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?

*Theft from stores also affects the general public as the price of food etc is increased to absorb losses. Don't be naive to think that large organizations will lose out from collecting profits, it's the consumer who loses out.

Which ever way you look at it, whether it's benefit fraud or shoplfting, the principle is still the same. Theft from either of these examples has consequences for all of us.*

The principle is not the same because it’s simply a myth that shoplifting leads to increased prices for all. Something which the supermarkets have got you falling for hook line and sinker

I hope you are as outraged and proactive about supermarkets paying less thsn a living wage and how they are effectively stealing from the tax payers pockets to top up their staff's income with tax credits?

Oh, I just knew she was going to be unemployed, whilst sporting all the latest designer gear and enjoying holidays abroad . These OPs are so formulaic.

I have no idea why you'd even have this person on your facebook. Just delete her.

she really doesn't seem to be struggling financially. Fb 'friend' and her children wear all the latest designer gear, she's just posted about her recent holiday abroad, and she doesn't work

All this from glancing at one photo...... hmmm!

Leave her alone, delete off your Facebook and get your own life and mind your own business!

@glintandglide states is correct!

People like you are why I choose my FB friends very carefully!

Off to work so I'll come back later.

@JockTamsonsBairns exactly! And all known from one photo that came up on OPs news feed.....

@Rockandrolling do you work as a security guard for a supermarket?

I’m always astonished by people who claim the police will “bollock” you for reporting a crime they deem not worthy of their attention. I would fully understand if they chose not to take it any further but to tell the public off for reporting suspicious activity? I bloody hope not. For what it’s worth the people who stole my bag on the way back from the tube eventually went down for 10 years for some kind of complicated drugs empire thing. Crime is interlinked.

Oh, I just knew she was going to be unemployed, whilst sporting all the latest designer gear and enjoying holidays abroad. These OPs are so formulaic

Yes. This.
Has this criminal overlord clutching a passport and dressed in designer gear got a fag hanging out of her gob? If not, why not? It would help with the overall picture, y'know.

"She doesn't work" does not equal "she is unemployed".

Blimey a lot of info gleaned from a pic

Years ago I worked with a shop lifter. In this case he wasn’t stealing to survive or find a drug habit, he just enjoyed the thrill and often would give stuff away. He would tell us how and why he did it, and the blatant way he would stroll in and walk out again with whatever people wanted. If you wanted he would go and get you a tv, clothes, food. He had a compulsion to shop lift.

All jolly japes about it until we found out he had managed to steal customers money from our employer and bang went the Christmas bonus and much needed pay rise as they had lost a significant amount by the time it was discovered. It made the owners of our family owned firm very ill. No one had thought to tell them of his shop lifting so they trusted him more than they should and it was never the same.

I never asked for anything, it didn’t sit right with me, but I also didn’t tell my employer. A lot of us felt that maybe we should’ve said something, particularly when we were indirect victims too.

I agree the items are likely to be stolen but I wouldn't be either sure enough or care enough to go reporting it.

I checked my facebook selling pages out of curiosity - no cheese! I'm fairly sure plenty of people would buy it if they saw it. Cheese is both expensive and very popular.

One of my close friends is severely bulimic and a pretty heavy cocaine user. expensive cheese is one of her major loves in life. She has done an awful lot of supermarket shoplifting and cheese was definitely a large part of each trip. She knows it's wrong and hates herself for it but she's sick and addicted. If it was available to buy cheaply on facebook I can see her doing so.

And all known from one photo that came up on OP's newsfeed

All this from glancing at one photo

Blimey a lot of info gleaned from a pic

Before taking the piss, why not actually read and digest what I've written properly?
I mentioned that fb friend had posted pics of her holiday... I was then accused of 'stalking' because I wrote that I looked at ONE photo (which came up with others on the newsfeed).
I've then been accused of 'gleaning a lot of info from one photo'

FFS... do I need to spell it out? I KNOW this person. I KNOW she is unemployed, and the reason I mentioned the holiday and designer clothes is because it tallies with the fact she is obviously not struggling for money.
As for the 'get a life' comments from certain posters, you sound like you're condoning someone who is extremely likely selling stolen goods. Where's your morals?

The things is with morals, is that they are different for different people. Basic fact of life

Yes I know glint. I'm just glad that I've got some.

Please live stream your citizens arrest 😉

Please live stream your citizens arrest 😉

^^this is hilarious!!

Yet another one of these threads. Tired old formula. C5 even got sick of it.

Yet another one of 'what' threads leftrightcentre?

Leftrightcentre. I understand your confusion, but this is a special story. This woman has only just started selling very cheap stuff online, today in fact. And it has funded designer clothes and holidays (must have been on credit).
Unless she has only just transitioned her criminal empire to have an online sales department... In which case its entrepreneurship that some businesses could learn from.

Lichtie, where did I actually say these recent products have funded her holiday and designer clothes?

Maybe this bundle of stuff I've just seen are just a long line of many previous ones. I've already said it wouldn't surprise me if she is a shoplifter, giving my reasons why.

This woman has only just started selling cheap stuff online. TODAY in fact
Lichtie, considering I posted this thread YESTERDAY, it shows you've not read things properly! And I didn't say 'today' yesterday either!

@Rockandrolling you've asked AIBU to be pissed off..... people have correctly said yes YABU it's none of your fucking business, you interfering judgemental busybody... but you don't want to hear that???

Get a life and stop thinking you're anyway better than the next person!!