AIBU to wonder............

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Why Tesco security tags there pregnancy tests?

This just seems odd to me!

High value small items, very nickable

They cost a lot.

Because people steal them? Small enough to fit under coat etc, and maybe too embarrassed to be seen buying one?

Iceland have cheese and meat in security boxes

Same with face cream. Expensive and small. They are in locked plastic boxes in the tesco near me!

To stop people nicking them

Why does it seem odd?

Yes, YABU.

YABU if you can't work out that they're there because they get stolen. Or you are being very naive.

Yes!! When I thought I might be pregnant I hoped to sneak in and pay for one at the serve yourself tills without having to see and speak to anyone, but no. They were only about £3 but in a big fuck off box that I had to get some one to open!!

It just caught my attention, and I thought it an odd item to steal. Meat alcohol, clothes, electrical goods things that you might see being sold under the table in the local pub I can understand being tagged. It just never occurred to me, that a pregnancy test would be stolen so often that it required security tagging.

Because people may be very embarrassed about buying one, and just steal it instead.

I for one have always used the self service checkouts with ninja speed whilst buying pregnancy tests in boots.

If i could have had the choice id have stolen a pregnancy test. It would have spared me the embarrassment of going into a busy shop as a teenage school girl on a school trip with jus enough money to buy one.

You can get pregnancy tests in pound shops now

I had the cashier in Sainsbury's asking me if the pregnancy test I was buying was for me. I said it was for my sister, and she said good- I was too young to have a baby, and she was too old

Really Juniper? I wouldn't have been happy about that (and I've been a cashier).

Did you say 'No this is for you. Because when I tell your manager what you just said you'll be fucked'

When I worked in a supermarket they got stolen all the time. They are expensive and many woman aren't aware Dr's will do it for free.

My favourite shoplifter was one who stole a pregnancy test,condoms and lubs

Please please please don't just use as many dots as you think you can for the points of ellipsis I can't stand it! It is three dots... And only three... Ok?

manti i just lolled my pants

candyandyoga, really?.....................

Manti! That's a classic

I once bought one in Sainsbos and the young man on the cash desk sniggered! . I'm not very sure why as obviously I didn't call him on it, but gathered my stuff and scuttled away as fast as my tiny (and as it turned out, non-pg) legs would carry me.

But I have to say, I wouldn't buy a pg test in a pound shop. There's no way I'd be trusting a cut-price poas.