To say that no-one is going to bother shopping a shoplifter for £1 on their Iceland loyalty card?

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Not even a real £1. It's madness.

Iceland shop a shoplifter for £1 - would you report someone? | The Leader

What kind of absolute bastard would you have to be to report someone for clubcard points. 😅

It’s cheap advertising for Iceland. They’re all over the news.

Is it really good advertising though - makes them sound dreadful!

And it’s only £1 on your club card - not even cash!

I’d do it for free, why shouldn’t they pay?

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A tiny corner shop? Maybe. A giant supermarket like Iceland? You know the old saying, if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn’t. Especially if it’s baby formula or baby-related.

If Greggs did this then they would quickly go bankrupt.

As someone who supports struggling families I’d want to know if someone was shoplifting formula . . I’d want to make sure they were getting all the help they needed. I’m against them being prosecuted but being identified I’d have no problem with.

in the past I’ve bought formula for struggling families….not often but it’s happened. There’s help out there now. It can’t be accessed if nobody knows though.

in many cases shoplifting isn’t done by struggling families though…it’s people taking the piss.

@LoisGriffinskitchenI guess that presumes the supermarket managers would wish to identify the shoplifters on the basis of helping them get the support they need, rather than criminalising them.

I have reported shoplifters in Asda, the staff couldn't care less. I worked in retail and we were told the most we could do was tell shoplifters to put stuff back which I did being a not very mobile older lady, the lads on the other hand were quite happy to chase them and get the stuff back, if a punch got through away from the cameras all the better.
We had quite a good relationship with the police but we needed so many instances before they would act.

If Iceland were prepared to give more than £! people might be interested in helping. The trouble is the person might have a knife or other weapon. No one is going to take any risks for £1

baby formula is one of the most stolen items. Not just by struggling families.

I do think it’s interesting publicity. Possibly if you are skint you can spend the day wandering the aisles and earn a few quid. I’ve only ever told on someone who was stealing booze from a small corner store.

Cheapskates. Saw this on the news and thought: think people will do that, have to hang around, fill in forms, put themselves at risk, for a lousy pound? If someone was that desperate they'd be doing the shoplifting.

Actually, a lot of shoplifting is done not by “the mum who is struggling to afford baby formula” - a lot of it is done on a massive scale. Where do you draw the line? Is robbing a bank or committing insurance fraud ok? How about those people who order clothes, wear them and then return them - is that ok? It’s a bit of a slippery slope…

Well, I wouldn't report it for reward, but thieves cost the rest of us more.

Ive been maliciously accused of shoplifting. By a woman in a well known news store currently undergoing a name change. This was last month This was followed by someone posting false accusations about me on social media Ive reported it to the police under the Malicious Communications Act AND IVE BEEN GIVEN A CRIME NUMBER It escalated yesterday where a man ive never met before "confronted" me in another shop (supermarket corner shop) calling me a shoplifter and repeating the same shit from last month. Ive updated the police as its harassment. Ive never shoplifted in my life. Ive got piles and piles of carrier bags from this news store and have spent a lot of money there since my teens (im now in my fifties) Ive been consulting solicitors today.

Snitches get stitches 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve reported the chap stuffing steaks down his trousers and the lady in the huge coat stuffing bottles of wine in its pockets.

The brazen chap who was stood at the entry only doors waiting for someone to open them so he could walk out arms full of those crates of cans was comical as they just sent the manager out the exit and to the entrance to face him.

A packet of nappies and A tub of formula. I didn’t see anything.

It isn't so much to give a pound to the person reporting it, but more to make those doing the shoplifting think that other people are probably watching and may well challenge them. At the end of the day, everyone should care about this. It isn't people stealing baby formula. It's people who this for a living, flogging what they've sold in pubs etc. This is a major issue on high streets. It is pushing up the cost of goods for all of us and it it putting small companies out of business.

Within a week of me opening a high street shop I was hit by a shoplifter. A middle aged man, well dressed. He came back a week and a half later to try again. A few weeks after that I was hit again, by a well presented chatty couple. He spent money, she did not pay for her goods 🤬

Of course not, especially as most of them are crackheads.

not worth the hassle

one of the stupidest sayings ever. I can't believe people who trot this out are actually naive enough to believe someone nicking baby-related stuff is actually doing it because they have a starving child at home they cannot feed any other way (any GP would/could refer for free formula if they were contacted, let alone charity options) and not because it has a good black market resale value.

I wrestled a man shop lifting in Tesco local, the guy who worked there told me to just let him go as they could do anything anyway!

What are they going to do if they’re told? Most retail staff aren’t trained to apprehend thieves anyway.