just stole the both of them 
Accy cyclist
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,i wasn't condoning it
. I was just saying what they described it as.
Spiderweb
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I like to think I’m the same as you @postman , a good, kind, honest man however I once bid on a child’s bike listed on eBay for my daughter, I won it for £1, I can’t tell you how guilty I felt picking it up from a village nearby especially when the man handed the pound coin to his little girl and said ‘that’s the pound for your bike’! I don’t think he was too happy!
