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Yellow stickered items stolen in supermarket

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stackemhigh · 18/10/2020 17:33

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?

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MillieVanilla · 18/10/2020 20:15

@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 saw that once. A woman was being exceptionally rude to the assistant doing final reductions as well. In the end, I said "I'm so sorry but may I just grab a chicken, thank you" Assistant turned to me, said "of course, thanks for being polite enough to wait and ask". She then grabbed a chicken, one of the posh ones, far larger than the one I was planning to grab, stuck a 50p label on it and handed it to me, smiling. That felt like a gigantic win for manners

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 18/10/2020 20:17

@mumsiedarlingrevolta Can't Cook Won't Cook?

JurassicShay · 18/10/2020 20:19

@mumsiedarlingrevolta it was ready steady cook, loved that show as a kid.

Gingerkittykat · 18/10/2020 20:19

It was Ready Steady Cook with the red and green peppers.

I love a yellow sticker bargain as much as the next person but the behaviour around the reduced cabinet can be so brutal I daren't go near it.

Sparklfairy · 18/10/2020 20:20

@mumsiedarlingrevolta ready steady cook! With Ainsley Harriott

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 18/10/2020 20:21

oh of course it was ready steady cook! Doh

mumsiedarlingrevolta · 18/10/2020 20:22

Of course it was! thanks all-I loved it too-so basic for today!!

SchrodingersImmigrant · 18/10/2020 20:27

You touch my food, you lose an arm.
I can marinade and grill anything, so yeah😂

haha kind of what what my mum said when I told her, she said be thankful they’re gone, you don’t need the extra calories grin
😂

chocolatespiders · 18/10/2020 20:28

How disappointing..

I actually avoid the final reduction time in the supermarkets now as seeing the same people bag themselves a trolley full makes me angry. I feel it should be shared better between more people rather than four people working together to bag it all.
Our tesco once did a queue system where you could take 5 or 6 items and then had to queue again this was better but didn't last.
In a Sunday there is a small group who stand near the area from midday not sure the point of that they just get in people's way.
I could really do with some bargains to get me through to payday this week but I will go to the community fridge where they do limit the items you can take so everyone gets a nice bit of food.

iwishiwasonabeachnow · 18/10/2020 20:34

oh god I once picked something out of a trolley next to the shelf of yellow stickered items. I didn't realise that it was some woman's trolley full of only yellow stickered food, I just thought it was more stuff going onto the shelf! She was rightly gobsmacked at my nerve and I was absolutely mortified although it was at the end of a 12-hour shift and I was a complete zombie at the time...

I still cringe at it 10 years later!

JamminDoughnuts · 18/10/2020 20:34

so this TV programme should be Cant shop, wont shop, where someone does their shopping,
but you pay for it and have to utilise it for a week!

pollywollydoodler · 18/10/2020 20:39

My mom in her 80s loves a bargain but for months before lockdown wasn't able to get any bargains as the same 3 adults would surround the shelf and take everything (a trolley full) as it was priced...then stick the occasional thing back..do you think they flog it on?
Maybe they should vary the times to discourage swoopers

FurrySlipperBoots · 18/10/2020 20:39

I think an individual would have to be so desperate to stoop to this level they're more deserving of pity than anger. I remember doing a car boot once and this guy was pocketing things from my '5p' box - literally nothing but utterly worthless tat, kinder egg toys etc. It was in the run up to Christmas and I have often wondered since if he was nicking them for his children's stockings. The thing is if he'd told be honestly that he was desperate I would have let him help himself for free, and found him a couple of nicer things to take too, but as he was stealing I just pretended not to notice. I am sorry though OP, it leaves a 'bad taste' doesn't it.

Notimeforaname · 18/10/2020 20:41

I have a stolen shopping story but it wasn't at the conveyor belt.

Years ago my mum had come out of Tescos with a trolley full.
Taxi rank about 20 yards from the door.
Behind her in the queue was a really scruffy family from around the corner with their own full shopping trolley(they do actually smell) two taxis pull up, mum takes her bags out of trolley and puts them in front of the car boot. Taxi man starts loading them in car for my mum. Mum turned her back for two seconds to put the empty tolley in the bay right next to the taxi and turns around to find Scruff McDuff putting our last few bags into her taxi!
Mum shouts excuse me,those are mine.
Scruffy mutters something about not realising they weren't hers,..yeah right. My mum went through every bag...took hers out (about 3 or 4 bags) ,turned to the scruff and said "had you picked the bag with the soaps and toiletries I'd have let you have them you obviously need them more than us".

The absolute cheek of some people 🤣
We see them from time to time,they quickly look away .

Notimeforaname · 18/10/2020 20:43

And no they weren't poor or desperate they had a huge trolley full of crap.

waitforitwaitforit · 18/10/2020 20:47

@Rhine

Wow! I could sort of understand in Waitrose or M&S, but bloody Asda?! Why when there is much cheap stuff on sale there anyway?

Some people struggle to pay for food - even in Asda, believe it or not.

BlackSwan · 18/10/2020 20:47

This is just an indictment of life today. Pretty awful that groceries are unaffordable for a lot of people.

goldenharvest · 18/10/2020 20:47

Someone pinched a door (the last one of that design) out of our giant shopping trolley in B&Q while we were looking for door furniture.

Came back to it and door was gone. Saw a woman taking it through the checkout, but were too British to call her a thieving scumbag.

A full size door!

Notimeforaname · 18/10/2020 20:50

goldenharvest. What a cow!!! People amaze me!!

Notimeforaname · 18/10/2020 20:54

It was Ready Steady Cook with the red and green peppers wow it's been so long since I've seen that !! but was it not green peppers against red tomatoes?

SchrodingersImmigrant · 18/10/2020 20:55

Some people struggle to pay for food - even in Asda, believe it or not.

I don't think this was someone who struggles to pay for food tbh

deskthinker · 18/10/2020 20:58

The town I live in has a low income demographic with lots of outlet shops and bargen shops. Even in the normal shops we tend to get a lot of reductions. When I see a good bargin I like to get what i need but I never clear it out as I think other people might like a bargin too. However I see a lot of people just clear the reduced items out like vultures.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 18/10/2020 21:00

There used to be potatoes left in my local asda as a last veg in yellow stickers. No idea why people left them. Few pennies for them! I gladly gave them new home. I love potatoes😁

QueenMaryIII · 18/10/2020 21:04

I once watched a lady pick up 15 boxes of profiteroles, knowing an old lady (regular) wanted a box & had been there waiting before she turned up as we were having a chat whilst waiting.

I saw the old lady liberate one from her trolly &put it in her own, I can't say I blamed her. Said woman has now been banned as she was using her huge exposed bottom & trolley to block everyone else & scooping up absolutely everything, every single time. To give others a chance, the workers started leaving the reduced baskets away from her & she got nasty with the worker.

I've also seen 2 grown men in their 50's come to fisticuffs & be thrown out.

2020hasbeenbloodyawful · 18/10/2020 21:05

Some people struggle to pay for food - even in Asda, believe it or not.

The worst thing about this is that it's 99% likely that the thief was not struggling to pay. More likely a chancer who has had their eye on the cakes since OP picked them up.

There's always a few yellow sticker brigaders that take ownership of the yellow stickers. They go every night for bargains and get quite possessive over the spoils. I went to Morrisons a couple of times because the meat is reduced to pennies and you see grown adults snatching things and arguing like madmen and none of them seemed to be struggling.

At least the rude woman at the checkout in front of me who got into a brand new range rover didn't

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