Do people have no shame any more?

I don’t know if it’s the same across the country but our Tesco has wide open doors and self service tills -Aldi has one or two manned tills and a narrow exit where you have to go through the till. Perhaps that is why Aldi is so much cheaper…. much less stolen food and drink

It’s not the supermarket that misses out it’s the other shoppers who have prices higher to cover the cost of stolen food - why do you think the supermarkets do F all

I’ve said about the brazen theft that I witness almost every time I go to the shops on here before. It’s everywhere.
the two men who bust a side door open in Aldi, one carrying a basket of steaks the other a basket of vodka
the tradie scanning his meal deal in a shop. I go behind him and he’s scanned but not paid.
watching a chap walk into a shop and he opens his backpack and fills it with alcohol and walks out
the kids who walk into a cake shop and help themselves to items they can grab and walk out
once you start seeing it you see it all the time.

I have seen this recently on social media and my husband thought I was joking when I opened a box of eggs to check before buying.
My local high street has a LOT of shoplifting at the moment and I have often seen it. I wouldn't question the people but have mentioned to shop staff and they have to let it slide when it is small stuff as they could be hurt by confrontation.

I think shoplifting has effectively been decriminalized.
And our local sainsbury now has so few staff since they put in self service tills that there’s no one to tell . They obviously save money by cutting staff.

I think both of the choices in your post are true, OP.

supermarkets continue to make record profits while we all struggle AND people are getting more outrageous.

the co-op round the corner from me gets robbed EVERY DAY by the same guy. Comes in with a big bag, fills it with booze and walks out.

the staff - both young women - are clearly intimidated and don’t try to stop him. Last time I saw it I tried to grab the bag from him but he just laughed and ran.

This made me piss myself tbh. Do they not sound more bonkers than shameless?

God that so grim.

It may be more prevalent now but it has gone on for ages.

Some years ago I saw an older couple, maybe late 60s, opening packs of strawberries that closed with the little popper closure and taking nice ones out of other packs and adding them to their pack so they were getting more and better. I said "Do you think that's fair? Other people are going to buy those packs". They just ignored me, put the pack in their trolley and walked off
I told an employee and he just said it happened all the time
Standards have fallen in many ways and I agree some people have no shame

I shop in a fairly large Tesco - not a superstore with 2 floors, but not an Express either. Some time ago I witnessed an elderly man and his wife, (I presume), cutting off the stalks of a large amount of bananas so that they would weigh less on the self-weigh machine. They just left the stalks in the base of the trolley. Our store usually has a security guard based by the doors, but I was too flabbergasted to think straight!😳

Agree with this. Report and name time and place to staff to get them to investigate. Absolute CFery.

I suppose I might have taken the swapped eggs up to a member staff but not sure why so many people are having a go at the op. So many shops now just don't do anything...they certainly wont challenge or confront and the op probably shouldn't either. Its really sad but its not safe to do so.

I work in a supermarket and the egg swapping carry on has been going on for years.

You should absolutely have said something to the shop assistant. It’s not fair on the people who end up buying the box they swapped the nicer eggs from.

I was in our local Tesco last week, and a man told the shop assistant he had just seen a man walk out without paying for any of his shopping. He got into a massive white Mercedes that had deliberately parked across two spaces. The shop assistant rushed out and called out to them and they just drove off. It was so brazen.

People have no morals anymore. It’s all me me me.

I agree and cannot believe that some people have no imagination about interacting with strangers, particularly strangers who are not shy of stealing in public.
It is also difficult for the staff, just recently Waitrose sacked one of their staff, who had worked for them for 17 years, for confronting a shoplifter.

https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/waitrose-defends-sacking-worker-who-33720506

Double yolkers are common in hens that are new to laying. So young birds are getting their egg production cycles in order will often lay double yolkers. Then they regulate the cycle and you end up with single yolkers. All my girls are too old now to lay double yolkers, gutted. 😞 🥚

I have only ever seen them in Waitrose. Usually Humble Eggs brand, occasionally Burford, they are big and heavy so you would notice if they were swapped. Never had one without 2 yolks and I get them regularly.

That's been going on for 30 years I've noticed. Boxes of caged being swapped for free range.

Unfortunately even the ones marked ‘free range’ are in fact not and kept in huge sheds. They are not allowed outside at all due to bird flu (in England and Wales) If you check next time in the supermarket, they will have a teeny tiny sign somewhere near the eggs stating that they actually aren’t free range (even though the box says they are) 🙁 although thankfully the mandatory housing will be lifted on 9th April 2026 so you’ll be able to get actual free range eggs a few weeks after that.

You didn't tell a member of staff?!

Wait, you can buy 'double yolk' eggs? So every one in the box has a double yolk? Really? Aren't they vanishingly rare? I haven't seen a double-yolked egg in decades.

A couple with a toddler walked up, opened a bottle of calpol off the shelf in Tesco and syringed it into the child’s mouth. Then they put the Calpol back on the shelf. No shame and not trying to conceal what they were doing. I felt bad for the poor child, what would they do if he needs another dose in the middle of the night 😟

If you leave the answer out of your post when you quote me, then of course you won't get the answer from that.

Goodness. I can see supermarkets having to put clingfilm round the egg boxes soon.

I bought my last packet of 10 eggs and one was missing from the box, I foolishly didn't check just put it in the trolley. Methinks one person might have nicked an egg.