Money Moral Dilemma: Is pick and mix nibbling theft?

shaz22

I would have a chuckle to myself before telling them a cinema manager once told me that they emptied the packets of out-of-date sweets into the pick 'n' mix! Eat and steal at your own risk and don't pay the extortionate prices either. Leave well alone.

piratejimbob

ok, so what about when you buy deodrants and purfumes, they dont always have testers, so do you just try them and put them back if you dont like them?

winnoch

Idiophreak wrote: »

It's unreasonable to expect someone (especially young'ens) to sit for 4 hours without food or drink. It's just not healthy - and that's key.

Huh ?! 4 hours without junk food- unhealthy? Really!:rotfl: I hardly think so. Make sure they've eaten a decent meal before hand and they'll last a good 12 hours or more without ever having their health affected. C'mon humans can survive for well over a week without food as long as they have water.

I dread to think what size you/your kids are or what their general health is like if you believe that it's unhealthy not to eat during a long film :rotfl:

LOUY_2

People eating the chocolates and mints in the Q at the supermarket is stealling, so people eating sweets in the cinema Q is also stealling.

emerald_starcat

Maybe they should be called Pick 'n Nick?!

bigkris_2

I would immediately dial 999 and insist that the person is charged with theft. When (hopefully) the case goes to court I would appear as the main prosecution witness. Hopefully the miscreant would get at least 6 years in prison, and have to sign the Mix Offenders Register for life!

wildthing01

i'm interested to read the posts saying that eating food in supermarket before paying for it is theft. i've always done this - when pregnant and about to keel over thru dehydration or low blood sugar (after a solid couple of hours trudgung round the aisles), or allowing my hungry toddler to start their snack before getting to the till. seeing my intention has NEVER been to permanently deprive the supermarket, as i always intend to pay at the checkout (by giving them the wrapper), to the extent that i always double-check i've got my purse with me before i do it, i always thought this was fine. certainly, no checkout operator has ever said anything to the contrary about it - they've even seen me open stuff and consume it at the actual checkout...

tara747

I would NOT eat pick and mix sweets before paying. That is clearly theft. However, I ALWAYS bring my own sweets/popcorn/bottle of water with me as I object to paying cinema prices. Nobody has ever stopped me or asked to search my bag. I think that I should be able to bring my own snacks.

As for popcorn profits - alexhawk (post #40) is right, they do use the revenue from that to run the cinema, and I accept that they have a right to make a profit on it - *but* the price is FAR too high!!! :eek: I would be a lot more inclined to buy snacks from the kiosk if they were more reasonably priced, and all my friends say the same. But then there are always huge queues at the kiosk at my local cinema so clearly lots of people - usually teenagers - are happy to pay the food prices.

On a side note, I love how cheap the cinemas are here (arthouse cinema - £3 for all shows on Mondays and mainstream cinema - £2.50 for all shows on Tuesdays).

Nomorechocolate

Idiophreak wrote: »

It's unreasonable to expect someone (especially young'ens) to sit for 4 hours without food or drink. It's just not healthy - and that's key.

Not healthy for whom, exactly? I'm not so sure that filling them up with the sugar, colours, and other additives found in these pick-and-mix sweets is the best way to settle kids for ANY length of time. And it's certainly NOT healthy food, although nearby adults may get some health benefit from a short burst of peace and quiet.

In fact, thinking about it, there's probably nothing healthy in any of the foods on offer in cinemas. The hotdogs, for example, if they're the same as many supermarket ones, will be mostly mechanically 'recovered' meat.

Yuk! I feel sick just thinking about them.

gjs1701

neilpost wrote: »

That is a bit Gestapo :eek:, and a tribunal would side with the employee for unfair dismissal.

You are probably right. Our management threatens a lot.