AIBU to “steal” this?

This.

I’m really interested in hearing about the supposed luxury laundry products that cost £10 per week (when that’s a massive discount). I buy brand products and don’t spend anywhere near that amount.

There but for the grace of God, go I...

If your bloke works you can't get milk vouchers.

A tenner a week on laundry, no wonder money is tight.

Speak to your HV about formula vouchers.

Stop buying this stuff.

Did you mean £10 a month...?

Another one struggling with the cost.

The ethics: if I was worried and very poor I'd be tempted.

Is this because you don't get paid for 3rd child?

How much is the baby milk?

It’s not unreasonable, it’s illegal to buy stolen goods. Either buy your brands full price or buy what you can afford.

For all the PP who say OP is justified because baby milk. This woman is not in food poverty. She spends £10 A WEEK on laundry.

What the hell is up with spending £10 on laundry stuff per week? For £13 I get a massive thing of ecover laundry liquid (5L) that lasts me months!!! On Amazon.

You don't need softeners or scent stuff or any of that crap.

No, it is not ok to buy stuff from shoplifters.

You mentioned buying formula. Only today, I read an article about Keir Starmer and how he said he would buy someone baby formula if he saw someone who was going to shoplift baby formula. I thought how utterly ignorant and out of touch he was - the majority of baby formula is shoplifted by professionals who are selling it on. Not by people desperate to feed their baby. Not to be a bitch, but breastfeeding is free. I ebf a borderline preemie who had sod all ability to suck.

Keir I hope you read this.

Honest answer - yeah I would too. Supermarkets take us all for a ride. Half of them inflate the prices above food inflation out of pure greed (I know M&S and Tesco were being investigated for unfairly inflating prices fairly recently). It’s absolutely never okay to steal from local or small businesses, but the large supermarkets will not miss a couple hundred pounds worth of washing powder/cleaning products/toiletries etc every week. Even if multiple people are doing it, it won’t make a dent.

We live in a greedy, capitalist society. As long as you’re a good person and you know yourself that you’re kind and doing the best you can, I honestly wouldn’t worry about it. If you were my friend I’d turn a blind eye.

I have sympathy for money being tight but getting involved with this is a step too far IMO.

Someone who can spend £10 a week on laundry products cannot really be ‘struggling’.

I think the supermarkets should be nationalised

Well of course you are morally wrong, you do know that really don't you. When I go shopping, and all the others on here who do the same, I pay extra to cover the losses the supermarket suffers from these thefts so please stop encouraging this.

Well I wouldn't. Same principle as the Rolex.

People struggling to the extent of buying stolen goods maybe shouldn't have babies they can't afford.

These thieves are stealing from all of us!

I would report you to SS for giving your baby formula you bought from a druggie.

I'm not judging you. I judge a society where formula milk is not free. It ought to be. That said, I think you should probably stop buying from this person as he could be dangerous and also have dodgy mates. Best to not get on that type of person's radar.

As someone who works in retail and is struggling with the workload because the hours are always being cut because we are losing literally thousands every month to shoplifters. It's not the big bosses going short it's us poor sods paying the price. Prices go up to compensate, staff morale goes out the window because it's scary watching for thieves all the time and I don't work in a bad area.
Anyway I think you are as bad as the scummy bastard who nicks stuff.

Poverty isn't 'I don't want to buy supermarket own brands and prefer the nicer brands' though is it.

💯 this. Or further down the chain…you are now part of what is furthering the drug cartels and their violence/terrorism/trafficking in Colombia. You need to give your head a wobble and stop contributing to human suffering and misery.

Not an excuse to steal via a junkie!

Buying stollen goods to upgrade washing detergent is not poverty. That is greed.

@AmiABadPersonn I’m not here to say it’s right or wrong, I’ve been desperately skint at times, I do get it.

but please don’t be vulnerable & don’t think this is a person you can trust. My mum used to buy similar bits when I was in my late teens, she couldn’t resist a bargain ever on a small income as a single parent. & we were burgled one night, only our handbags & money & a little bit of jewellery gone luckily. The police got prints & over a year later called to let us know they had arrested 2 people, it went to court & they had burgled another 105 (seriously) houses & were charged with 12 of those, with the rest ‘taken into account’ whatever that means. It was of course the same chap my mum had been buying from & his girlfriend. We had a dog & he didn’t make a peep because he recognised him, he knew where the neighbours security camera was pointing etc & it was really down to having him in the home to sell cut price crap, even just the hallway shows them enough. I’m not saying we deserved it but my mum is not at all streetwise & didn’t consider she was essentially showing him the inside of her house for future robbing, when selling the face cream & Mach 3 blades weren’t bringing in enough income. Addicts don’t generally need less money for their habit as time goes on. Please be careful, the cost of emergency locksmith call out on a Saturday morning cost more than anything she saved on the reduced goods.

You think? How low can people stoop?!!