Yellow stickered items stolen in supermarket

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Hi, I chanced upon some nice Asda yellow stickered items (cream cakes, vanilla cream sponge cake), reduced to very cheap. I don’t usually shop at this time do so was pleased to be able to get some bargains for family for dessert.

Got to till and remember setting them on conveyor belt. Got home and realised they were not amongst the shopping. I checked receipt and I hadn’t paid for them, so it’s clear someone has taken them whilst I was scanning my own shopping (they’re one of those standalone self/scan tills) and talking to assistant. There were a couple of people queuing so one of them has taken them.

The cakes are no big deal in the grand scheme of things, but the thought that people will help themselves to your shopping is really annoying!

Has this happened to someone else? Do people do this because it’s not technically stealing as I hadn’t paid for them yet?

@FallonCarringtonWannabe

This is so bizarre.

I mean, of course there have been times over the years when I’ve got to Asda, and thought I’m really not in the mood for this, seen a full trolly and thought if I took that I could go straight home, and meals for the week would also be more exciting. But I’d never actually do it.

ha ha

@FallonCarringtonWannabe

This is so bizarre.

I mean, of course there have been times over the years when I’ve got to Asda, and thought I’m really not in the mood for this, seen a full trolly and thought if I took that I could go straight home, and meals for the week would also be more exciting. But I’d never actually do it.

This is a great idea!

@BLASTPROCESSING

Reduced stuff is serious business. Have you never watch customers circle a poor price sticker carrying staff member like a pack of starving vultures?

I leave the shop floor to do the reductions if that happens to me. Take them out the back and do them in peace! By the time I get back they've usually got the message and disappeared.

@Slippy78

They weren't 'stolen'. They didn't belong to you yet.

Slippy78 is obviously one of them 😱

@SlopesOff

Pinching stuff from trolleys also happens in IKEA. You get all the way round, pay and then get home to find that some swine has pinched the one thing you went in for and you are left with the stuff you bought and didn't need.

Agh that is so annoying, going back to get something in IKEA is a nightmare!

Thieving bastards! Double check your receipt to make sure nothing was nicked from the other end either.

Jesus, some people are unbelievable.

@FallonCarringtonWannabe

This is so bizarre.

I mean, of course there have been times over the years when I’ve got to Asda, and thought I’m really not in the mood for this, seen a full trolly and thought if I took that I could go straight home, and meals for the week would also be more exciting. But I’d never actually do it.

Haha, it’s funny you say that, one lady had such a full trolley, £100 + at least, I did have a glance in case there was something I had missed (but to get it myself not take hers!)

@JamminDoughnuts

to steal someone's reduced cakes is very mean

I just wonder how you even enjoy the cake knowing you took it from someone else!

I want to clarify, i meant walk to the till with the full basket and pay, not steal.

I've had it with a cooked chicken before at Morrisons . I lucked out and the cooked rotiserrie chickens (aka the best ones) were down to 50p, so I popped one in my basket, and had the basket kinda looped around my arm so I could use both hands when looking for something else (if that makes sense), and i felt a tug and someone had just brazenly grabbed it! I was gutted as I never seem to find bargains and I had already planned what to do with it (omlette for lunch and some in a tiger baguette for dinner), I figured for someone to have the minerals to do that I did not fancy having a go!

Never underestimate people in supermarkets. You only have to see how people reacted at the start of covid - fighting in the aisles for loo roll and sanitiser, to know what some people are capable of.

Has happened to me. I parked my trolley. Went to grab something. I turned back to my trolley, to find loads of my stickered things gone. Was shocked at their cheek.

I’ve seen people pluck things out of other shoppers trolleys when they aren’t looking. Mostly in the early Covid days (loo rolls and pasta). Very odd behaviour!

I know someone (not remotely hard up) that times their supermarket trips to coincide with the time they start doing the fridge yellow stickers. He is just a weird person generally.

Although I haven’t had anyone take something from my trolley I have had a til worked take my Morrison’s more card fiver. I only realised when I got home and looked at the app.

@Cloudybean that’s what makes it so annoying, when you’ve already planned when/how you’re going to eat it! I don’t usually buy cream cakes so this was a good excuse to indulge!

Taking it out of your actual basket was so brazen @Cloudybean !

Agree with pp re IKEA, folk take stuff and you just can’t bear to go round again to replace it.

I say trolleys should have lids.

Yess! Cooked chicken gets marked down to pennies at 4pm ish .Got home a few times & wasnt in my shopping any more. I buy it every trip reduced or not.Always same lady on checkout i chat to so I now know times stuff gets marked down ! Shes saved me a fortune, bless her.

I had a book taken out of my trolley, it was the only copy, reduced to a £1.

I've never had food taken from my trolley.

I don’t get it! You put it on the conveyor belt and someone stole it from there? The next person in the queue then? How did you not see them?

stealing out of trolleys I can understand, but can’t figure out the logistics of this one.

No but I remember a friend stalking a guy because he had a trolley full of designer kettles that had been reduced to a silly price. No bloody way did he need them all, he'd have been flogging them for 5 times the price on eBay so the minute his back was turned she tiptoed behind him and pinched one for herself. 😂😂😂

Next time (if I ever go again) I will put my stuff in IKEA bags before it goes in the trolley and then put something heavy on top, remove the heavy thing before checkout.

I was putting normal priced stuff on top of the yellow stickered stuff to cover it up today, I don't usually, just felt I should, and then I found this thread and it makes sense. I don't usually spy on men with Polish sausages either but something told me to be wary.

People will go to any lengths for bargains. There are two regular vultures circling in our local tesco express. they pounce on the person reducing. Sometimes they put the semi reduced items in their basket then circle the store until the person doing the reducing comes out to do final reductions to silly prices then they stand there and hand them to them for further reducing. Unbelievable. I think you just have to feel sorry for people if they are so desperate for reduced food.

@FallonCarringtonWannabe

This is so bizarre.

I mean, of course there have been times over the years when I’ve got to Asda, and thought I’m really not in the mood for this, seen a full trolly and thought if I took that I could go straight home, and meals for the week would also be more exciting. But I’d never actually do it.

This would be a brilliant cooking show.

You take someone else's trolley and have to cook a meal from it-
bit like that show whose name escapes me-you got given a bag with ingredients? think there was a red pepper v green pepper?
Am I imaging that? Anyone?

@Slopesoff "I don't usually spy on men with Polish sausages but something told me to be wary".

Best . Comment. Ever. On innuendo value alone!