AIBU to “steal” this?

By buying from him you're encouraging and enabling drug usage in your area which could be a threat to you and your children as very often linked to violent crime.

And stealing even from big chains puts the prices up for eveveryone. It's not a victimless crime. Most of the big supermarkets have loads of security now due to this sort of thing so how do you know it's not a local shop? I've seem addicts stealing from mine.

What you're buying sounds really OTT anyway I'd just buy the cheap stuff if I couldn't afford the brands. Sounds like you're excusing yourself for being part of the problem. If you're that desperate go to a food bank.

I think your behaviour is despicable OP. Enabling an addict, buying stolen goods, you shouldn't keep reproducing if you can't afford to feed your children. Contraception is free for god's sake. No one needs bloody scent balls either, I've never bought them in my life and don't know anyone who does either and our washing smells clean!

Here's an interesting article about what John Lewis is doing about shoplifting. "Greed not need" is what is fuelling the rise in theft according to one of their directors.
https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2024/06/john-lewis-waitrose-shoplifting/

That you know of. How do you know what's going behind the scenes of getting all of these items you're buying on the cheap?

Fucking hell, is she having a 4th when she can't afford three?!!

No, not decent people!

It's actually not. You have no idea how your drug dealer mate intimidates staff to steal the goods you buy from him!

My God, you just don’t care do you! You think it’s all ok to do what you’re doing!

Well that is not what you said.

I don't know WTF you got anything from any of my posts suggesting they were charities, because that is patently ridiculous, and I am far from stupid!!

I agree!

You are talking shite. I never said anywhere that supermarkets were acting as charities, because clearly they are not!

It's no more "wrong" than me giving him a fiver for the kids bike he takes off your doorstep tomorrow.

You OK with that?

Yes you are a bad person. You’re a thief and I wonder how you’ll feel if someone steals from you or your children become thief’s! You’re also extremely self entitled. You’re desperately trying to make excuse's for what you’re doing and clearly thought we’d all agree with you! No, most of the people on here are not morally bankrupt. Does your husband know what you’re doing? Stealing to feed your children when you’re really short of money is one thing, but stealing to have luxury laundry goods is quite another. Never mind your friend reporting the man, I hope she reports you! I’d be careful next time you open the door to him and if he does get caught I’d watch your back and that of your children because he’s very likely to want revenge on you.

She just doesn't have the same morals as you

OP has chosen to have 3 children and another on the way. I don’t believe having children gives someone the right to lose touch with their morals.

I don’t even use conditioner just a tiny amount of Aldis own brand Zoflora equivalent.
Plus Aldis powder at half the measure adviced on the box and I wash on cold and everything comes out lovely and clean.
Even the muddy sports kits

Well, she clearly doesn’t need to steal to feed it. She’s just spending what she should be spending on their food on other things like £10 a week on laundry detergent Et cetera I bet there’s other things she spends money on that shouldn’t if she’s hard up, she could afford the formula if she didn’t do that

It was the op that kept going on about having a baby and two other children as an ‘excuse’ for handling stolen goods! She’s no better than the shoplifter and is costing us all money in the long run.

They do miss it and they are having to raise the prices for honest people who don’t steal.
YABVU

If you took a week off murdering, but everyone else was murdering that week, would that make it ok to re-start murdering the next week?

Substitute the word stealing for murder in the example above. There's your answer.

If you can't afford it, don't buy it.
If you really need it, go to Lidl.
If you still can't afford it, go to a food bank.

Of course what you are doing is wrong. And getting a criminal record for handling stolen goods whilst unlikely will cause real problems for you and your child.

My mum's cousin got one in the late 60s for buying a knock off record on a market stall which meant she had to change her plans. Unlikely now, but why take the risk....

You're right that Asda makes massive profits, but it doesn't make stealing right. All the rest of us will have to pay the higher prices the supermarkets charge because of theft.

If you’re that hard up, don’t spend £10 a week on laundry detergent, et cetera. You just need a large box of 100 and something washes and that will do you for a few months and then a bottle of fabric softener every month or so which I think is about 4 or 6 pounds I can’t remember.

I don't think anybody said they could only afford baby number 3 because of their purchasing stolen goods from drug users (again, drug dealers don't need to sell stolen goods since they make plenty of money selling drugs instead).
Are you saying everybody who lives in privately rented accommodation / council housing who has not been fortunate enough to get onto the housing ladder should not be allowed to start families? Even if they have decent morals and don't buy stolen goods from drug users? Kinda sounds like it.

No you shouldn’t be doing that and I hope your friend reports him to the police.
Shops and businesses are loosing their livelihoods because of theft and you are complicit.
Plus spending £10/week on washing has completely blown me away.
If you’re near an Aldi or a Lidl their own brands are excellent and you will spend the tiniest fraction of that

Init, he's an addict and a criminal and you're letting him come to your door. Despicable when you have kids.

Absolutely this. Totally disgusting attitude and no mother should have it.