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.

I love b&m and worked in our local one for a bit, never saw anything too crazy, but the walls, signs etc and lots of things on the top shelf are absolutely coated in bird shit, there is what feels like a million birds living in the roof rafters of the store.

Shops seem to bring out the strange in people. My son used to work in a supermarket and he used to tell me some shocking tales.

We used to have a B&M and I for some reason used to see it as B&S. It then changed many years ago to Home Bargains so its now called Bullshit Bargains in our house which seems apt. We love a wee trail round Bullshit Bargains sometimes to see what we didn't know we needed.

my ex worked as security in a high street chemist. He was followed and threatened after work many times by known drug users who had lifted earlier that day. Police did nothing

This is why shoplifting is epidemic.

Surely, as a shop worker, you can still say "Oi! No!" and run after them?

God, that's grim! Did it have an owner with it???

Yep. He just walked off, leaving the poor staff to pick up the turd.

I used to work in b and m, the stories I could tell

We had a bloke who kept stealing Henry hoovers. In the end we filled a hoover box with leaflets, and stood by while he pinched it

We also had a customer walk in with a trolley, place a hot tub into it and walk out without a care in the world

People in dressing gowns is prevelant as

I was in Aldi at the checkout when a cashier started shouting that ‘The man with the cap on and glasses hasn’t paid!’
Cue several staff running towards the exit.
Then a cashier pipes up, ‘If it’s the man in the pink shirt it’s fine, he’s gone to get his bank card from his car, he’s coming back in.’
The man came back in with his card and the staff all stood down.
Honestly in the same branch dh has seen 2 cashiers give chase to a shoplifter, tackle him to the ground and take the stolen goods off him.
You don’t mess about with the staff in my local Aldi.

I love, love B&M! It's literally my corner shop as in the first shop I come to after leaving my house 😁

Horses

I regularly pop I into TK Maxx on an evening after work.
It's not unusual to see the local druggies lifting an armful of men's clothes off the rails. Always men's stuff.
I once saw them run out with the entire fragrance display.
Same people/group.
The staff just stand watching and talking on their headsets.
I'm thinking of swerving the place tbh as it felt really unsafe the last time I was there and this happened.

If you ever watched Shoplifters Caught on Camera you’d see plenty!

Disclaimer, I’m long retired and quite often watch such things in the afternoon while knitting - when I can’t follow anything with a plot or I’ll go wrong and have to swear and undo.

I saw a man in Poundland fill a bag with sweets. I was told later that he'd lifted them.

Not once they've left the premises.You can shout oi as they run out the shop but if they keep running thats that, you cant chase after them, arent allowed to touch them. You check the cctv, call the police but they do very little tbh.

Did he have a big white beard, red suit and put all the carrots in a big sack ? I reckon it was Santa, those reindeers need feeding all year round not just on Christmas Eve 🎅 🦌 🥕

I know it'll be for selling but I'm slightly chuckling at the mental image of a meat addict desperate for his hit of roast leg of lamb!

I don't live in London anymore, but still spend a lot of time there for work.

If I have some free time, I love going to the soft furnishings department in Harrods and eavesdropping on the insanely wealthy international clientele shopping for their Mayfair apartments.

My personal favourite was the transaction that involved a dining table for 36 and a 6' tall giraffe lamp (I wish I knew if they were intended for the same room).

Our local Aldi the alarm goes off if you try to take out the basket trolley!!
I was told a couple of months ago 🙈luckily I was with my DD and she had to go and get a trolley. Because obviously the basket was full and the bags in boot of car.
I have told numerous people since.

I've only been in mine a couple of times for classroom bits and bobs, whilst it certainly wasn't a classy establishment it wasn't anything like yours!

On the flipside a German gentlemen went to the till with a pick and mix with about 6 sweets in.

The lady on the till explained that it's not sold by weight, but by cup size and he had a medium cup and those 6 sweets would be £3.49.

He said that was fines, she insisted he go back to the pick and mix and fill up the tub.

He told her he didn't want to as he would eat them all. She said 'No you won't, you'll save some for tomorrow. You either fill the tub up or I'll refuse to serve you' 😂 😭 😭

He went and filled his tub up 😂

I once saw a woman removing all the jam jar lids, licking the jam and replacing the lid 🤑

It was at least 10 years ago now in Harrods when we saw a gold plated tea trolley - sides were all swirls and curlicues and gilded flowers - priced at IIRc over £7000.
A lot of the stuff was evidently aimed at the Arab market, and was in the style of (as it was commonly called when we lived in Gulf States) ‘Louis Faroukh’.

A B&M has recently opened in my town. I have not been in yet, but am going to make a point of popping in just to check out the shenanigans, lol.

A relative used to work in a large home decor store. A man and young child came to their checkout with a large plastic Wendy house with a hinged roof.

Knowing a lot of shoplifting tricks that are used she lifted up the roof and inside were hundreds of pounds worth of expensive power tools which he claimed he'd forgotten about.

She proceeded to scan them all through. An expensive purchase he hadn't planned on making 🤣