Tesco Shoplifting - need help.

System

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Multi-millionaire or homeless person?

Or ZZ Top fan?

The-Truth

hollydays wrote: »

There's very few people I know who haven't inadvertently done this over time.
It doesn't class them as a thief.

Strange with me it's the opposite way around, there's very few people I know who have done this.

whiteswan

The-Truth wrote: »

Strange with me it's the opposite way around, there's very few people I know who have done this.

You know whats Funny.........I didn't know anybody else who had done this until I started to tell my friends what had happened.........and then (this is a guess) I would say more than 70 percent had some tale to tell of leaving stuff under prams/pushchairs and exiting a store without paying. A few had given their children food from the shelves whilst shopping with every intention of paying for food/drink on exit - but didn't.

A few had set alarms off on way out of shop - but most just didn't realise until they got home.

This DOES NOT make it right in any way shape or form.............but just goes to show that mistakes do happen - I am sure in all these cases there was no "intent" to steal any of the items.

Dave

fierystormcloud

Whiteswan, why don't you write to Tesco Head Office and explain your gaffe and apologise for being a twit?

Say it won't happen again and you are very sorry. To ban you from every one is a bit harsh. Mistakes easily happen and I believe you didn't purposely nick the mags!

FWIW, me and DH went into B & M the other week and I had a small basketful of stuff (about £10 worth - 6 items or so,) and he had two 9-packs of loo rolls. He was behind me, and I went through with the stuff in the basket, and we both walked out and waltzed to the car with 18 'unpaid for' loo rolls. :eek:

We were a mile down the road when he slammed on the brakes and said 'OH MY GOD!' as he realised we had nicked the loo rolls :rotfl:

Quick dash back to the store. We went to the same till and said we just walked out without paying and we are really sorry. She just LOL'd and put them through, and we paid and went back to the car.

But what happened to you whiteswan could just as easily have happened to us.

fierystormcloud

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Op I sympathise as I have walked out of a shop with something in my hand inadvertently and so easily could have been accused of shoplifting.

As soon as I realised I went straight back very red faced, feeling awful and paid for the item.

hollydays wrote: »

Poppyoscar, what if a security guard had arrested you at the point you left the shop , then claimed you'd concealed it. Fair?
There's very few people I know who haven't inadvertently done this over time. It doesn't class them as a thief.

I agree with these 2. ^^^

It is easily done, and I am sure virtually everyone has done it at some time. Even those who [STRIKE]deny it[/STRIKE] can't remember doing it.

(And no, you're not a thief if it wasn't deliberate.)

whiteswan

fierystormcloud wrote: »

Whiteswan, why don't you write to Tesco Head Office and explain your gaffe and apologise for being a twit?

Say it won't happen again and you are very sorry. To ban you from every one is a bit harsh. Mistakes easily happen and I believe you didn't purposely nick the mags!

FWIW, me and DH went into B & M the other week and I had a small basketful of stuff (about £10 worth - 6 items or so,) and he had two 9-packs of loo rolls. He was behind me, and I went through with the stuff in the basket, and we both walked out and waltzed to the car with 18 'unpaid for' loo rolls. :eek:

We were a mile down the road when he slammed on the brakes and said 'OH MY GOD!' as he realised we had nicked the loo rolls :rotfl:

Quick dash back to the store. We went to the same till and said we just walked out without paying and we are really sorry. She just LOL'd and put them through, and we paid and went back to the car.

But what happened to you whiteswan could just as easily have happened to us.

It seems to have happened to more people than I thought !!

I am in the process of composing a letter/email - obviously apologising - but also asking whether staff followed the correct "procedure" - I would hate for anybody to be in the same position and be "forced" into accepting the fixed penalty etc when you know it was NOT intentional.

With words like "arrested" etc being thrown about it could be very scary.

I am not bothered about the ban to be honest - I personally will not give them another pennt of my money.

Just remembered I do have a "click and collect" that I paid for that I now cannot collect !!

Dave

fierystormcloud

All the best Dave.

Azari

whiteswan wrote: »

Just remembered I do have a "click and collect" that I paid for that I now cannot collect !!

Get someone else to collect it.

Azari

The-Truth wrote: »

Strange with me it's the opposite way around, there's very few people I know who have done this.

You must be a very, very, strange person.

Who on earth would have asked all the people they know if they have inadvertently left a shop without paying for something?

I think sometimes people on internet forums just make up facts out of thin air.

And they are so used to this dishonesty that they don't even attempt to think whether the made up 'fact' makes any sense at all.

And some of them have names that are inappropriate, to say the least.

Stevie_Palimo