Knowingly stealing - food shop delivery

[Ponter]

We order from one of the main supermarkets. On the day of the delivery (last week), I decided to cancel the shop as many of my plans had changed so i didn’t need some of the stuff that had been ordered.

Anyway, the food van turned up and I had a hunch that if I accepted the order I could get the groceries and still get the refund. Which is exactly what happened. It was a risk but I still needed majority of the groceries ordered so thought I’d chance it. We had similar happen once before but we were honest in that scenario.

Even if the supermarket comes back and want me to rectify the error/pay up I can do so - that’s no problem.

I know it’s wrong but I believe the majority would do the same.

Be honest would you?

She said she chanced it when the opportunity presented itself. I have had similar with cancelling and the groceries turning it up. You can’t plan it because most of the time when you cancel it doesn’t turn up.

I didn't think you could cancel at the last minute without being charged, which supermarket allows this?

And yes, OP, it's stealing and I wouldn't have done it. HTH

This is miles away from finding an extra item in the delivery and just keeping it, which I believe most people would do. This is a whole other level - basically an entire weekly shop. Very much theft.

No, I wouldn't do that. I'd tell the delivery driver that the order had been cancelled. I suspect that anyone that would accept the order is not going to say so on this thread now though after the pasting the OP has got!

I did once get a whole tray of shopping for free. I did a click and collect order and when I went to get it, all of my cold items had been duplicated. I did point it out to the guy and he just shrugged and said I'd only been charged once so just take it, presumably because it would be a faff to put back or maybe they couldn't do that after it being in the van for a certain amount of time? Anyway, it ended up being a win for me as the tray had a few high value items (Lurpak!) but I did at least try to give it back.

Well, I mean, it is stealing and it is wrong. But, if you'd told the driver that you'd cancelled the order, I bet he would have said to keep it anyway. What else could they do with it - they wouldn't be allowed to put it back on the shelves due to food safety regulations, I don't think. So I think you would have been able to keep the shopping anyway but with a clear conscience. If you phoned up now and asked to be charged they might charge you but I wouldn't be that confident that they would. So, although I would definitely have told them I'd cancelled the order when they arrived, I also wouldn't waste time feeling like the terrible criminal many here are calling you because you didn't.

I guess that is a good reason to steal.

You can't say that anymore. But you seem OK with it, so I don't know why you posted this unless it was to be told stealing is fine and to revel in getting away with it.

No, because it's dishonest.

If I was struggling to afford food then I might think differently but in the case of hosting people and having fancy things, absolutely not.

So many people are having to rely on foodbanks at the moment, and there are times when the foodbanks themselves don't have enough to give to everyone.

Don’t you tell the driver you didn’t pay for it? Or call after to pay for it?

Plus if she didn’t know she might get away with not paying, what has the friends story of successfully getting a free delivery got anything to do with this? 🤔

unless she preempted she could get a free delivery based on her friends example

Well no but there obviously plenty of people who would and that’s why society is going to shit. Being a literal thief is nothing to be proud of.

my child once stole a creme egg and I marched him back into the coop.

it’s appalling what OP has done

I wouldn't do it and I don't condone stealing, but the fact you were planning on hosting a dinner party with nice wine and nice meat suggests you're not exactly living on the breadline? I think that makes it even worse.

Of course it is. They didn't know she cancelled it but she did.

I am not a thief so no, I wouldn't do this. Good to know your "price" though - some meat and some wine. If everyone was so cheap we'd have nothing but criminals.

My experience is you cannot purposefully engineer cancelling/getting a refund and the driver still turning up. I have cancelled multiple times last minute (stuck in traffic on school run most often the cause as I like having helpers to put stuff away). Maybe twice has the driver shown up in all the years I have done online shopping.

No. I wouldn’t want to think of myself as that sort of person.

In any case they’ll charge you eventually.

This makes utterly grim reading.

No I wouldn't do that. I'd be honest when the driver arrived and say I'd cancelled the order so they could take it back to store. You have basically willingly shoplifted (just without going to the actual shop).

Wow, having read all of the OP’s updates this is absolutely scummy behaviour.

This is Waitrose isn’t it. You will have get away with it. But they will have you marked and if you ever have any issue with any order again you will not get a sympathetic response.

What you have done absolutely fulfills the definition of theft in the

Is this for real?

How are so many people absolutely convinced that "everyone" would do the same and steal if they could???

Are we in some immoral parallel universe here?!

This is the chancing it element of the thieves story. Her friend chanced it and got a free delivery.

which encouraged this one to do the same. There’d be no chance, no “knowingly stolen” in the thread title, and no mention of the friend, is this was just a mistake.

I think this post is intended to provoke these reactions. A genuine thief wouldn't come on to boast especially as
A) it would give the supermarket a heads-up as to this form of scam, potentionally ending it for themselves
B) we all know that stock theft is one of the factors for prices being driven up for us all, so something to is calculated to rile us up

Statute and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Knowing it's wrong doesn't make it better , it makes it worse .