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.

I suspect some people on this thread wouldn't say no to a return to the workhouses, and to Victorian values generally. There's a total absence of human compassion in some threads on here.

Agreed a soup kitchen provides one meal a day. Food bank useless for the homeless.

Notting Hill branch is where I saw the man with his carrier bag last weekend (he was being kicked out of the store for filling his Sainsburys carrier with various items and then came back to retrieve his empty carrier, which they gave to him). He was obviously well known to the staff there.

Agreed.This is why I have such an issue with the royal family. It's simply wrong that homelessness exists vs that.

Would you give a homeless person a room in your house if you had a vacant room?

I hate this kind of thing . It drives up the prices for everyone else. The genuinely poor will be affected by this .

Those people who sell things on at the pub that they've stolen are despicable . They could earn an honest living like everyone else!

I feel sorry for the genuine poor who suffer from prices rising due to dodgy Dave who sells shoplifters goods on at the local pub. People like him need to get a different occupation. The genuine poor oǹ the other hand, some of them may be unable to work or are caring for family members.

Yes such a great safety net for those in need. Just take yesterday’s spring statement as an example of how compassionate our Labour Government is 🙄

There are people who are facing the harsh reality of poverty in this country and thousands more children will be living in poverty thanks to yesterday’s spring statement. I was listening to Shelagh Fogerty on LBC yesterday and a man called in. He has to live in his car and is disabled. He can’t get assisted living accommodation because he’s so far down the waiting list and has been told there are over 700 people in front of him on the list. He admitted he had to do a bit of shopping lifting recently just so he could have something to eat. What would you say about him? Dont shoplift and go hungry?

This is going to get worse. People don’t care as long as it doesn’t affect them though.

As a severely disabled and chronically unwell person poverty and what the government are planning to do to us affects me very much I can assure you . I come from a background of abuse so if I were to lose my ability To live in my home due to poverty I would also be homeless.

I have sympathy for someone shoplifting who is hungry and needs to steal to survive and who can't work. I don't think people who lift carrier bags full of pastries to sell on down the pub come into that category .

Where's the sympathy for people like myself who are trying to make ends meet? There are many like me. People who sell stolen goods on are usually people who could do an honest days work if they wanted to .

instead our government targets the genuine.

Does anyone remember years ago a woman called Jay Cole on this morning who was claiming that She was too fat to work (!!) And saying she got too much in the way of benefits (although considering jobseekers was a pittance I'm not sure how she could have that much money). I suspect she was making most of it up (I wouldn't have said she was bigger than a size 30, so hardly immobile and disabled by her weight, she was in her 20s) and I was just a click bait story.

However, about a week or so it was in the papers that she had been caught shoplifting by a of doughnuts (I think that was Greggs) and I was like "really, if she has that much money like she claimed, she surely doesn't need to be shoplifting doughnuts !

As I suspect, I am guessing that was a story meant to take the pee . Can't believe someone would do something like shoplifting when they've just been on national tv claiming how they been gaming the system!

Absolutely would! Sadly I don't.

I would not. At all.

Why? It is well meaning.

Would you trust them? Would you let them smoke? Weed?

Best to donate to Salvation Army or Shelter.

Why are you assuming the homeless smoke weed?

They were two seperate questions. I asked if the poster would let a smoker into their house, and then referred to weed.

What is wrong with that?

Well, not really, because you said 'Would you trust them?' as an answer to whether someone would let a homeless person in their house (offensive enough in itself), then you asked about smoking, so contextually 'Weed?' unless you're auditioning for a remake of 'Bill & Ben' could only mean 'would you let them smoke weed?' given the preceding context. So my question stands, as you appear to think homeless people are more likely to smoke weed. (Dunno how you think they'd be able to afford it, but hey ho... 🤷‍♀️) If that's not what you think, you should have structured your questions differently.

I don't have sympathy or compassion for those scrotes who steal things from shops in order to sell on down the pub or whatever . Find a proper job! Nothing's stopping them doing that.

There will be some excuses "oh I can't. Too hard"

And instead of targeting these shirkers, the government are targeting disabled people. Disgusting.

Let’s be honest, the majority of people would not offer a spare room to a homeless person (regardless of weed smoking). If they did, there wouldn’t be the crisis there is. It’s very easy for someone to say on an online forum that they would … but if the opportunity arose, chances are they wouldn’t take an unknown stranger from the street into their home.

As previous posters have said, the best way to help is to donate to homeless charities - whether it’s donating time or money. I can completely see why someone in that state of desperation would steal, but from my understanding, the people stealing aren’t those on the street.

Same here. Sick to death of them

Can I ask where you live? This sounds terrible

Greggs need to crack down, and so do the police.

Ive see the same thing in Pret