Do people have no shame any more?

I’m glad I shop with Ocado

Seriously??? How on earth would buying the cheaper eggs they paid for impact their lives? I can't say I have ever noticed a difference in any of the eggs I have ever purchased.

Honestly I can't believe that anyone could defend this sort of thing.

Thankfully I live in a small town (not in the UK) and this sort of thing is unlikely. For a start there are always supermarket staff in the various aisles putting stock on the shelves or packing shopping, but I have never seen anyone stealing - and I am there several days a week. I'm sure it goes on, but not in the blatant way I read about it on here.

The security I've saw in Markies are pro active and don't fuck about.
Will vary from place to place I would imagine.

A rubbish deterrent. But they are not allowed to do anything, and don't get paid enough to risk themselves anyway.

What is the point of the security people nowadays, they don't do anything.

DP is a police officer. One time we went to a Tesco, intending to go up the travelator. As we stepped on to it, he noticed two young men, each carrying a basket full of bottles of spirits. very definitely not heading to the tills. DP also clocked that the emergency exit doors were open.

He immediately started calling over to the security guard, and when he was ignored, ran back down the travelator directly to the security guard. Unfortunately, even though it only took a few seconds, the two youths had already run out of the handily-open emergency exit.

The security guard literally shrugged his shoulders. Not worth the effort of breaking into a run, or even a slightly speedy walk, even though there must have been a couple of hundred pounds' worth of booze in the baskets.

I think if they won't move for goods worth that much, they're probably not going to even listen to someone telling them about egg-substituters.

I agree with most of this and to a certain extent I am now getting more comfortable with supermarket delivery now we are mostly housebound.
Every generation says this but I'm pleased I'm not starting out in life.

omg I might have called out on them.

I personally think that supermarkets will end up using facial recognition at the doors. That way, a thief can get away once, unchallenged, as nobody wants to risk their health or their life in apprehending them; but they can transfer the image from the CCTV that captures them stealing and add it to their 'barred' list - so everybody's face is scanned when approaching the entrance and, if somebody on the barred list is detected, the shutters immediately come down.

They could extend it to anybody they wanted to bar as well, not just thieves - people who return a suspiciously high volume of purchases, those who abuse the staff, those who poo on the floor in the middle of the aisles (adults - and yes, this does happen). As long as they have photo/video proof of the reason in their data banks and there's no suggestion of discriminatory barring based on protected characteristics, who could stop them?

Actually, they're probably more likely to approach it from an 'opt in' angle, whereby all would-be customers have to register to be allowed to come in and agree to have their faces scanned before they're green-lighted to enter - and then lose the privilege if they 'offend' in any way. Kind of like a Clubcard before you can go in to the shop at all, rather than just to get special offers and coupons.

Once one shop did this (amidst initial community backlash, I'm sure), all the thieves would go to other shops that didn't have it; meaning that the ante would be upped and, before long, every shop would either have to have it or get all of the thieves from the whole region coming in every day. It's not how I would like society to be in the least, but I can see it coming regardless.

Why didn't you get store security involved? You saw what they were doing, a few paces over to the security guard would have at least highlighted what they were doing.

doing nothing is not a good option. Coming on here and talking about it is really limp. And it's told a load more people who didn't know about this scam.

we are all paying for these acts of theft in higher prices.

I am on the Pedantic spectrum and would point out that Shoplifting isn’t the correct terminology, it’s Theft from a Shop. In the same way that Joyriding isn’t correct, it’s ‘Vehicle Taking without Consent’. Shoplifting and Joyriding seem to reduce the seriousness of the crime in the eyes of some people.

That said, in this case there are two levels of loser, the poor people who unknowingly buy a package stating ‘posh eggs’ but with inferior eggs inside and, if the original act is noticed and the store rectifies it, then ‘we’ as purchasers are all losers because retailers have to factor this into their prices.

Again, that said, please don’t beat up the shop/supermarket staff. All Police and retail owners will tell their staff not to intervene, due to the increase in perpetrators becoming violent and using weapons. I recently saw a TV programme where a security guard was stabbed by a thief taking £20 worth of goods from a B&M. He nearly died but thankfully saved initially by some switched on Police officers and then medics.

Blame the degradation of society, addictions, and organised crime. And no, I don’t know how this has happened nor how to reverse it.

Plus, if the issue with the eggs is that you end up with different ones from the ones you paid for (and the box said you were getting); surely the spouse-swapping equivalent would be in being led to believe that you were marrying one person and then getting home and finding you'd actually wed somebody else whom you never intended?!

The Order of Service said it was the wedding of you and Tom Hiddlestone; but you go home afterwards and find Piers Morgan scratching his balls and eating Wotsits on your brand new marital sofa

Supermarkets near me now open the boxes to check because of this.

Like Beamish, like the olden days, or as my 20 something DD ask can you remember doing that! Cheeky buggers, I can’t admit that the local shop as a child everything was behind the counter! But it was more like ‘ Open all Hours’ tv show

Thank you I was looking forward to visiting one, next time I was in London. I’m NE England so only read about it online! @BorneBackCeaselesslyIntoThePas

Are you okay? What have relationships got to do with it.

I know of a couple who own multiple properties and have got money coming out of their ears, holidays every month kind of thing, who swap the eggs in the small box for those in the large box and put the small box through at the check out. You're right, OP, absolutely shameless.

except all the amazon fresh shops have closed because the technology isnt working

Perhaps the shops will move to a model where the only items on the shelves are empty display models and you take a ticket that you present at check out. They could even pre-load the checkout areas when you take a ticket

They probably have to err very much on the safe side - even to the point of paranoia. Yes, these people were thieving scum, but I doubt they were damaging or endangering any of the eggs that were still there after they left.

A bit like if somebody changes their mind about buying butter and then just abandons it in the middle of the crisps, shop rules will dictate that it has to be thrown away if found by a member of staff, as it could have been out of the fridge for ages and/or deliberately interfered with... BUT if you as a fellow customer saw them take it and then, one minute later, put it straight down on the other shelf in favour of a multi-pack of Monster Munch, you could safely return it to the right place in the fridge, if you were so-minded.

It's the fact that they are fine with someone else unwittingly paying the higher price for the cheap eggs which is so selfish.
The supermarket isn't actually losing out on anything, it's the person who buys the other box of eggs. I know it's just eggs but that attitude is so selfish and entitled.

People swap spouses and you clutch pearls over eggs. It's cringe.

Okay so you are on the wind up. Got it.

Do you work? Do you get paid?

I am sure you can go completely off grid if the idea of capitalism is so offensive 😂

Oh that's vile🤮