For being pissed off that a fb 'friend' is selling (what are clearly) stolen supermarket items on face book?

[Rockandrolling]

Someone on my friends list has begun selling an array of super market items, mainly cleaning products, baby milk, cheese and coffee, on her face book page and it's fairly obvious she's either stolen these items her self, or is selling them on behalf of someone else.

There's numerous photos of the products and messages from other's asking her for her prices and offering to buy whatever.
I'm really disgusted by this and hate thieves, and I'm thinking of screen shotting everything and reporting her to the Police (anonymously though)

Is there any point?. I can't 'proove' where these items are from after all, but I'm livid that this c.f. has the nerve to deal with stolen goods and sell them online!
What would you do in this situation?

Just because she added you on FB doesn't mean you're obliged to be fb friends. I'd delete her straight away if that's what she uses fb for

I quite often get offered cheese, bacon or steaks from a local shoplifters in the street. I always politely decline.

Really @glintandglide? It's a bloody joke. I thought these types of things were always done in person. I'm quite naive though. Very law abiding!

There's a (none too salubrious!) bar in my local town where you can go in at Christmas and get your Christmas shopping shoplifted to order by one of the thieves who drink in there. I kind of thought that's how these things were done. The shoplifters have moved with the times, going digital.

I'd still report though. As naive as I am to the ways and means they go about shifting stolen stuff, I can't see any other likely explanation for having all that stuff to sell.

In my experience, some food banks do give out all of the above, with the exception of cheese.

Reply:

"Oh my SIL just had a baby! She will have the formula. I'll get my brother to pick it up after work. He's doing a double shift though. Bless him, police work is hard. What's your address again?"

Dishwasher tablets and expensive plug ins? From a food bank?

Indeed, meat is popular with shoplifters. I remember that from when I worked in a supermarket as a student. People would often hide it under bags at the bottom of their trolley and just put all the cheap stuff up on the belt to pay for. I bet that's got easier now with people taking their reusable bags

They may not be stolen as you can buy boxes of products that are only just in date from cash N carries etc.

Near to where I used to live there was a huge proctor and gamble factory. Staff could buy lots of things at a fraction of the price they sell for, their monthly allowance was high (I remember a school friend whose dad worked there having a shed full of laundry detergent, shampoo, toothpaste etc). There were quite a few with smaller families or no DCs who'd but their full allowance and sell on, the wave at the factory wasn't amazing and this was seen as a perk, the people buying got a discount compared to shops and the factory workers for to top up their wages. I'm assuming there's nowhere like this near you?

If you were walking along the road and saw someone selling dodgy wares to passersby, what would you do? I'd walk on by and that's exactly what I think you should do here. I think your issue here is that you have 'friended' the person so have, effectively, brought her into your home.

I would unfriend her and leave her to do her thing. Life's too short to be worrying about what people you barely know might be doing.

I have an account at bookers where shops buy in bulk, maybe they have done something like that and are just trying to make a bit of profit? Could be stealing of course but it's possibly something like this?

Maybe woman is a mumsnetter dollowing financial advice of ‘have you anything to sell on Facebook’ (rather than the take in ironing advice)

I honestly don't think the police will do anything without hard proof. Probably not even a caution. But no harm in reporting.

It's not going to result in a criminal conviction as you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt.

The local shops may well be onto her if she is actually shoplifting them herself and getting an ASBO or whatever so she might not be getting away with it for much longer.

Items stolen from a supermarket are nearly always stolen and sold on by people with a drug addiction so I think you should report it.

She could very likely be selling these items on for a percentage of what the person that stole them is asking for.

I stopped speaking to my ex SIL after I found out she was buying items like this,the young lad she was buying them from was the nephew of my other SIL and my ex SIL knew that and she knew he was stealing and selling the stuff for drugs,the bitch,none of us have ever forgiven her for that!

Well it makes a change from all the “spare phones” that a distant relative keeps acquiring and selling on, I suppose. I understand keeping a £15 burner phone just in case your iPhone gets toddlered, but she just keeps remembering she has everything from those old Motorolas that used to be the dog’s nuts to latest models...🤨

I'd mind my own business, personally.

If you were walking along the road and saw someone selling dodgy wares to passersby, what would you do? I'd walk on by and that's exactly what I think you should do here. I think your issue here is that you have 'friended' the person so have, effectively, brought her into your home.

I completely agree with sandandsea - do you report car boot traders, market stalls? Half of them are at it too. The people who try and sell you stuff in pubs?

What do you think manufacturers and wholesalers do with surplus stock which is costing them money to store? Get what they can for it!
A quick google shows you can buy job lots of this stuff at auction .

in fact this is the business model of some discount shops.Buy bankrupt stock for next to nothin.There wasa documentary on recently about one of them and they were buying cans of soft drinks for less than a penny each

*If you're being petty about grammar Maccy, there's also supposed to be a 'full stop' at the end of a sentence.

Maybe you should take heed*

^^ love this!

What's more likely:

A: It's shoplifted from the local Tesco and being flogged cheap for cash.

B: The person is a canny entrepreneur who is buying in bulk, wholesale, and then selling on at such a low price she's barely making a profit.

"Gets ready to be shot down in flames, as everyone will say it increases costs"

But

Let the supermarket deal with, they should employ more security staff and ones that actually show a keen interest to catch shop lifters.

Supermarkets are greedy companies that are ruining high streets by selling everything from food to books to electrical stuff!!

Couldn't be bothered to stop someone nicking from them if they took it out in a wheelbarrow before my eyes!

She's much younger than me and the daughter of someone I know.

Mention it to her parent you are friendly with? Even if its just to enquire where is she getting all the supermarket stuff she is selling so cheap as you could go there too..

The parent might know nothing about it and be pleased you brought to her attention it looks like she could be handling stolen goods very publicly.

I’m aghast at the idea there are people who will buy cheese on Facebook

Defo stolen, I work in a supermarket and jars of coffee/big blocks of cheese/ wash gel/big choc bars are the most stolen items as well as meat