I was asked to leave B&Q, mortified

[chickenandapples]

I was approached by a member of staff who said that he just reviewed footage that 3 months ago, I was recorded not scanning an item at the self checkout and they believed it was intentional and just asked me (quite nicely and compassionately I might add) to leave.

Whoopsie! 😬

I note that they have no scales at B&Q self service which makes accidents easy.

I wasn't replying to the OP, I was replying to the poster who stated most people would steal, given half the chance.

Can you people not read or something? She said she was a teacher for 7 years and then left to do something paid better. I recommend this game to you specifically www.amazon.co.uk/Graffiti-Ent-Inc-GE-NDS-111-RRK-Kindergarten/dp/B002MT3CDO

I was in Waitrose a couple of years back, dashing for the bus. Paid at a staffed checkout as it's quicker, swiped my card and galloped for the bus stop. The next day, I realised that the payment (£75-worth) hadn't been taken. I phoned the 'Rose and they identified the till and asked me to come in to the shop. I protested (it's a trek to my nearest branch) but they were definite that they couldn't take the payment over the phone, which I thought odd. So, that afternoon I turned up at the information desk and announced myself. They kept me waiting a good ten minutes, but let me pay minus a £25 good will gesture.

Only later did I realise they must've had me on camera and been checking which person I was so that they could take me off their list of undesirables.

I'm SUCH an innocent.

It’s horrible isn’t it! I got an awful chilled feeling down my body when I realised. The item was worth 50p 😂I should have gone back in but I was so embarrased and I panicked and just drove off. It took about 2 months for me to stop feeling like eyes were on me when I entered that Tesco!
I have no idea how people knowingly steal. I’d be sweating so much and my knees would be bloody knocking together as I left the shop 😅

Which ones ?

Assume she’ll be a relatively junior consultant at PWC or some other corporate hell hole (at best) or it will be the title some marketing agency gives its managers.

They probably identified you the day it happened and one of the staff recognised you now and chucked you out. You’d be surprised what retail staff notice about people and how they behave. Do you remember what it was you stole didn’t pay for that day?

Or she is a prolific shoplifter. And a teacher in Bury St Edmunds earning a ‘peasant wage’ and doesn’t want any repercussions so she’s making up a story to cover herself. Maybe stress testing it out here.

Note the immediate acceptance that she’d stolen and the highlighting that they don’t use scales so it’s ’very easy to do.’

Indeed.

Probably those of us that aren't naive. You can't say people have mental health issues just because they don't believe a thread hasn't been made up😂 sounds like they have a screw loose themselves.

Possible too. I just don't buy the consultant part!

Trying to faildoxx her but also claiming everything she says here is a lie. Which one?

No it isn't. If you didn't know you did it, then it isn't stealing. It is possible to make mistakes. I walked out of a supermarket with my wire basket full of stuff and was halfway home before I realised. Very distracted, son was ill, financial problems, all the things that take your mind off the here and now.

I went straight back and paid for them. Had I stolen them before I did that? No, of course I hadn't. Theft requires intent. No intent = no crime.

That seems a long time to keep cctv footage

I'm a consultant as well. For a small fee I'll coach you to spend the whole day eating toast and watching Judge Judy.

I take PayPal.

🤣🤣

But now OP knows (if she didn't already) she has no intent in paying or returning the item

How come you can remember not paying for this item then if it was done by accident ? I suspect there is more to this as how do they remember you from 3 months ago ?
Have you done it before ??

Ha ha ! Yeah I guess you could put it that way lol

Course you did.

Mortified one minute, don't give a fuck the next. What's the point of this post exactly?

This thread is giving me LIFE 😆

Well, you did, or one of you did. I never suggested you scream at anyone like a fishwife though, and yet up that popped from nowhere!