To Not Report This Shoplifter

[Tak3n]

Was in Sainsbury tonight about 5ish at was at the self service checkout, whilst doing my shopping this young guy roughly 18ish comes next to me he looked homeless in his apperance (if there is an apperance) i.e unwashed and very dirty clothes, anyway I see him put a large bottle of orange squash in his bag but put it through as a different item by manual choosing something cheap on the screen and not scanning it, of course the alarm goes off as the scale says something is wrong, this terribly young girl comes over and the guy gets all aggitated and a little uneasy, so the girl scans her card to allow what he is doing to go through, but I can see in her expression she can see something is not right but she seemingly ignores it. My moral compass is telling me to report it but then I think by the looks of him he clearly does not need anymore trouble in his life and if Sainsburys want to employ tender young girls on min-wage who feel they are not strong enough to confront this issue then why should I do it for them... But now having got home my Moral compass is making me feel bad...

And I expect I have certainly failed the "big society" test :(

OP, I'd have done the same.

Incidentally, I should think they would use over-18s on the self-service because one of the most common jobs they need to do is authorise alcohol purchases, which you need to be over 18 to do. Guessing, but seems logical.

*Add message | Report | Message poster LineRunnerSaturnaliaCometh Wed 09-Nov-11 20:43:11
I think that the actual reason why everything we buy is so expensive price-wise is because the bankers and energy-suppliers fuck with us and our economy on a daily basis, and the reason why our food is cheaper than it probably should be market-wise is that we all exploit the producers of the actual food.

I don't think desperate homeless people are responsible for the downfall of the European economy.*

Agreed!

Chillax emptynest
It was a bottle of juice!

Nah your moral compass.is.fine. makes me sad.to think a young lad.needs.to.steal a bottle of OJ.

runningwild

It wasn't his so it was still theft - even if he managed to get it for a reduced price If this sort of thing is not nipped in the bud, he will continue on to bigger things if he thinks he can get away with it.

I used to be manager of a clohing dept in a supermarket, and once saw a lady steal a pair of school shorts. I looked in her basket and everything was from the basics range , no alcohol etc. So I totally ignored it.
A couple of months later I was shopping in a different supermarket and saw her getting taken out by the police. I felt really bad for her.
In hindsight if I had said something to her along the lines of "I just noticed you put something into your bag and am going to allow you to put it back without any consequences" maybe then she wouldn't have continued the habit and got arrested...........

On the basis that those self service tills are crap I'd have shut up. I scanned my shopping through fine but the final goal was wrong. No discounts or offers .... Just randomly less than it should be. I paid and told the store and they just went "meh happens all the time ignore it".

What if he couldn't read well and just pressed the most likely picture, that would explain him being flustered to? Perhaps he panicked a bit as he didn't know how to find the correct item?

Goal .... Total

I think that the actual reason why everything we buy is so expensive price-wise is because the bankers and energy-suppliers fuck with us and our economy on a daily basis, and the reason why our food is cheaper than it probably should be market-wise is that we all exploit the producers of the actual food.

I don't think desperate homeless people are responsible for the downfall of the European economy.

No of course their not but theft foes add a hell of slot to prices, remember it not just the odd homeless person nicking a bottle of oj.

Under 18's do work on tills, I did. One if the jobs of the self check out person is monitoring what gets nicked. Probably not to directly accuse someone at the till though but to notify security cause they need to be leaving the shop. And yes changing the amount you pay is a crime.

Yes people in shops do stuff like this. They pretend to scan items for their friends, sometimes for money for themselves. It's why the monitors for the security cameras facing the tills are normally hooked up to say on screen what is being scanned and at what price.

I wouldn't have said anything in this occasion, a member of staff was involved and it seems to have been a small item. Hopefully the scare might have put him off.

I have reported a shoplifter, a double act who after paying for their shopping went to the toy asile and piled loads and loads of toys into their trollies and headed out the door

"I don't think desperate homeless people are responsible for the downfall of the European economy"

Agree.

Would you have reported it if it had been a bottle of vodka (or something expensive- he wouldn't have got the tag through the exit)

yanbu
agree woth linerunner

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At our supermarket you can't manually put something through as something else. You either don't scan it at all or you could weigh it as veg - in which case you would still have to pay or you chose not to bag this item.

What supermarket do you go to that allows you to manually select what you want to put it through as?

Doesn't make much sense to me.

Sainsburys? Our Sainsburys doesn't have tills when you can select something cheaper when you put something through.

I also don't see how the item could go through as something else...unless its an item like a red pepper, which in my Tossco's you find the item, say how many you have and then bag it.

Is everyone sure its theft - he bagged some goods in the till, offered a price for them by picking a self pick item, the price was accepted by the store.

You don't have to pay the price on the price labels, that's just an invitiation, he offered something different and it was accepted.

And no YANBU whatever his situation, it was the shops responsibility not yours.

YANBU. I would have done the same and given him a fiver on his way out. If it had been vodka, a DVD or something then it would be different.

Fruit & vegetables have to be put on the snaner and then selected from the menu so he could easily have not scanned the barcode, then chosen an orange or somethign from the A-Z. The beep would have gone off because the weight wasn't right?

In tesco you put bakery stuff in with a button as there's no barcode. Same with fruit and vegetables but you have to weigh those.

I'm going to try haggling with the checkout assistant next time I buy my groceries..

"That's 127.52 please"
"Tell you what love, how about I give you £50?"

constance fucking GREAT idea.

tender young girls

dear lord

i've never even seen a sainsbo's with self service tills

mind you, most of the customers who use our local one look like vagrants aren't dressed up to go shopping

And he should have been SHOT the thieving bastard. No wonder the country's gorn to the dogs.

Nothing wrong with your moral compass.

BTW OP mentioned squash and all the replies corrected it to mention juice. I only noticed as my first thought was that squash for a street sleeper isn't very useful.