Do people have no shame any more?

Well it's clever, I'll give them that. Did you not say anything to them? Or to the staff? I would have. They may not care about stealing from Tesco but what about stitching up the poor customer who pays for premium eggs only to get budget ones?

I bought a packet of Ibuprofen from Asda a few weeks ago, got outside, went to take a couple and somebody had already beat me to it. 😡

So they should be allowed the posh eggs?

Then who gets the cheap eggs in your ideal world? Or are there no cheap eggs because all eggs are created equal?

I saw a couple with 2 older children load a trolley full in Morrisons and walk straight out. They swiped a Christmas tree as they left. No one stopped them and loads of people saw them go. They got in to their 2024 7-seater people carrier and left.

The same week, in the same supermarket, 4 male members of staff chased a homeless man around the store as he tried to steal a 2 pint carton of milk. He dropped it down his joggers and it fell out the bottom as it was so heavy. They kept chasing him and 2 of them piled on him before frog marching him out of the store.

You're privelaged. Rule of law is colonialism and from the patriarchy. Capitalism is bad. ✊

Interesting one, OP.

I would never report someone for stealing basic foods - I work with too many families who have to take it in turns to skip a meal..... You never know if someone is shop lifting out of sheer desperation.

However, in this case the couple could clearly afford eggs, they just preferred the fancy-schmancy ones.

Still doubt I would report it myself - I just wouldn't feel strongly enough about it to risk the possible fall out - but I wouldn't judge someone who did, either.

Presumably if there is a H&S rule like that, there is some reason for it. I would absolutely have reported - thieving scum

That's awful. I hope the magistrate found a way to find him not guilty, or if not then the court staff had a bag of shopping for him to take home with him when he left.

If the couple today had been sneaking a cheap box of eggs, loaf of bread and packet of ham I would have understood. The thing that got to me was the pettiness that they were willing to pay for eggs, but they wanted to end up with better eggs than they were paying for. It felt like one-upmanship rather than a couple on the breadline.

You should have said something to them or to security, OP. You’re part of the problem!

I don't understand the people saying to tell a member of staff. Firstly, they could get violent and/or abusive; secondly, they're surrounded by eggs, which would not be pleasant to be pelted with; and thirdly, if all they can be sure of is that some items from two sections were tampered with by miscreants, their strict H&S rules might stipulate that they have to throw away everything on those two shelves.

I always pick up my intended egg box and open it to check for broken ones - making sure to gently wiggle them all to make sure they're loose, as sometimes they break underneath and you don't find out until you get them home and find they're firmly stuck in the box and make a huge mess (as well as losing some of what you've paid for)... but if I check an egg box and it isn't to my satisfaction, I just put it back and decline to buy it - like any product.

I have told members of staff when seeing this sort of thing before.... only to be rhe recipient of a shrug and a "there's nothing we can do and head office have told us not to challenge people like this and risk us getting hurt".

This lack of shame, and the corresponding knowledge that if we challenge it we risk ourselves, js a huge problem in our society and I worry about it a lot.

I challenged a man for leaving his rubbish on the train the other day. I wasnt rude or aggressive. He got very aggressive eith me and told me it wasnt his. I have no idea if he was telling the truth. I suspect not because if he was, surely a rational response would just be, "its not mine". I am not sure what he expected but I felt like he wanted to get into a physical altercation. I just ignored him. But it sums up the problem.

Easy to live your life by that last sentence. Others care, and will put themselves out there to do so.

How quickly will you drop that idea if the consensus would hold it against you? It's not up for you judge the circumstances ICE would take someone away in the US, would you be there reporting people?

Wow. You clearly missed your manners lessons.

Of course there are grey areas but unless you know the person who is doing the stealing you have no way of knowing why they are doing it. Someone stealing formula for example could be doing it to feed their child or they could be selling it on.

If I see it happen, I’m reporting it. The circumstances aren’t actually for me to determine.

I saw a couple with 2 older children load a trolley full in Morrisons and walk straight out. They swiped a Christmas tree as they left. No one stopped them and loads of people saw them go. They got in to their 2024 7-seater people carrier and left.

The same week, in the same supermarket, 4 male members of staff chased a homeless man around the store as he tried to steal a 2 pint carton of milk. He dropped it down his joggers and it fell out the bottom as it was so heavy. They kept chasing him and 2 of them piled on him before frog marching him out of the store.

Not the point of your OP, but I’m hoping that somebody else had already done the egg swap with these exact same eggs, so that the CFs actually DID go home with the cheaper eggs rather than the (presumably) free range ones, as the “expensive” ones were actually cheap ones that had already been swapped 🤞🤞

I think non-free range eggs and chickens should be illegal. (Also not the point of your OP, sorry !)

CFs haunt the supermarkets where I live. I’ve seen people brazenly walking out with bottles of wine, packs of chicken breasts, packs of cheese etc… without batting an eyelid. Also at our local Lidl there are all the plants and bags of compost etc stacked up outside the store and people literally help themselves 🤦‍♀️