People stealing from Greggs

Yeh I’m not sure why you’d have to call someone back. I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to potentially be in line for retaliation.

I am currently working in retail and it is bad :/ I'd hate to know the full figure of what we lose in a day and police aren't keen to do anything unfortunately.

It is driving up prices though along with other factors.

DH and I were in M and S and witnessed a woman grab a whole rail full of jackets and run out of the shop with them into a waiting car.
We were stunned at the audacity.
Reported it to staff who said it happens all the time.

It happens frequently at my local Greggs. People come in, take their time choosing something, then simply walk out without paying. It’s generally teens going to school and adults heading to work. Some of the staff will approach frequent offenders and force them to leave, others just leave them to it.

Personally, I spent enough time working in retail to know that I would never intervene, it’s just not worth the risk.

I don't go in Greggs and hadn't heard anything about this but it really doesn't surprise me.

I was watching the news item yesterday about the literally massive problem.of people stealing chocolate and confectionery. One of the shopkeepers said that when she tried to stop someone exiting her store with actual boxes of chocolate bars the shoplifter actually was surprised and asked her what the problem was. He really didn't think he was doing anything wrong.
And I think that's the problem: people see no moral bar to stealing from retailers of any sort. They think anything is fair game and it has no consequences

Seen this in my local Greggs, a guy casually putting loads of baguettes/salads etc into his bag. Staff didn't notice (I didn't want to cause a fuss and have any confrontation). 5 mins later i'm still in the queue and he comes back and starts loading the multipacks of donuts/shortbread etc into his bag!!

I witnessed a guy in a suit of all things doing this yesterday , another customer started screaming at him to come back, the perpetrator just walked away casually. The staff didnt seem to care! They should just put everything behind the counter