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Good morning everyone. I've had a sleepless night and would be grateful for some advice.
ds1 and his gf (both in their late twenties and have bought a house together) came round yesterday. I'm very fond of gf and thought she was a lovely girl although she does have some very different attitudes to me regarding money at times (she's been brought up as a bit of a princess and to value designer goods and the need to impress others above all else). However, she's also kind, caring, funny and very clever (graduate with a very responsible job) and most importantly, makes my ds happy most of the time. In turn, he is usually good at getting her to see sense and provide reality checks.
Yesterday ds was joking with me about money saving as I explained yet again about how to use GR vouchers at M&S (we had meal deals for lunch!) when he suddenly looked serious and said, "Well at least what you are doing is legal, unlike gf."
Gf laughed and said blithely, "Well all the hundreds of pounds we spend at Toscas they can give us the odd lump of cheese." It transpired that they use the hand-held scanners to do their shopping and gf thinks she is justified in dropping a few items (lumps of cheese being her favourite) into the trolley without scanning them. She seems to think this is the same as me using glitches etc and does not consider it is wrong.
I know that we all have our own moral line but in my book (and I'm pretty sure in the eyes of the law) this is stealing. I tried telling her that they do spot checks on people's trolleys when they use hand held scanners but she just laughed and said, "I know, they've done it to us but they only scan a few odd items and if they did find an item I hadn't scanned I'd just tell them I'm really sorry I must have forgotten to scan this." I tried reasoning with her and mentioned they could also look on CCTV or have store detectives so she might well give away the fact that this had been deliberate rather than an accident but she didn't seem to grasp the fact that she could be prosecuted, which in turn would probably lead to her losing the job she has worked so hard for.
DS said he refused to be part of this and wouldn't go anywhere near her when he knew she intended to do this. However, he would still be in the shop with her and they go through the tills together at the end as they usually pay half each. He thinks that as long as he isn't anywhere near her when she adds the unscanned item to her trolley that he is not involved and cannot be prosecuted. However, I'm really worried that ds could be implicated and prosecuted too.
Does anyone know what my son's legal position would be if she did get caught?
Am I overreacting or does anyone else think it's OK to add a few unscanned items to a trolley load? If I'm not overreacting, how do I convince her to stop doing this or my ds to refuse to go into the shop with her?“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.”
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Morning, just caught up on the past weeks shenanigans
:eek:
Happy birthday LFAB
Happy anniversary tinyshoes and mr TS
Heading to the zoo shortly, god help them and us!
60 odd kids on a Monday morning + very little sleep for me over the past week = a very long day. All I need now is for it to rain :rotfl:
Catch you all again on Friday
SPC #329 £471/£500 banked
SPC 2014 £1100:D
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light
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She is being very foolish here - a one off may be ignored by the checkers on scan as you shop BUT I would imagine that a repeat offence would be treated with the law.
What we do is legal and requires work. What she is doing is illegal and requires no effort at all. She is being lazy. Try to convince her to go the legal way. What worries me about all of this is the other things she could be doing......never stop doing your best because someone doesn't give you credit0 -
SpiralingDown wrote: »Morning, just caught up on the past weeks shenanigans:eek:
Happy birthday LFAB
Happy anniversary tinyshoes and mr TS
Heading to the zoo shortly, god help them and us!
60 odd kids on a Monday morning + very little sleep for me over the past week = a very long day. All I need now is for it to rain :rotfl:
Catch you all again on Friday
Shall I do a rain dance?
:D:rotfl: Something unexpected happened which made me smile and still continues to make me smile.
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poppypopster wrote: »Worked
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Fab, well done on the test! X0 -
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Happy birthday LFAB :bdaycake:
Happy Birthday Mummy Bear :bdaycake:
Happy 25th Anniversary Mr and Mrs tinyshoes :beer:
Happy celebrations all!
Good morning & have a great day.“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.” ~ Ferris Bueller0
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