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

reweird

drc wrote: »

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.

I have never read anything so pathetic.

Herbie_Hancock_I_wish

Yet it is stuff that no one really needs. Cheese is always on offer from Lidls. Might not be Latvian hamster cheese but a decent bit of Cheddar. Since I have been sick and my wife has reduced her hours to help care for me, we still eat really well. Not that we ever bought wild cherries in a jar at M and S for 11 pounds but who needs it.

Ready meals. Not here. Nicely cooked fresh and well balanced food at our place. Sometimes with meat or otherwise veggie. A chicken for us two will do at 2 main meals, sandwich fillings. Break out the red lentils, a bit of veg and the carcass and you can make a half decent soup. In fact, out of choice I will have a thick soup with bread as my main meal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7389351.stm

Our target is about 3% of food wasted. That is still more than I would wish.

Going4TheDream

ruggedtoast wrote: »

You were going to shop a brother for stealing mince?

Stealing is obviously something you are quite comfortable with the concept of, I seem to recall you suggesting we 'steal' the empty rooms of the elderly on another thread.

Perhaps you only find it acceptable as it isn't happening to you eh?

paddyrg

ruggedtoast wrote: »

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.

So just getting caught and conditioning? Nothing to do with a moral sense? :-|

Aberdeenangarse

reweird wrote: »

I have never read anything so pathetic.

I believe you've been caught mincing on a number of occasions

Really2

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.

Is that not called the self service check out?

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sainsburys in macclesfield has security tags on cheese and fresh meat and have done for quite a while

ruggedtoast

paddyrg wrote: »

So just getting caught and conditioning? Nothing to do with a moral sense? :-|

I presume you approve of children being transported in chains to the colonies, on boats full of cholera, for stealing a loaf of bread to fill their bellies?

We are talking about cheese here. Cheese.

If people are so hard up they have got to the point where they are willing to risk a criminal record over a 10 slice pack of Emmental half inched from some vile corporation that is squeezing the very life blood out of the lowest paid and disenfranchised. Then I find my moral compass is somewhat untroubled.

paddyrg

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I presume you approve of children being transported in chains to the colonies, on boats full of cholera, for stealing a loaf of bread to fill their bellies?

We are talking about cheese here. Cheese.

Cheese indeed, but somebody else's cheese. Somebody else paid for that cheese, then can't enjoy it (or the benefit of it) if you steal it.

As for the cholera boats blah blah, what piffle - we have a welfare state in this country, it is the 21st century, not the 19th. It is possible to be poor, but you can still get rent assistance, child benefit, and dole, plus free medical and dental care, etc - not enough for the high life, but enough to keep honest people alive if they live according to their means.

ruggedtoast

paddyrg wrote: »

Cheese indeed, but somebody else's cheese. Somebody else paid for that cheese, then can't enjoy it (or the benefit of it) if you steal it.

As for the cholera boats blah blah, what piffle - we have a welfare state in this country, it is the 21st century, not the 19th. It is possible to be poor, but you can still get rent assistance, child benefit, and dole, plus free medical and dental care, etc - not enough for the high life, but enough to keep honest people alive if they live according to their means.

Paddyrg earlier today:



Oliver was considered ungrateful for wanting more than his gruel in the workhouse.