Shoplifting in Asda

tillycat123

I was at the self scan at a big Adsa near Birmingham a few weeks back. As I was queuing I noticed a family scanning one item and putting it in the correct bag and putting the other items not scanned straight in a shopper with wheels on the floor. The man made eye contact with me and realised from my death stare i had clocked what they were doing and started to get in a flap.

How the assistant did not realise what they were doing goodness only knows. Anyway, when a self scan came free for me there were no bags as I walked to get some from a till I asked a member of staff to walk with me and I told them what was happening.

As I left rather speedily I caught sight of the family being led into a room with security.

MillionKisses

Tillycat, That was very brave of you. You must have been scared. Why should honest folk who pay subsides those that don't. You say a family? If they had children with them it doesn't set a very good example.

smashee72

The A.S.C.O.N.E approach has been used in some stores for many years, for very good reason aswell, but others have been slower on the uptake. When I lived in in London, around 1996, my friend and I were going to Tesco for our weekly shop. On the way, we stopped at the corner shop and got our little uns, who were both in buggies, a bag of 5p crisps each. At the check out in Tesco, we paid and were walking out when we were stopped by security. I was in shock and remember thinking, 'I havent taken anything, I dont really believe my friend would shop lift, what the hell is going on?? ' We were made to empty our bags, which we did gladly, then this bumbling idiot came into the interview room and pointed to the babies ' the crisps, you didnt pay for them...' Of course I could point out immediately that Tesco didnt sell 5p crisps, they were brought into the store and we wrote letters of disgust that we had been wrongly embarrassed in public and falsely accused by the incompetent guy who was upstairs studying ( not very closely) the cctv. It was 2 weeks before Xmas and we both recieved an enormous bunch of flowers and £150.00 in compensations. So after the initial shock we kind of had the last laugh!!! At the time my friends hubby was a security guard in Boots, his guidelines stated you had to see the offender pick something up and not lose sight of them at all until they attempted to leave the store, otherwise you could not stop them. For very good reason!!

cheepskate_2

marywooyeah wrote: »

I hate people that train their kids to steal - what kind of life is that child going to have growing up that way? so sad to see

Probably from the perspective of the parents a very good career. This is life to the parents, just as we teach our children our morals, so do they. For these parents btheir culture is so different from "normal" ones. Just go to some inner city black spots and buying nicked off gear is normal

All very sad.

**Juice**

I was in Tesco quite recently waiting at the self service tills, one bloke was taking ages as he had a huge trolley. He finally finished and wheeled off, I got to his till and he hadn't hit checkout or paid, just scanned everything through, put it in his trolley and scarpered. I had to go and get an assistant and say, er that blokes not paid, have a look at the machine. He went chasing off for him and left me with the unusable scanning machine. D'oh!

Needhelpsaving

Publicdomain wrote: »

It may be that he was not bothered, however the implications behind stopping someone and being wrong can bite you on the backside. Most companies use "scone" S.C.O.N.E. Relates to retail Loss prevention and store security. It is the list of things that must be seen before a stop can be done. I am unsure of the full thing but what I remember is....
S - Selection.
C - Concealment
O - Observation (constant, if you loose site of the subject they may dump the item. If you then stop them you are in the wrong)
N - None payment (usually passing last point of payment)
E - Exit (Leaving the store. If they do not leave the store they have not stolen anything)

therefore no attempt would be made to stop them.

Your right on this one - but they added an A not long ago - its now A.S.C.O.N.E - A for approaching the item.

Miroslav

hermum wrote: »

Years ago a young lad collecting the trolleys in a store in our town was attacked & killed when trying to help stop a shoplifter.

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me.

The law is too soft on criminals and doesn't do enough to dissuade these people from stealing or carrying weapons.

I don't know the answer to any of this, but the moment we stop being a soft touch then we can then at least reduce the frequency of it all.

Odette

About a month ago now I popped to the local garage to buy some milk. When I got in there there was a standoff between the couple of guys that work at the garage and a guy with who had obviously stuffed a bottle of wine down his trousers. The garage guys were both not great with English and I was a little P'ed off myself with this guy, he was being rude and disresepectful to the staff and I wanted to buy my milk.

I called him out and told him to stop being such an idiot, give the guys the wine back and leave. After a little tooing and froing he put the bottle on the side but kept being abusing the shop guys. One of them went to grab the bottle so he went for one of the shop guys so i went for him!
He grabbed the bottle of wine and went to hit me with it but he obviously then thought better of smashing a bottle of wine on a 25 YO woman (he msut have been at least 35 - what a hero this man was!) and instead started trashing the shop before running off.

So thats my story about standing up to a theif. I dont know really what came over me but I am glad I did it.

marywooyeah

tillycat123 wrote: »

As I left rather speedily I caught sight of the family being led into a room with security.

good on you! many people would have turned a blind eye :T:T:T

worbikeman

I was in the pub next to Morrisons one lunchtime over a year ago (spit-and-sawdust joint) when a young lad came in and asked if anyone wanted any bottles of spirits. He was a young big lad, maybe in his mid-twenties - not the type you would argue with! Dressed in really baggy tracksuit. A couple of regulars said ok, so he went away and 10mins later came back with 3xlitre bottles of the more expensive types - blue Smirnoff, Black label, etc. He wanted £20 each for them. I said to him "where did you get them?", he just said "Morrisons". I said "how do you get the security tags off?", he showed me a set of clippers in his pocket, then he showed me he had special pockets sewed into his tracksuit bottoms! Then he said "Anybody want any more?" Somebody asked if he could get some cheaper bottles but he said it wasnt worth his while. Anyway, he came back another 10mins later and sold another 3 bottles - £120 for about half an hours 'work'. Not bad!:beer::eek: