Knowingly stealing - food shop delivery

Well, I mean, it is stealing and it is wrong. But, if you'd told the driver that you'd cancelled the order, I bet he would have said to keep it anyway. What else could they do with it - they wouldn't be allowed to put it back on the shelves due to food safety regulations, I don't think. So I think you would have been able to keep the shopping anyway but with a clear conscience. If you phoned up now and asked to be charged they might charge you but I wouldn't be that confident that they would. So, although I would definitely have told them I'd cancelled the order when they arrived, I also wouldn't waste time feeling like the terrible criminal many here are calling you because you didn't.

No, I wouldn't do that. I'd tell the delivery driver that the order had been cancelled. I suspect that anyone that would accept the order is not going to say so on this thread now though after the pasting the OP has got!

I did once get a whole tray of shopping for free. I did a click and collect order and when I went to get it, all of my cold items had been duplicated. I did point it out to the guy and he just shrugged and said I'd only been charged once so just take it, presumably because it would be a faff to put back or maybe they couldn't do that after it being in the van for a certain amount of time? Anyway, it ended up being a win for me as the tray had a few high value items (Lurpak!) but I did at least try to give it back.

This is miles away from finding an extra item in the delivery and just keeping it, which I believe most people would do. This is a whole other level - basically an entire weekly shop. Very much theft.

I didn't think you could cancel at the last minute without being charged, which supermarket allows this?

And yes, OP, it's stealing and I wouldn't have done it. HTH

She said she chanced it when the opportunity presented itself. I have had similar with cancelling and the groceries turning it up. You can’t plan it because most of the time when you cancel it doesn’t turn up.

Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago - had to cancel over the phone a few hours before my slot in an emergency. I got a cancellation email straight away with details of my refund. About an hour after my 1hr slot had ended (and still no-one at home) I got a phonecall from the driver saying he was knocking at the door! I explained about the cancellation and apologised for wasting his time, but it did cross my mind 5 minutes later that I might have got it for nothing if someone had been in the house ... 😋

No.
it’s stealing

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I wouldn’t, unless I was desperate, which OP isn’t.

I would have refused the delivery or phoned up and paid but that is because I’m an honest person not a thief .

I once had a massive shop delivered as I had forgotten it was coming due to booking it weeks and weeks in advance due to it being lock down and slots were hard to get. I'd gone out three days before and done the same big shop as I was developing a phobia of going out and had stayed in for nine weeks. I accepted the order and paid. Of course.

You are not helping yourself, you have no excuse as you are a knowingly a thief, not an accidental one.

Another time I had an order delivered and rang up as I'd been charged £7 for something I hadn't received. I was refunded. When I fully put the shopping away I found the item so I rang them back. I can't remember if they charged me or not but I told the truth either way and they were grateful.

Many psychological studies show that dishonesty is highly common when the likelihood of detection is low.

For example the restaurant change experiment or the dice rolling experiment

Yes the dinner party food is a million miles away from this situation!

@MrsSunshine2b well maybe we should all try and do it then? Sorry but I don't steal.

Nah, she’s said she chanced it as her friend did it before, then when called out on that she says oh I didn’t MEAN to order 28 days of food, cancel it, then hang about the window like Norman Bates mother stalking the van to see if it still turned up 🤣 I reckon the address will be blacklisted.

Also, this. Thanks for that.

You can dress it up how you want, it's still stealing.

I can't afford wine atm but at least I'm not stealing or asking about stealing on the Internet. There's always a silver lining, I guess.

That's theft and puts prices up for everybody

In your OP this is the second time this happened, so what again about hand over heart?

I would feel so guilty I’d have trouble swallowing it. Don’t choke!

She has said multiple times she did not purposefully place the order and then cancel with the hope of stealing.

I think we have people on this thread telling porkies.

From your responses it looks like you've already made up your mind what you're doing (or rather, not doing) and you're ok with it.

Call them and tell them you called and were told order was cancelled but then it got delivered and now you have some stuff you want and some you don’t and what can be done. They may well say it’s fine and to keep it and then you get it for free but have at least attempted to pay for it. Ultimately in this scenario it would be a bit of a shame to send it back as likelihood is at least some of it would be binned having been out of proper fridge/freezer in the truck for too long. I’ve had similar happen by accident. I cancelled online shop several days in advance, it was sent anyway due to a glitch and husband (who didn’t know I’d cancelled) accepted it. Also had extra items and missing items in past. In all cases I’ve called and all the times we got something we didn’t order/had cancelled they just said it was fine to keep it.

Lmao at all the posters who are horrified but are definitely gonna give it a go. We can all pretend we wouldn't even dream of doing anything like this but it makes people feel good to type out how moral and perfect they are to other people. I don't do online shopping because I fucking hate waiting around for it but if I could have a weeks worth of shopping land at my house for free then I doubt I would be ringing up offering to pay but I would expect it to be taken from my bank eventually, I wouldn't lose any sleep if it never was though. I'm not a common thief or lowlife scum either and just last week I found a purse in a trolley (in a carrier bag) and went out of my way to return it to its owner so that makes me a decent honest person doesn't it? I would still happily take a weeks worth of shopping for free though