Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

I don’t blame the staff, of course they don’t want to be injured in the course of doing their not incredibly well paid jobs.

Police need to get their house in order and their priorities right: not pursuing Twitter posters for wrongthink or manhandling terrified autistic girls, but actually going after and dealing with genuine criminals. That takes a bit more effort and guts though, and support from the government too.

Where are people’s morals in all this (the perpetrators I mean)? The moral compass of society has been knocked away hasn’t it, we used to know what was right and wrong and we acted accordingly - doesn’t have to be about religion either but our own sense of morality.
The fact that some people are excusing it is interesting too.

And I love your username OP, one of my favourite historical figures (and book!).

And that was in 1993….so things haven’t changed that much…

We already do ignore violence especially if its towards women and children

Many years ago I worked in Safeway and almost exactly the same thing happened…local bad boy walzed in picked up a couple of cases of beer off the shelf and wakes right out giving me a wink on his way out the door..right past the duty manager. I asked the duty manager if I should call the police…he looked embarrassed but said better not to. I was baffled at the time why he was allowed to do this meanwhile the poor single mum who had snuck in some toothpaste down the back of the buggy was stopped and searched on the way out and the police called on her.
The shop workers are scared and typically live in communities right beside these horrors..there is no way you want to attract trouble to yourself on a minimum wage.
that local bad boy is currently festering in prison having been found guilty of multiple murders and physical violence.
I despair, but I understand. Without a guaranteed protection of the police, why would you invite possible personal retribution on yourself?

So men can do it but if your a hungry woman apparently hunger is no excuse for theft (yes it is awhile ago but its the one I know about personally so I googled it)

https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/13587194.hungry-kidderminster-woman-stole-mars-bars-after-benefit-sanctions-left-her-with-no-money-for-food/

It’s a sad reflection on the society we are becoming, or have become, that we accept stealing as inevitable. What’s next? Will it soon be acceptable to ignore violence?

Well, eventually you get the breakdown of society as the social norms and values which held society together collapse and the people who are currently doing "the right thing" stop doing the right thing because they see everyone else getting away with doing the wrong thing and getting rewarded for it. I think we are getting very close to that point. Just things like how much rubbish and littering is everywhere and how people seem to care less and less about their immediate environment is a sign of this imo.

Why TF would you challenge the staff about it?

Why did you not go and challenge the 3 men who were actually committing the crime?

Why is this guy on minimum wage going to go and get the shit kicked out of him by 3 men, just for them to come back tomorrow and do the same thing.

I saw an incident in Aldi and had to give a police statement.

A man went in and stole alcohol.
The security man asked politely to search his bags and then man refused, it escalated and the man punched the security guard in the face and ran. The security guy ran after him and tackled him to the ground and took back the alcohol.

The man who stole and punched the security guy got a slap on the wrist.
The security guy got fine for assault because he tackled him and got sacked from his job.

It’s sometimes not worth it to confront them.

I do think the police should be doing more though and these people need consequences for their actions, as it’s not fair on those of us who struggle to pay our bills and still pay for things.

We have a serious alcohol and drug problem in this country and this is a common issue in many shops.

Do you read NYT?

How low is society going?

They shouldn't have been on the bus acting like they were either.
Should have not been.let on, or thrown off.

Well, the Mob means something different in America doesn’t it?

Happens where I live in the SE

Also can't help thinking, if instead of 3 aggressive men stealing booze, it was 3 elderly women stealing food, I bet someone would suddenly be able to confront them, when there's no risk of being knifed.

It’s apparently more “normal” than you think:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66323140

There were about 1,000 cases of crime, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour in its shops every day in the six months to June

and that’s just the co-op

I was in my local Tesco Express to collect a parcel yesterday, and got some bits of shopping at the same time. As I walked out the security alarm blared and none of the staff blinked an eye. When I went back in it turned out the wine I’d bought had a tag on it that the till person hadn’t deactivated - he said it happens all the time and they are just so used to it they don’t even register the alarm.

..Yes, it's amazing how the Police always manage to find the resources when they want to...anything involving a showbiz personality usually gets them turning out in force (pun intentional..).

Love this! 😂

Forest Hill? They even keep cans of deodorant and tubes of sun cream behind the till now as the druggies would just walk in and brazenly steal them to sell on. I wouldn’t challenge them either. My life is worth more than £20 worth of toiletries.

Was a out to say the same thing. God, what a state society is in. Glad I'm old sometimes.

It was covered on newsnight this week. Security cannot do anything as they have little power. Every one has a mobile phone and can record it which isn’t good for the shop.
police are under funded so it’s not a priority. Even though it’s part of a wider picture

It’s interesting how blaming institutions is SO much easier than parenting your children.

@KatherineSwynford1403 I have no idea, I thought it was really odd. Probably a health and safety issue 🙄