Accused of shoplifting in one of supermarkets when actually paid for everything.

Saeed

yeah, better to do it in the open. If you went to the office with the security guard how do you know they would not plant something on you? After all it would be 3 people against one (you). Secondly maybe you should have refused to co-operate and asked them to call the police. If this happens regularly, the police would give them a bollocking.

arcon5

We was in ASDA today actually and it went off, we glanced over as did a couple of other people, but over all not many people batted an eye lid. Including the staff - who glanced over at 2 woman stood by the detector waiting for somebody before continuing with their conversation.

Personally I think most people just think the staff have left the security tag on something accidentally, rather than somebody shop lifting.

Security in supermarkets is poor imo.

baldmosher

DreamsComeTrue wrote: »

I may have been seen by people who know me.

People, I assume, who would never, ever shop at that store again if you explain to them what a terrible treatment you had at the store. It doesn't just have to be embarrassing for you; it could be very embarrassing for the store. And it could happen to your friends next.

On a lighter note, Costco check every single item on every single receipt so that they don't seem untoward by challenging suspected thieves. They simply assume everyone is a thief, and it's safer that way. But they don't search anyone's person, only their trolleys; I suppose it's hard to shove a 10KG bag of sugar up your jacket.

In my experience, thieves who get caught are usually idiots or drug addicts who don't know how to steal safely, and the ones who don't get caught are invariably thrill-seeking pensioners who nobody would ever suspect of doing such a thing.

Heck, it's not even a serious charge, Richard Madely was acquitted of shoplifting simply because he argued that he didn't mean to steal anything. (He probably honestly didn't mean to, but still, very cheeky.)

I got caught shoplifting from HMV once when I was a student. I was cheeky, I was stupid, I even knew I'd been rumbled, and I could've got away with it, but I panicked twice and they got me the second time. They said I could either be arrested for shoplifting, or banned from HMV for life. Wanting a clean life, I chose the ban, and just stopped stealing from them. Heh. I don't have the balls to shoplift. I leave that to the grannies.

s_b

Forwandert wrote: »

In that case security will have seen the other person put the item in your bag and will be able to tell you exactly what it was and who did it. If someone attempted to stop me I would continue to walk out. If they wanted to discuss it further it would be whilst I continued to my car. If you know you haven't stolen anything there's nothing worse than security guards thinking they have a right to stop you and search peoples belongings when they have no rights at all to do this.

update for you
i was in farmfoods last night and there was a child of about 2 sat in the push trolley (far too big and he shouldnt have been in it because who knows what he had on his shoes but thats a story for another day)
anyway
his family had had all their things rung through the till and they had placed all their shopping back in the trolley and were fiddling about looking for change like some people do even though they knew thay had spent approx £24 but they still have to find that 20 pence rather than just give notes of the realm, well as they were messing doing this the boy picked up our bag of frozen haddock and put it in his trolley

now you tell me the scenario if this product had had a tag on it (fish is dear remember so supermarkets do indeed tag articles like this) and they had gone to their car?
i think they would have been done up like a kipper and not had a boat to sail on

but heck what do i know

ps they were horrible people so i would have said fish not mine love:D

Forwandert

s_b wrote: »

update for you
i was in farmfoods last night and there was a child of about 2 sat in the push trolley (far too big and he shouldnt have been in it because who knows what he had on his shoes but thats a story for another day)
anyway
his family had had all their things rung through the till and they had placed all their shopping back in the trolley and were fiddling about looking for change like some people do even though they knew thay had spent approx £24 but they still have to find that 20 pence rather than just give notes of the realm, well as they were messing doing this the boy picked up our bag of frozen haddock and put it in his trolley.

now you tell me the scenario if this product had had a tag on it (fish is dear remember so supermarkets do indeed tag articles like this) and they had gone to their car?
i think they would have been done up like a kipper and not had a boat to sail on

but heck what do i know

ps they were horrible people so i would have said fish not mine love:D

I probably would have let them know what the child did not just stood there and watched.

s_b

Forwandert wrote: »

I probably would have let them know what the child did not just stood there and watched.

well it started bad when they hadnt put down the customer differentiator behind their last item
on this occasion i didnt move my food right up to cause all kinds of issues because it had been a long day:D

DreamsComeTrue_2

unholyangel wrote: »

Maybe its just me but.....if i were stopped by a security guard....I'd actually prefer for it to be dealt with in the open with plenty of witnesses. That way everyone sees you walking out and know its been a misunderstanding.

If you're really worried about what other people think......imagine you see someone being stopped.....do you automatically think they're guilty or think its probably been a misunderstanding? Personally....unless they're legging it out the door, I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and think its probably been a misunderstanding.

Thanks unholyangel, this is actually one of the best comments. It helped me to look at this situation in more neutral way.

Derivative

I don't see why anyone cares what a bunch of randoms in the street think anyway.

Are you planning on running for MP or something?

Surely the issue is with the intrusion of privacy, not with a "public show" or whatever. Security guards search people all the time, that's their job, it's not a show unless you make it one.

Forwandert

Its not a security guards job to search anyone! They have no more right then any other member of the public to search people.

unholyangel

DreamsComeTrue wrote: »

Thanks unholyangel, this is actually one of the best comments. It helped me to look at this situation in more neutral way.

Glad I could help, even if it was just a little