I know this has been in the news but I am a bit shocked witnessing it.
I was in the trolley self check out bit of Tesco. There are 8 trolley check outs and 10 basket check outs man by 2 staff,
It gave me an an error about using my own bag so I was looking around for the member of staff and saw the guy next to me just putting his stuff that was in his trolley in a bag. I nearly said you need to put it on the scale but a member of staff was heading my way so I did not.
Mentioned it to staff member and it seems he only scanned a loaf of bread and put the 3 packs of budweiser beer, meat and crisps straight in a carrier bag. Did not pay for the bag.
Staff said he would contact security but the security guy was tiny and the 2 guys manning the self serve just young kids.
I can quite see have they would not want to risk themselves.
But it was the casual way they were doing it that shocked me.
Is this what we have come to? Such brazen casual theft?