People stealing from Greggs

Yes, so unreasonable to think shoplifting is bad...

No room left in prisons.

I work in a type of shop. If people shop lift from me - they usually put them item back and apologise.

I don't understand why the police don't arrest people for shoplifting anymore?!

Don’t know what has happened to society over the last few years. All of a sudden, no one cares. They steal, they have no respect, they lie and have no morals.
I worry about the future to be perfectly honest. Stealing from Greggs, people steal from everywhere and it doesn’t seem to bother them at all.

Broken Britain.

My town is so rough, we do not have a Pret.

They should definitely up their game.
If they’re going to do it, target Pret. It probably has a street value.

Christ.

Imagine having standards so low you're prepared to commit a crime for a Greggs pasty.

One of my nana’s younger friends shoplifted all the time (clothes mostly) and rarely got caught.

I have not seen videos, but I have seen it myself in person loads of times.
The weirdest one was a guy who came in and just walked out with loads of sausages rolls, then came back in... bought a coffee, and sat down inside to drink it.

Where I live, there's 2 sisters who are addicts and treat Greggs like their own personal larder. They come in, have a browse... take it and go. Daily.

Vinted.

I watched two people in Liverpool St wasabi nick boxes from close to the door the other day. I can't get too worried about it, I figure they need food. Didn't really think about it much until this thread

People act like it’s new for some reason. I worked in Greggs when I was at uni years ago and it happened then. It wasn’t constant but it did happen. Usually baguettes and the donuts in boxes in the middle. We obviously didn’t have security and we were all women so there’s no way it was worth chasing a man down for a baguette.

I’m sure the staff do care but given what they probably get paid, I’m not sure I’d be putting myself in harm’s way to save a sandwich.

And if security and the police do turn up, still nothing will happen to you following x hours of paperwork and a court appearance.

It’s endemic these days. It never used to be. There was a time people would never do it because they knew they wouldn’t get away with it. They would always get caught either by security or the police. Now they know nothing much will happen to them. They know security can’t do anything and the police won’t turn up for shoplifting. It never used to be that way. You’d be detained by security and arrested by the police. Now, nothing. It’s a free for all.

I worked at Greggs 20 years ago and shoplifting was rife then.
We'd put out 15 tuna and cucumber sandwiches (for example) and 5 minutes later they would've mysteriously disappeared and we hadn't sold them.
Prior to working at Greggs I worked somewhere that sold sportswear, we'd have people come in and remove a full rail of sweatshirts, walk out of the store and jump into a waiting car. It was a regular occurrence. Absolutely nothing we could do and the police weren't interested.

Stealing value things is basically permitted now (as long as you don't have a job that you might lose because of a criminal record). So awful people do as they please.

Shop lifting is getting increasingly brazen and out of control.

I work in retail and would love a law to be passed to enable us to have tazer training.

I’m sick of it all to be honest…

They’ve been advised again and again by all kinds of organisations not to place products on open displays, near doors etc but it seems to be their sales model. Not that they should have to of course but the design of the stores really doesn’t help their security. My local one is exactly the same.

I see lots of teens doing this regularly, also in Poundland, they just wave at the security staff

They’re scum. I go to Croydon once a week to Greggs and all the ones there have security guards.