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.

A shopkeeper near me had his door kicked in one night recently. He had CCTV and someone was able to ID the culprit (small town). So he got hold of Plod.

Plod did the square root of fuck all.

This sort of thing will lead to vigilantism eventually, and someone will die and there will be hand-wringing and wailing about what our country has become. But it's becoming it now, we can see it. And I'm not sure anyone is listening - Plod recently acted all surprised about some brazen daytime hare coursing, when rural communities have been complaining about theft, intimidation and arson for bloody years.

Edited to add, we were completely skint when I was a teenager, down in the bottom 5% or thereabouts. New shoes always a crisis, no holidays, fish and chips a once a flood luxury, the lot. I was brought up to be scrupulously honest by a scrupulously honest DM. She'd have died of shame if I'd pinched a sandwich.

I saw this happen in Greggs, a boy took a can of drink and walked out. I told the lady behind the counter and she went outside and took it off him

@ArtTheClown yep - I was posting same time as you to say the same.

It’s happening everywhere, loads of shops. I work in a convenience store in an area that is thought of as “nice” and we have loads of thefts. Different scumbags people nick different things: there’s chicken man, steak man, coffee man, the detergent ladies, the cheese couple… we ban them, we chase them out, they’re always willing to come back and take a chance and why wouldn’t they? We can’t follow them out the shop, police won’t do anything generally. My colleagues and I get slagged off by customers because we “don’t do anything”. Even though we can’t. It’s like they want to see a retail worker getting the crap kicked out of them or something.

I saw this about 6 years ago in Greggs, so it's not new, although the scale of it has massively increased, it seems. A man starting taking sandwiches and rolls off the shelf, and putting them into a Sainsbury's carrier bag. I told him to stop and tried to prevent him leaving by blocking the door, but he pushed past me and got away. I shouted for the staff to help, but they were unconcerned - presumably had been told not to do anything.

Same thing happened in W H Smith's last year - I tried to stop the thief, and called out for the staff. One of them came running over but he was too late - the thief had gone.

I was in Bristol last week and Greggs had a security guard!

This was at lunchtime not at night or anything.

This sort of thing will lead to vigilantism eventually, and someone will die and there will be hand-wringing and wailing about what our country has become.

Already happening - a farmer hogtied two trespassers to his quad bike and drove them to the police station. The police arrested.... the farmer.

I was paying for petrol the other day when a man came in and began filling up a large shopping bag with drinks, crisps, chocolates etc. One staff member shouted and told the shoplifter he was being caught on CCTV and the man just chuckled. The other staff just seemed resigned to it. He helped himself to a coffee from the Costa machine and calmly walked out with his bag of goods. I don’t know what to say, parts of this country seem lawless.

Lol at all the Greggs snobs though. Their croissants are great!

Our CCTV caught someone trying to break into the shop overnight. Got a great view of his face. He blew a kiss to the camera. Cocky shit. But as the police did fuck all about it I guess he had every reason to be cocky.

I can only hope they were genuinely starving.

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Seriously??? This is your reaction??

I live in NI and I flatly refuse to pay for plastic bags unless they see me lifting them.

The shopkeeper should've told Plod that the guy was loudly misgendering people while booting the door down. Then they'd have fucking turned up.

🙄

I love a Greggs, judge away from the lofty heights of your high horse.

I saw that.
The lads were riding motorbikes all over his young crop or something.
The cops of course won't come out, there aren't enough of them. And rural police stations have all been shut anyway.

LOL, yes, probably.

People do it because they can.

I can see this country becoming a pay in advance click and collect type system when it comes to food and shopping.

They were talking about shop lifting on good morning Britain only today discussing how bad shoplifting has become. They interviewed a woman who openly admits to shoplifting and earns high amounts of money for doing it. Even when she gets caught. she gets let off and she was bragging about how she’s proud of it and thinks it’s a victimless crime. It’s only going to get worse with the col

When I worked in Halfords on the tills as a student over 20 years ago someone once asked me some questions about something to distract me while his mate walked out with an armful of car mats around the other side of the tills behind my back. Was ever thus.

We've got one of the Greggs Outlets near me and I've seen someone walk out with several packs of doughnuts from there - they're already day old and discounted, why target that for nicking!

No one is that daft. Blair/Brown had 13 years to improve law and order and failed miserably. A lot of damage was done under Keir Starmer whilst he was in charge of public prosecutions and was, back then, widely condemned for being too soft. The lawlessness and lack of morals we see today started 30 years ago!

We were in Starbucks in the city centre at the weekend, an elderly man, very well dressed, designer satchel bag was hovering around the sandwiches. I only noticed him because he had lovely unusual shoes on. Pointed dress shoes. I didn't notice but my husband said he took 3 packets of egg bites.

Honestly, he didn't look like the stereotypical "shop lifter" for want of a better description. I wonder why he does it - maybe because he can?

Got to hope that you're joking and not just one of the ever increasing feckless!

I do it all the time. It's not that serious. Greggs makes so much money I'm sure one pack of doughnuts won't hurt.

You steal all the time? If I said what I think of you I'd get banned.

Theft has become absolutely normalised amongst some sections of society. Not just the filling bags in Greggs type, but absolutely loads of organised crime. Lorries are being followed from warehouses by gangs intent on stealing certain brands and raided at stops. There are no punishments. You can steal with impunity.

I got a new iPhone shortly after release last year and was slightly baffled when DPD left a non descript box on my doorstep and didn’t request ID or a photo. I asked the driver as he got into his van “oh is there a phone in here?” and he said “I doubt it”.

Apple apparently decided this year that the best way to stop thefts on route was to make the parcels so ordinary that no one would clock their contents 🤯

I haven’t seen this, but it doesn’t surprise me. There is no deterrent and the staff are usually told not to challenge it. It’s not worth risking their safety. They are paid to serve customers not to rugby tackle thieves. I don’t know what the solution is, but I suspect it’s going to get a lot worse with the cost of living rising. If someone is hungry then they need to eat. If they don’t have money then they will steal.