Just seen someone get stopped

xycom1

It's not an excuse though - these people earn £100K a week or £600K a year for a reason - whether that be out of luck or skill, and if you're not fortunate enough to be in their position then you don't deserve or have the right to the £100K a week lifestyle.

The reason many people are rich or have a lot of money is because they don't spend any or much of it.

Broken_hearted

xycom1 wrote:

It's not an excuse though - these people earn £100K a week or £600K a year for a reason - whether that be out of luck or skill, and if you're not fortunate enough to be in their position then you don't deserve or have the right to the £100K a week lifestyle.

The reason many people are rich or have a lot of money is because they don't spend any or much of it.

No these people get all the freebies when they don't need it. The rest of us pay to keep their lifestyles. Why should a nurse struggle to pay their rent and a footballer get treat like a god.

compmad1

I have never used a self-scan, but I can't understand how anyone manages to get money off with a blank piece of paper. Surely the machines read the barcodes on the vouchers.

stebiz

compmad1 wrote:

I have never used a self-scan, but I can't understand how anyone manages to get money off with a blank piece of paper. Surely the machines read the barcodes on the vouchers.

They scan the coupon (then keep hold of it) and put a plain piece of paper in the slot. The sensor then only recognises the paper.

steve_cov

lil_me wrote:

Invalid coupons include ones for other stores, classed as obtaining by deception so I am told.

Many Tesco stores in the Midlands trumpet their acceptance of other supermarkets' vouchers. I find their sudden U-turn odd... and I don't even shop there except for laundry and cleaning products which I can't get in M&S!

stebiz

xycom1 wrote:

It's not an excuse though - these people earn £100K a week or £600K a year for a reason - whether that be out of luck or skill, and if you're not fortunate enough to be in their position then you don't deserve or have the right to the £100K a week lifestyle.

The reason many people are rich or have a lot of money is because they don't spend any or much of it.

And then there are bank executives unlawfully charging people for bouncing cheques, footballers getting paid so much that smaller clubs go out of business - no my morals stop with my family. I wouldn't go as far as putting plain paper in the self service tills - but most other things (if not illegal) I'll do so my young family have a good time.........after all myself and wife both work and contribute to the running of our economy.

Stebiz

Dormouse

Raspberry_Swirl wrote:

our local tescos won't take coupons through the self scan tills so we've obviously had someone abusing the system too.

I was reading your post and thinking, "Our Tesco is the same", and then realised we've got the same local Tesco :rotfl:

Not for long though, as we're moving!

WelshHybrid

The oh worked as a [STRIKE]general dogsbody[/STRIKE] supervisor on the tills. Tesco are wanting to increase the number of self-scan tills in their stores so they can reduce the number of staff on the checkouts. In the store she worked, the worst thing you could be asked to do was help on the self-scan tills, they were always fouling up.

flufff

It was my gran that brought me up.I'm now 34.I'm not naive but why go to all the bother of putting pieces of paper through slot if this is what he did.Why not simply shoplift?
I could never shoplift,but using vouchers I dont feel so bad as the store can recoup the money if they sell the product.
I didnt realise people were so greedy.Thought I felt bad enough just trying to raise my kids as a single parent post divorce.Praps i shouldnt feel so guilty then making most of what we have.Thanks to vouchers and promotions ive spotted on here I can stretch food a little further and weve been bowling and swimming that I could not of done
I dont think we can judge this chap who was stopped.We dont know his circumstances,the whole truth or his age or financial status.
Re prison I was stating how luxurios it is compared to what some of us have.This was actually a "gripe" my grandparents had.
I think yes nobody likes throwing good money away......we all like saving but there are those of us who to have increase the little we have by making it go further.

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Originally Posted by flufff
got to say my heart goes out to him......think he would be doing this if he was well off?
I dont think so
Watching a program about prisons on tv other night looks like he might be better fed in there.It was like a hotel with televisions,gym,carpets.
If I was elderley and struggling with no friends or family I would be sorely tempted to shoplift.



I think you are very very niave. People, of all walks of life, try to get away with exactly what they can. I know people who are not living a daily struggle who take newspapers without contributing to the honesty box, download illegal mp3s/movies, steal pens from Argos, take back carelessly used goods to shops, and play the system in any way they can.

Just read around this forum for example of people openly discussing how to beat the system, many of whom are not in debt but like to save any penny they can.

We live in a society where people are fast losing any sense of boundries or notion of right/wrong, where people will get away with exactly what they can and as long as it saves them a little then they really are not interested in the consequences.

And Id hasten to add that I know many people who have been in desperate situations and have never considered playing the system in any way - some of us still thrive on the qualities of honesty and integrity - as unlikely as that sounds!

The idea of my gran shoplifting is totally unimaginable, but I guess she was brought up in a different age to you (and I). Perhaps when youve lived through a world war you know how to make do with what youve got.

F&L

I don't know anything about how to shoplift but I'm sure it's easier to scan a £5 Linda McCartney wine coupon, stick a blank bit of paper in the slot and then repeat the process a few times to get a load of shopping for nothing, than to try putting the goods in your pockets. They guy should just go to Asda and use the coupons from their in-store magazine!