I was in Tesco on Saturday and as I walked past one of those wire baskets full of Tesco branded shopping bags (they have them at the end of the aisles) a woman walked past me going the other way. I was turning left into the aisle and she was coming out so we had to manoeuvre around each other IYKWIM.
She reached out across my trolley, i thought, to pick up a bag and instead she dropped a scrumpled plastic bag into the container - one of the ones they put your deli produce into. I looked at her and she was chewing some food (open-mouthed - nice) -which I strongly suspected she had eaten from the bag itself.
I almost could not believe it - she had an approx 13yo son with her and looked fairly smart - but concluded she must have ordered food from the deli counter, eaten it and chucked away the evidence. She saw me looking at her and blushed, which pretty much confirmed my suspicion that she had stolen and knew that I'd guessed it.
Ok, it's possible she'd picked up the bag from the floor, but who sees/picks up rubbish from Tesco's floor? And if she were so keen on picking up rubbish why would she have dumped it into a display container?
Is it just me who thinks that this is stealing? Isn't wandering round the supermarket eating (whether or not it's food you've not bought yet) a bit gross anyway, let alone if you're intending not to pay for what you consume?
I kept coming round corners and passing her and each time i gave her my 'disapproving look' but should I have spoken to someone about it? I guess if she had nicked the food presumably the CCTV would show her ordering from the deli counter and not producing any deli produce at the till, and dropping the rubbish?
I'm absolutely appalled particularly at the fact she had a child with her and apparently thinks it's ok to give an example at least of dropping litter wherever she feels like it and at most of stealing shamelessly.
Or AIBU? Is there another explanation?