The things you see in B&M!

[Mamananny]

Not being rude here BTW I'm constantly in B&M and love it 😂

But you see some right sights.

Yesterday a woman came in with a TV bracket and said her TV doesn't fit. So she wanted to exchange it for the one she had brought to the till.

Supervisor asks for receipt, she doesn't have one, so he refuses to exchange.

She goes ballistic and just grabs the new one and runs out of the shop!

He gives chase and they stand at the entrance whilst she's howling for him to get away from her. He grabs the bracket from her.

She then comes back in to get the old bracket and starts shouting at him again!

Then in the toiletries ailse a bloke takes a spray can of deodorant, uses it on both pits and puts it back!! 🤢

I once saw a man put a 4 pack of smarties down his pants too.

Gosh I've never seen anything like that

I was in a Poundland the other day, a guy walks in with a bag for life, fills it with all the vapes next to the tills, and walks out again calm as you like. No one batted an eyelid, not even the staff.

Not seen that in b&m but Sainsbury's yesterday man goes in grabs a bottle of vodka and runs out, no one reacted not even the security guard, made me wonder what's the point in having one.

A bag for life of vapes is crazy!

The things you see in Waitrose and Harrods are also rather bat shit

I’ve never heard of B and M. I don’t think there can be one near me.

Never been in either in my life so wouldn't know!

I've seen shoplifters in Lidl loads of times, I think it's because I tend to go in the evening. Once as I was walking in there was a guy just inside the door with a trolly full of middle aisle tat. When the doors opened he sprinted out of the entrance. Another time I saw a guy running across the carpark with a trolly full of steak and a guy inside stuffing packets of batteries in his jacket.

I feel no shame in admitting I bought a solar powered mooning Tomte (gnome) with a light coming out of his bum crack last week in B&M.

Mind you, our B&M is in the neighbouring town that has just been voted 5th worst place on Earth according to The World Bucket List https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/26/underwhelming-uk-town-named-one-boring-places-earth-20530489/ so bugger all excitement round these parts in general.

I once spotted a couple of men walking away from a B&M with lots of large bags full of Lego. Thought, oh no I hope they haven’t just bought the one I was after for my DD then noticed the staff running after them. They had cleared the shelves of all the larger packs.

I saw I guy in a small Tesco with a loaf of bread just walk through the self check out area straight in front of the guy manning the tills and walk out without paying, smirking the entire time. No one batted an eyelid?!

Makes those of us who do the right thing and pay feel like right mugs.

The local supermarket in town attracts some real shits - shoplifters galore.
They are so brazen about it too, people stood literally watching them and they don’t care, they just carry on filling the bags. It’s always random stuff too.

The security guards are usually on it, I’ve seen them send people out as soon as they step foot through the doors, but they can’t catch everyone unfortunately.

You can't move in my town for home bargains or b&m
I had to google map once for the address of one and I think we have 5 of each. Also 4 x Aldi

I went in one. I was waiting in the queue holding a stack of large plastic boxes with about 4 people behind me. They clocked a new checkout opening, I was distracted by having to hold the pile of boxes, my arms were quaking. And THEY ALL RAN TO GET TO THE NEW TILL 😯😯😧. So fucking rude. Not a murmur of “you’re next”. Savage degenerates.

@CentrifugalBumblePuppy I've been to that town (once), and they're not wrong about it being boring. Nice stately home though.

This is the problem. As a shop worker, you can do absolutely nothing if someone walks out with a load of stock. If only we could tazer them🤣

I was once approaching an Aldi when I saw a man and woman lying on the ground, with the man throttling and hitting the woman as she called for help. The man looked really scary but I sort of steeled myself and went over, saying something like, 'Hey, what do you think you're doing?' The woman winked and smiled at me, whispering, 'Just go in, love.' Turned out they were trying to distract the security guard while their friend nicked loads of alcohol. I felt so mad that they'd used violence against women as a decoy tactic.

Shoplifters are becoming increasingly violent. Who would risk their life for the sake of a bottle of vodka?

In our local Aldi there's shoplifters legging it and being chased over the car park on a weekly basis.

@fluffycloudalert Don’t get me wrong, I do adore Hatfield (as I went to the school ‘fondly’ known in local circles as ‘The Wh0res On The Hill’), but crumbs, it’s get up and go has got up and gone since the 90s.

May or may not be linked to my school cohort escaping to Uni in 1991… anecdotally of course lol.

The tesco local near my work give out scanned tickets once paid so can get out the barrier. Was in farmfoods once and someone ran in and pinched 2 big legs of lamb. Lad in shop was only on under 21 min wage he said not risking his life to chase as person known druggie and criminal.

I was in the car park outside a branch of Dunelm Mill last year, and a man suddenly hared out through the doors with a duvet cover set in his arms. He was like a gazelle across the car park, up the big ramp thing onto the dual carriageway, across the dual carriageway and into a waiting getaway van in the Burger King car park, which screeched away.

He was lucky not to be run over. All DD said was “He must have REALLY wanted that duvet set”.

Jesus where do you live OP?!

Ive not seen anything like that! I saw an altercation between customer and staff member, customer felt staff member was being rude but I don’t think she was, was more her accent that can come across as rather blunt.

tbf I’ve worked in retail, I wouldn’t be chasing any shoplifters either, I’m not risking my own personal safety so a shop that turns out millions in profit can get their item back.

A woman walked onto Lidl in front of me yesterday with a child about 5 and a toddler in a buggy, She stopped by the Bakery and gave each child a pizza, left the buggy and ran off came back with 2 cartoons of juice and a pack of cheese triangles and 2 bananas and shoved them under the buggy, turned around and went to go back out the door, the older child said something to her and she rushed back to the bakery and grabbed some donuts before disappearing out the door. Obviously had to feed her children.

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