Knowingly stealing - food shop delivery

No, I'm not 6, but did you mean to be so rude?

I'm just repeating what they said at the time/ how they phrased it.
That isn't what I thought. It was obvious they didn't quite know what to do.

I'd have been happy to bring the item back the next time I was in town (would've been the following week) and have them scan it and charge me, but they said to keep it and think of it as a reward for doing the right thing

I wouldn't think about doing this myself.....however it probably would be wasted rather than put back on the shelves. I'm surprised you can cancel the same day tbh.

I ordered a lakeland hamper that I was giving as a gift but when it arrived the packaging was damaged. I called to let them know and asked if I could swap for a properly packaged one and they said keep it, and sent another. I think I donated it to a women's refuge.

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Sure. Stealing is wrong. I don’t believe for one second that 86% of you wouldn’t keep that food though.

Probably not just because I do believe in karma and I wouldn't want that on my shoulders.

No, I don't regard myself as the arbiter of moral correctness, and 86% of MNers who've voted also think stealing is wrong.

So you actually cancelled it to deliberately steal? You got the idea of stealing from your friend!

And then people wonder why food costs suddenly shoot through the roof! Behaviour like this doesn't help the economy at all. Shame on you @Ponter it's disgusting that you're almost bragging about it. I personally think you're a POS...

Luck?

It's not just putting up prices for other customers, it may result in lowering what they agree to pay to suppliers.

I think that if a van turned up with a cancelled order, the driver for the supermarket I use would probably tell me to keep it anyway. Any fresh or frozen food would be thrown away anyway as it’s only allowed to be kept in the van for a limited amount of time. I’ve often had items I refuse to accept ( poor condition, short date etc) given to me after the refund was registered.

However, I don’t think I could cancel on the day of delivery even by a phone call. I get emailed my receipt first thing in the morning and I think that it is then, delivery is on the van.

You're not going to ring up and pay?! 🤢

I agree, they take the payment from the card when they pick the items. No way to not pay

I decided to cancel the shop as many of my plans had changed so i didn’t need some of the stuff that had been ordered.

It was a risk but I still needed majority of the groceries ordered so thought I’d chance it.

No, if you still needed the majority of the groceries you wouldn't have cancelled.

You had a plan from the beginning because your friend, who's also a thief, got away with it.

I don’t believe in karma. Plenty of examples of twats never getting their comeuppance.

Karma is from ancient Indian belief systems that also incorporated reincarnation, rebirth. So how you behaved in this lifetime would influence the lot you got in the next life.

Which is kind of shit tbh. Have arthritic knees? Have a neighbour who blocks your drive? Share an office with someone who wangs on about Love Island? You deserve it because of your misdeeds in a past life!

@TheSerenityPrayer it's not "a reward for your honesty," are you six? It was just more awkward for them to charge you.

I'd have told the driver that I'd cancelled it and see what he said. My concern with refusing the delivery would be that I might still get charged. They will probably catch up with you in the end though.

It isn’t being supercilious, it’s being confident that taking food without paying for it is stealing.

If the tone of the OP had been different, the majority might have understood. As it is, she knew and said clearly that she knew it was stealing. It was deliberate and it’s also possible that the delivery person got into trouble too.

Could the people who think that it's OK to steal from large supermarkets tell us the annual turnover above which it's not a problem?

Also, is it then OK to steal a footballer's wallet? After all, they earn loads, they can easily afford to lose a few hundred quid. But maybe it's only OK if they play in the Premiership. Such a moral maze. 🙄

What you've done is nothing to be proud of. You should be ashamed, and if i knew you, you'd go down in my estimation.

I've shopped instore before (using manned tills) and then on arriving home realised that they hadn't put through all the items (had 2 big ticket items costing £30 each, and they only put 1 through). It was a massive shop costing £250, so I didn't notice the discrepancy until I went through the receipt at home.
I immediately rang the store to explain and to ask if I could either pay over the phone there and then, or pay next time I was in town as I lived 40mins away.
They were so surprised at my honesty, which is pretty sad in itself, that they didn't quite know how to deal with it, and ultimately they told me to keep it without charging me as reward for my honesty.
It would never have occurred to me to keep it and not own up as that would be stealing and I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing I'd done something wrong.
People like you are what's wrong with this world.

I am disabled and had to online shop. Now I can finally get to the shops, I am disgusted. Absolutely disgusted that these bog 'budget' supermarkets hide their just essentials range just to line their pockets.

I had a similar thing happen where, according to the Just Eat app, a restaurant rejected my order. So I ordered something else but then the original order arrived. I told the delivery driver and he told me to keep it because they couldn’t resell the food anyway. I was never charged.

In your situation I’d have done the same - told the delivery driver rather than accepting food I knew I hadn’t paid for.

I think you will find the vast majority would be honest.

If someone turned up with a food order I thought I had cancelled, I would tell them to hold fire while I check whether or not I had paid for it. Then I would either send them away with this pile of stuff I haven't paid for, or I would put my rightfully bought shopping away. Resentfully, I imagine. I wouldn't be cancelling a whole shop just because there were a couple of things I no longer wanted, so it would only have been cancelled due to some sort of emergency that meant I couldn't put it away or couldn't afford it. And no, if I couldn't afford it, I wouldn't hope that I would get away with keeping it if the payment hadn't gone out.

@MumOfOneAllAlone Just think of how many elderly and disabled people are paying higher prices as they can't get to the shop. Disgusting.

As an elderly and disabled person (and who has supermarket deliveries) using me and people like me as a justification for theft is unacceptable. As an elderly and disabled person, I was taught better than to steal as well. I realise that this is an old-fashioned concept these days, but honesty is something to to be desired. If your user name is anything toi go by, I hope that you are teaching your child better than this.

I'm assuming you never do anything 'wrong' then, if you've designated yourself the arbiter of moral correctness. It's tesco, who cares
ETA OP didn't say it was tesco. My assumption, weirdly, from the mention of the app.