Wtaf, there was someone walking around Sainsbury’s smoking a joint!

[goldfishbowl2025]

This is in a very naice area!! Literally this fella doing his shopping smoking a bloody joint, stinking the store out!! Skeleton staff.

i really wanted to say something but had the feeling he’d tell me to fuck off.

Does this happen in other areas?! Or this a first (am I being naive here?!).

I’ve seen plenty of grab and run shop lifters who literally take the train in - shop lift- then run back on to a train - it’s very close!

Thats because they start threads on here about you instead of saying anything in case you tell them to F off.

You should have gone to a place where you could not be overheard by him and called the police. Then let the staff know you have done this, as they should have the support of them, even if the police turned up after he had left the store.

Sainsbobs only exists to keep the riff-raff out of Waitrose.

(Whereas Waitrose's job is to keep the riff-raff out of Booths).

And so on and so forth.

😉

@suburberphobe

It's very likely that they can smell it, but unlikely that they'd say anything.

Why do you feel a compulsion to call people pearl clutchers? Is it important to you that everyone approves of things you choose to do?

For me it would be the fact that he was smoking that I'd dislike most, rather than his drug preference. I would have been less surprised if this person had been smoking tobacco, but personally I'd have found it just as unpleasant. Smoking in a shop is, thank goodness, totally unacceptable these days.

Do not be taken in by the propaganda. Cannabis is a very dangerous drug that ruins lives of the users and their families. It wrecks the mental heath of thousands of people, causes severe long term psychosis, which can lead to random violence. The Nottingam attacker was a heavy user, and many other of these type of attacks have been carried out by cannabis abusers. We are being programmed ti believe it is normal and safe, when we should be doing all we can to protect our families from it.

The police won’t respond to theft so they won’t rush out because someone is smoking a joint. We’ve had gangs come in and literally wipe us out of thousands and the police are not interested. It’s almost as if retail is lawless these days.

It’s never been acceptable to smoke anything in a supermarkets. Pubs, school staff rooms and even doctors offices used to be thick with smoke. But not shops or supermarkets.

and my DSiss Victorian house use to have a strong smell of cigarette smoke come through the walls from next door. Lots of houses in the UK aren’t built to a great standard.

These days with self checkouts and skeleton staff, people just do what the hell they like in shops, with without fear of repercussions.

Sounds odd. I live in a fairly shabby bit of South London and if someone did that in our local Sainsbury's the security guard would have them out on thier arse pretty quickly.

He shouldn't have been doing it but there is much worse things going on in the world than a man walking around sainsburys smoking a bit of a plant probably on the hunt for nothing more than doritos. I would have been surprised at the time and then thought no more of it. You were likely much safer around him than you are around someone who had been drinking and I'm sure there was some of those in the shop at the same time too

There were some young women vaping on a train I was on recently; guard turned a blind eye. It didn't bother me, but it might have bothered others. The women were all very good looking, dressed up for a night out, short skirts with legs that went on forever - I wondered if the (male) guard would have been as lenient had it been some scruffy old tramp who was vaping.

You've missed the point entirely.

But the big question, surely, is - What was he buying?
My guess is vast quantities of cookies and chocolate; he would have obviously started one of the multipacks before he got to the checkout.

I’d have thought that the security staff would have stopped him , but obviously not.
Goes to show how rife it is, even in ‘ nice ‘ areas.
It’s all you smell where I live or people take Ketamine or other drugs .
It’s depressing really to people need this in order to function.

Rizla, for sure 😁

That's grim OP, is there no security guard? You'd think there would be if people are stealing all the time.
You can always tell the potheads on these threads as they get super defensive.

Unfortunately I agree with you. People spitting in public, swigging alcohol, smoking joints and swearing loudly. Not all the time and definitely not every day but things that I witness more times than I’d like. Very sad.

I actually think that if you’re a weed smoker you become a bit immune to the smell. I can always smell it on my weed smoking friend. Their house reeks of it. And you can smell it when I’m at the end of their path. They are oblivious to it though

Maybe the nicer area stores don’t have a security guard? None of the supermarkets in my town have one, but I’ve seen them when I go to the bigger stores at a much dodgier town about 10 miles away!

When I worked in a local supermarket, at the time of night described, it would have been a handful of 16-18 year olds working with whichever acting manager that was on being the only real grown up there. I don’t know if I or my colleagues would have been comfortable saying something (we weren’t even allowed to tell people the store was closed and ask them to go to the checkout despite the fact we weren’t paid once it hit 9pm) and we had too few staff to go on a hunt to find the manager!

Not to mention county lines. Bloody awful drug

I will write what I always write on these threads - anybody who thinks cannabis is ok needs to educate themselves on county lines. When you can buy it legally in the supermarket I’ll change my stance.

Leave your shopping and shop elsewhere. How disgusting to allow a smoker in the shop - today it’s weed then it’ll be vapes and cigarettes.

I was in a shopping mall once and someone tried to walk in a shop with a cigarette on and was stopped immediately and told to leave the entire building and this was many years ago! The security was on it and it would have set off the smoke alarms too.

Yes it absolutely stinks. They must get immune. Can’t imagine how disgusting the house of a weed smoker would be - it’s bad enough outside.

People aren’t allowed to smoke in supermarkets or any other shop, that’s the whole point of the thread.
You’re reminiscing about years ago, when in actual fact people smoked everywhere, apart from supermarkets, food stores.F.Y.I there are plenty of young people who aren’t spoilt brats.