Cheese theft rampant as middle classes turn to shoplifting to supply cheese

ruggedtoast

and other middle class staples like those nice biscuit selections and those bottles of oil with all the chillis already inside them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053038/Luxury-cheeses-cooked-meats-shop-lifting-league-middle-classes-pilfer.html

‘More people are stealing and they are stealing more.
‘The problems with the economy, society, politicians and the banking industry have led many people to say “it’s alright to steal. I’ve got to look after myself because everyone is looking after themselves”.’


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Times are getting tougher. This will be our first Christmas being 'poor'. I would never steal from a shop as the risks to my job for getting any kind of record are not worth it. And it would go against so much of my years of conditioning. Most of that conditioning would be rewritten in a heart beat if I thought my kid was going without though.

But do I feel as much moral condemnation as I used to at the thought of someone lifting a packet of meat and some cheese from some mega corporation to put on the table for their family.

Not really.

Pimperne1

This is how we used to shop for cheese in the old days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0

Really2

I presume they are catching them all though as they know they are all middle class thieves.;)

I believe cheese has always been an item that has been stolen due to it being fairly high price to size and easy to resell on.

I think the idea higher value items being stolen indicate it is the middle classes are steeling is typical daily mail.

On the same reasoning every sports car stolen is stolen by an upperclass person or racing car driver?

Getting caught stealing a block of cheese or a bag of crisps is the same in the eyes of the law, so which one is the most likely to go?

drc

A few weeks ago I was in my local Sainsburys (in a middle class London suburb) and I saw a man very blatantly put a packet of mince in his jacket (it was very obvious it was there). I found one of the Sainsburys workers and told him what I had seen and he looked around but couldn't find the shoplifter. Anyway, he said that it was common place and that the security guy (the person who sits looking at the CCTV) was on his break so there wasn't much security in the store at that time. Made me wonder if those security gates really do work or if they are just a deterrent.

ruggedtoast

You were going to shop a brother for stealing mince?

beaujolais-nouveau

A few weeks ago in one of the aisles at my local Sainsburys (Greenwich Peninsula), I surprised one of my middle-class neighbours transferring ready-meals from his basket to his carrier bag. I have known him - just well enough to say hello in the street - for years but will never respect him in the same way again.

vivatifosi

beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »

A few weeks ago in one of the aisles at my local Sainsburys (Greenwich Peninsula), I surprised one of my middle-class neighbours transferring ready-meals from his basket to his carrier bag. I have known him - just well enough to say hello in the street - for years but will never respect him in the same way again.

For stealing, or living off ready meals?

beaujolais-nouveau

vivatifosi wrote: »

For stealing, or living off ready meals?

You are a wag ... ;-)

lostinrates

Parmesan was a big target in Italy while I was there I read newspaper stories about it. Interestingly my area has been suffering a spate of milk thefts/attempted thefts.....so presumably middleclass would be cheesemakers on the prowl round dairy farms here...

Jimmy_31

lostinrates wrote: »

Parmesan was a big target in Italy while I was there I read newspaper stories about it. Interestingly my area has been suffering a spate of milk thefts/attempted thefts.....so presumably middleclass would be cheesemakers on the prowl round dairy farms here...

Its usually bacon and razor blades around here that gets pocketed.

Nothing worse than getting your name in the local papers named and shamed section for nicking a pack of back bacon:rotfl:

Joe_Bloggs

I think it is a cruel trick to put razor blades in the bacon.

If the once middle class are resorting to this behaviour then it is a symptom of a society cracking under financial stress.

Those who are moral, yet hard pressed, should consider haggling at the self checkout till.

J_B.