People who change clothing from unsold packs should be criminalised!

[OhNotSoSaintMaria]

Got a pair of PJ sets from sainsbury's last week, washed and worn twice now. While folding laundry just noticed the bottoms are a size smaller than the top. Thankfully not made much difference to my DD as she is small waisted, so does fit her but that means she'll grow out of bottoms before the tops! Why do people think it's ok to chop and change from sets as they like!?

It’s not stealing if they are paying for the other set they swapped around.

Yes it’s annoying and wrong though.

I work in a general retailer, but my "speciality" haha is the clothing section. It's only small and carries basic socks and undies, but last December I discovered someone had obviously only wanted a pack of 5 pairs of navy wool socks, so they took four pairs off the hanger and dumped them on the shelf before taking the navy pair from four other sets of the same colour combination. Every shift I discover packs opened and one missing, or sizes swapped over. It's soul destroying knowing the scabby fuckers have got away with it, and will because there aren't enough staff to stay in an aisle each all day while the shop is open.

It is stealing.
They are taking something they didnt pay for, it doesnt matter if they paid for something else which they chose to leave.

I have to put my hand up here and say I have been known to swap the tomato plants in the homebase mixed tomato packs around a bit. Sorry, but I only do it if one of the plants in the selection I want is battered about and I swap it for one with a chance of life.

Swapping sizes around because a kid has a bigger top half v bottom half is annoying yes but I don’t think it’s stealing. There still paying for the items. They are paying for the tops/bottoms just in different sizes to what was in the bag/on the hanger.

And no, I don’t do it but I don’t see how it’s stealibg either.

I picked up a box of a dozen eggs in Asda earlier this week and when I opened it to check for broken ones found 4 were missing. According to staff it happens all the time.

Sad really that anyone would be desperate enough to shoplift 4 eggs

I hate the people who take the men's underwear out of the boxes to check the size and then just throw them back on the pile. No one is going to bloody buy them now you have had your dirty disgusting hands all over them know your mans bloody size

Because they are depriving the retailer of the stock to sell. It's obtaining goods by dishonesty.

I have to admit I've done the swap thing before, back in my teens when a size 10 wasn't considered fat and shops didn't sell bikini tops and bottoms separately. I was top-heavy, and needed a size 16 top but a 10 bottom, and in desperation I did a swaparound in the shop as I'd already had the embarrassment of a bikini top exposing eveything because I thought it was less risky than the bottom falling down.

Serendipitously, I eventually made a pear-shaped friend who was the exact opposite in size to me, and we were able to buy both sizes and share.

Bikinis and size 10s are no longer on my radar these days...

on multipacks they are priced low because it is selling volume. If you want one set of 6's and one of 9's then buy that - but you don't because it's more expensive.... For a reason

And if you swap things around who is going to buy the remainder? You have effectively cost the retailer as you have taken 2 sets out of stock but only paid for one

All that will happen is that the retailer will either decide it's not worth it to stock those products or put the prices up

Once I went to get my favourite magazine at smiths in the airport and was excited about the free nail polish I was going to have with it. Every single one was stolen. People had just ripped open the bag and taken out the nail polishes. They phoned the other smiths in the airport for me and they were all stolen there too.

Of course it's stealing. What's going to happen to the unmatched set that's left behind?

My friend ordered a pair of trousers online. When they arrived, she tried them on and someone else’s knickers fell out of the leg.

Not the same, but I just had to share.

I know someone who has feet 2 sizes different, do you know what, He buys 2 pairs of shoes every time he needs 1 pair!! He isn't a thief, unlike a lot of people on here! Changing packs/sizes around is theft, can't believe so many people think that it's ok?

YANBU. Also the people who go through mixed sizes egg packs selecting big ones for themselves and leaving some other person with 15 mini-eggs.

Bloody hell is this a thing? Do people actually do that

Quite often children’s clothes are more expensive the older the age so I would say swapping the packs is stealing.

Is it wrong I read the eggs comment and immediately equated mini eggs with the chocolate ones and wondered why you'd complain about having them 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

Yanbu. I've started buying ds men's XS pjs bottoms though because those in packs are just so mis sized

My dc are all consistently longer on top than on bottom. Sometimes the difference is up to a size. But I seem to have managed so far without swapping out a different pair of bottoms from pyjama etc packs and making another set unusable for someone else and unsellable for the shop - which latter factor makes it, if not exactly stealing, certainly criminal damage IMO. No regard whatsoever for the inconvenience and annoyance to others, or that anyone's needs or interests matter other than their own.

I had this in Clark’s, picked up a lovely little pair of shoes in the sale for dd, she was sleeping but she’d been measured the day before so I wasn’t too bothered about her trying them on, only when I got home I noticed one was a 2.5g and the other was a 3f. I returned them to the store but obviously they’d be no good to anyone.

Buying mis-matched sizes is hugely annoying but at least they were new. I bought a pack of school shirts all folded in a cellophane wrapper for ds and when I took them out the bloody things were literally black round the collars and frayed round the cuffs

Extra-cheeky fuckery

Is it wrong I read the eggs comment and immediately equated mini eggs with the chocolate ones
I did this too!! I was like, eh, more mini eggs for me!
Genuinely didn't know that was a thing. I open to check for broken eggs, not to see the sizes, wouldn't even occur to me!

I don't bother with packs of things as I'm a size bigger on the bottom thanks to my fat legs than the top. My mother still insists on buying me packs of PJs at christmas in 'my size' but the bottoms won't go up my thunder thighs lol!

How can anyone think this is right when another unsuspecting customer buys a set advertised as a certain size / age just to find some other entitled person has taken items out of the pack or put different sizes/items in. If you need a different size etc from the advertised pack then fucking buy it. Don't do someone else over who then ends up with something other than what is advertised. This comes from someone by the way who's ds had short legs and a long body. Not one did I think it was my right to mix and match a set . I worked full time miles away from the shops when my ds was a little boy and without access to a car. To take items back was a massive faff and took half a day away from quality time I could have been spending from my son. But that's ok as long as some people get what they want by switching packs over

Battleaxe there's some dirty filthy bastards about.

I hate the people who take the men's underwear out of the boxes to check the size and then just throw them back on the pile. No one is going to bloody buy them now you have had your dirty disgusting hands all over them angry know your mans bloody size

This is a brilliant bit of everyday sexism.

On the other side of this, I remember putting together a 'flat' of roughly 15 oranges at Costco (can't remember the size of the tray exactly). WHy? Because some of the oranges in the flats were going mouldy, and I wanted 15 non-mouldy oranges.

An older man starting berating me for picking out 15 orange oranges and said I shouldn't be doing that because others would be stuck with more mouldy ones. He didn't understand it when I asked him who in their right minds would buy already mouldy oranges but continued to gripe at me until I moved on.

Seriously. The trays were flat, so it was instantly obvious if the fruit was 'good' or 'not good' ... so I wasn't sticking anyone else with bad fruit. I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't do the same ... yet he seriously expected me to buy mouldy oranges if I wanted oranges!