People openly stealing in Greggs

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Whilst I was in the queue for a coffee, 4 different people came in and took several sandwiches, doughnuts and drinks.

They were not together.

I feel like Greg’s need to put every behind the counter, I can’t see how it’s sustainable long term.

I see this at different Greggs aswell but there will normally be just one person. Today was shocking.

That’s a shame but I don’t see why the staff at Greggs should have the additional work of fetching sandwiches and drinks for customers when they’re making hot drinks etc and working the till .
They are busy enough as it is in the 2 that are near me and the one in the small town I often travel to .
I haven’t seen theft myself from any of those branches of Greggs .
Where I live is mixed income mixed social status but I’d say that most are decent people ( small town Scotland)

Cut their bloody hand off that might work or tattoo thief across their face....

Cant beat a bit of 'chop chop square' can you!!

There was a programme on shoplifting last month. Apparently, the most stolen item is denture fixative.

It might come to that if/when we have sharia law.

Perhaps those who sell sandwiches and other lunchtime delights should make it less able for people to steal?

At one place of work there was a sandwich bar across the road in a covered market. It was not much larger than a kiosk really. There was only room for two people and a mountain of bread and sandwich filler.

The queue used to stretch for a long way around the market, mostly single file, they offered the best sandwiches for miles around. They had no room for anyone to nick anything.

I see this happening daily in supermarkets, they target booze, laundry items and chocolate. Staff and security cannot touch the shoplifters and the shoplifters are aware of this. Whatever happened to a citizens arrest? The law needs to change as it is getting worse. I feel sorry for the staff as it really is distressing for them.

Citizens arrest only works when there are police relatively close by, they actually bother to turn up, and the actually bother to arrest. Unfortunately they’re only interested in serious crimes and thought crimes, so you’d be waiting forever if you arrested a shoplifter as they simply can’t be arsed to attend. But they’d soon attend if the offender phoned them claiming they had been assaulted and held against their will. Law and order has broken down.

My local Morrison's has now put all spirits in locked cages. You need to ask a member of staff to open a door to make your selection. Security tags evidently not a deterrent. Very grim.

The top 10% also have about 60% of the wealth, so that sounds about right doesn't it.

Actually, no

The top ten per cent of income tax payers earned 35.1 per cent of total income in 2024-25 and paid 60.2 per cent of income tax, up from 52.9 per cent in 2005-06.

So they're paying twice as much, compared to the value of the work they actually put in.

They did 30% (value, rather than hours) of the work in the UK, and paid 60% of the NHS, schools, pensions, benefits and everything else.

What is it with these posters who think they are oh-so-superior with their snobby, judgy, comments? News flash people: we don't care about what you do/don't eat/drink, it's boring.

Actually, no. I said about 60% of the wealth, not income. They leverage that wealth for 'off-book' income that reduces or avoids tax and is not included in the figure you gave for income. Of course the figures are skewed by the super-rich, and look much worse up at their end.

We have free coffees in Greggs for a year but haven’t taken one yet as every Greggs we’ve been in to, the tables have been filthy and the clientele looked pretty awful as well - as tho’ they needed to/would choose to be stealing from the shop.

Still wrong

In 2020, the ONS calculated that the richest 10% of households hold 43% of all wealth.

Fairly reasonable, given that they're doing 30% of the work.

In fact, pretty much spot on for 99% of the top 10%,. 9% of all wealth belongs to the top 0.1%, so in fact that 99% of the top 10% (ie excluding the top 0.1%) hold only 34% of the wealth. And do 30% of the work.

Yet somehow, the punitive tax policies - and the snarky comments - are aimed at that 99% of the top 10% who are doing more than their share of the work and paying for much more than their share of the state services and benefits.

'Thank you' would do.

I find this quite sad as when I was a support worker working for a local charity who specialise in helping those with addiction and homelessness Greggs was regularly donating to the hostel that we ran their surplus food at the end of the day.

Now I work in the railway so regularly stop off at various Greggs stores in the south and south east on my lunch breaks and have many times brought a homeless person food and drink.

With so many food banks and soup kitchens for the homeless these days and the kind hearted members of the public who will buy food and drink for homeless people and addicts most of these thefts are probably for financial gain.

57% (ONS Chancel and Piketty, 2021).

Was talking to a friend last night who works in a bakery in Leeds. The homeless come in for the leftovers at the end of the day. One man when it's cold comes in asks for hot water sits out of the way and sleeps in the warmth.

At the railway station in the evening are pop up soup kitchens where they can get a hot meal. Soups, chilli etc. there are many shelters with beds but it's still not enough. There's been a huge increase in homeless people she says.

One woman was given a pot noodle and asked the shop for hot water. . She said you can tell the newly homeless from the long term ones.

It's awful to hear when you're living in an area where there are only a few that so many suffer elsewhere. They're not druggies, alcoholics, immigrants just Yorkshire folks in dire straits.

We don’t know the circumstances behind the person stealing but regardless when has stealing become an acceptable thing to do by anyone.

Jesus mind your own business, hungry people

Most staff at Greg's are women, either under 21 or over 50. I wouldn't be putting myself at risk of violence, hepatitis or god knows what else from a junkie shoplifter, for minimum wage. Especially as the law is so screwed that I'd probably be charged with assault if I put my hands on them.

This is absolutely true. Ignorant people just call them scum and haven't a clue what's going on right in front of them. They just blame people on benefits etc. They are clueless and part of the reason we have come to this.

People voted tory for 14 years. They left a calamitous mess. Right wing mugs just blame Labour for everything, even though it's all their fault. They gave us the tories and brexit. Well done chaps.

Theft is not okay. I don't care whatever the reason is. Don't take what isn't yours.

Dffne
Are you a paragon of virtue ? Do you feel the same about big corporations not paying their fair share of tax, which is stealing from the state and ultimately us ?
or is it just the poor helping themselves to a few sandwiches that you object to ?