Tesco Shoplifting - need help.

hollydays

swingaloo wrote: »

Beats me though how people are well enough to get to the Supermarket and alert enough to get all the items they need but then ,dizzy and disorganised' enough to forget to pay.

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swingaloo

hollydays wrote: »

Yet you say this "
"
When you are stopped on suspicion of shoplifting at Tesco it is not just one person who has watched you and suspected you. There are multiple cameras and operators who liaise with each other the moment you look suspicious and watch you throughout your visit. Many shoplifters pick up an item and then lose their bottle and put the item down somewhere else so thy watch you to ensure the items you have picked up are not put down again before you leave the store."

As though you are speaking about something you are familiar with/ knowledgeable about ..

I worked in Store Security and have a son in the same job so I am speaking from experience


And also how do you know " most shoplifters have more than enough money to pay for the goods" because a very large quantity of shoplifters are hard drug users aren't they?

Not at all, the majority are the 'everyday Joe' who think they have a right to help themselves or think they are above the law. The majority are not hoodies with a drink or drug problem. Far from it.

whiteswan

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

I must say your post here is simply stupid.


A: He can make a citizens arrest as can anyone which will be what happened but the OP glossed over this point.


B: Stealing is a crime and there is no justification for it whatsoever and your comment above is about as daft as they come.


In summery here I believe you would be better off posting on a forum dedicated to people of an average age of 5 as they may listen to you more than people here would.

I haven't glossed over anything - it happened exactly as I have wrote it - at no point did anybody say "you are under arrest for x.y or z" - when I walked back in to the store I thought i was being led to a checkout to pay........I have not glossed over anything at all.

Dave

whiteswan

hollydays wrote: »

Swingaloo
Why have you avoided answering the question
" Why was I not asked for an explanation of my actions "

And replied
" You would not have been asked for an explanation on the shop floor. "

It's very weird you have avoided answering that?

Because it's company policy to call a manager to the office isn't it?

Can I just say that no "charge" was put to myself by anybody - and no explanation was asked for on the shopfloor or off it.

Dave

whiteswan

With regards to the comment about saing "I own a business" and waving wads of cash about.........that is simply not how it happened.

I only mentioned that I had to open the business with regards to time held there - and I never mentioned the fact that I had any money on myself at all - until asked by the Policeman. He must have thought this information important.

It was this fact - along with the fact that the security person "lied" about me trying to conceal the magazines and also about me "hanging around outside the toilets " that made the Policeman contact his Sergeant - and the advice from his senior officer was "no further action - it sounds like it could have been a genuine mistake" .

Dave

Stevie_Palimo

whiteswan wrote: »

I haven't glossed over anything - it happened exactly as I have wrote it - at no point did anybody say "you are under arrest for x.y or z" - when I walked back in to the store I thought i was being led to a checkout to pay........I have not glossed over anything at all.

Dave

Why not just give it up as you will not convince neither the majority or myself that you have been treated wrong here, You attempted to steal items and there is no excuse at all so stop trying to make out that you were in someway miss-treated when you are the same as any other shoplifter who believes it is fine to take items without paying.

Azari

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

Why not just give it up as you will not convince neither the majority or myself that you have been treated wrong here, You attempted to steal items and there is no excuse at all so stop trying to make out that you were in someway miss-treated when you are the same as any other shoplifter who believes it is fine to take items without paying.

There is absolutely no way you can know this.

Stop libelling the OP.

You are making yourself look extremely obnoxious by assuming that you know something you have no way of knowing - what was in the OP's mind as he left the shop.

POPPYOSCAR

Stevie_Palimo wrote: »

Why not just give it up as you will not convince neither the majority or myself that you have been treated wrong here, You attempted to steal items and there is no excuse at all so stop trying to make out that you were in someway miss-treated when you are the same as any other shoplifter who believes it is fine to take items without paying.

That is very unfair to the OP.


Whilst I agree they should move on now, absentmindedly walking out without paying for something does not make you the same as a shoplifter. And where did they say it was fine to take items without paying?

Stevie_Palimo

https://www.cambs.police.uk/GetCloser/Shoplifting.asp


http://www.inbrief.co.uk/offences/shoplifting.htm


https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/317719/low_value_shop_theft_guidance.pdf


https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/419550/count-theft-april-2015.pdf

JReacher1

whiteswan wrote: »

With regards to the comment about saing "I own a business" and waving wads of cash about.........that is simply not how it happened.

I only mentioned that I had to open the business with regards to time held there - and I never mentioned the fact that I had any money on myself at all - until asked by the Policeman. He must have thought this information important.

It was this fact - along with the fact that the security person "lied" about me trying to conceal the magazines and also about me "hanging around outside the toilets " that made the Policeman contact his Sergeant - and the advice from his senior officer was "no further action - it sounds like it could have been a genuine mistake" .

Dave

The sergeant bit sounds like new information. So the person who decided you didn't commit a crime never saw the CCTV footage?

You may have got very lucky and only got off as the items you were accused of stealing were low value so they couldn't be bothered pursuing!