Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

And where do you buy your food? Would you be ok with people shoplifting from there?

There was an interview on R4 about the bank and Farage.
It seems that a few years ago the Gov, I think Cameron’s introduced guidelines on inclusivity to companies in the U.K. so rather than making money your aim is to be seen to be inclusive and kind and must produce evidence of this.
Similarly the Gov are all about reducing sentences for non violent crimes, not punishing young people etc But being hard on racism and phones.
So this is where we are.Tescos hand are tied (can’t punish the shoplifters) the police hands are tied -no point spending hours building a prosecution as slapped hand is the result. So we have to live with it - perhaps a mass writing to MPs might make them look at legislation again.

Phobes not phones

Yes, I do think we are heading towards anarchy unless we do something to stop the wealth divide getting wider and people feeling a sense of injustice so that they are able to kids themselves that what they are doing is justified and reasonable

I feel like this comment is just such a fucking cop out.

So much of this entitlement is down to material acquisition and is being exacerbated by the relentless spending on kids. Stop constantly buying your kids stuff!!! Honest to god you are thinking back to simpler times when times genuinely were simpler.

The main spend was housing and food. Now it’s Apple and Nike and fuck knows what the latest thing is as I’ve zoned out. Once we made capitalism God then morality went out the window. Stop blaming everything thing else and look what’s happening in your own family first. Then your community and then your country. You can always make personal changes to help society. It’s so much easier to blame everyone else and do absolutely nothing yourself.

And of course the problem is that if all shoplifters were caught and sentenced to a spell in prison then where do they all go and who is paying for that?

As for all the ‘Tesco are bastards, good on them’ types, remember that when it’s your car that’s nicked or your house that is burgled.

Agreed.

It used to happen in a small town I lived in.

95% of the crime was due to the actions of about a dozen individuals who were in and out of jail (fines hadn't worked) but unfortunately they weren't all 'banged up' at the same time.

Then someone dropped a blooper and 'did' a house belonging to someone's granny. Some other gang members jumped him down an alley and beat him to a pulp.

A big trial ensued resulting in several GBH convictions, substantial sentences, and a significant drop in the crime rate.

I suspect the Police are quite aware who these yobs are. They are probably waiting for them to 'up their game' and then they'll come down hard.

I read on BBC that Co-Op said some areas are becoming no-go areas for shops. They are losing too much to keep some branches open.

This is the orders that the police have had from the cps. It costs too much money to arrest and prosecute them only for them to be given a slap on the hand.

Nah…. I may have sympathy for you (even though I don’t know you from Adam), but I have little sympathy for a very large corporation that is destroying small businesses while paying peanuts to its staff, putting them in danger, the meanwhile it’s top executive are massively rich.

Sorry but your “one size fits all” approach doesn’t cut it for me.

I saw two big, scary looking men in my local small Co Op open a massive holdall and scoop every bit of meat off the chiller shelf into it. I immediately went into the next aisle and told a member of staff. They said the security guard knocked off at 6pm and as he was on mimimum wage, he wasn't going to tackle them.

I was absolutely gobsmacked.

Three days later I was opening my front door when a gaunt, jerky young man came up and asked me if I liked steak. I said I didn't, I preferred burgers, and he said "We have some of those as well." I asked where they came from and he said "the Co Op, but they are all in my mate's freezer so they have not gone off."

The magic number is California is $900. I am from the SF Bay Area and had family visiting me last week. They said anything totalling under $900 isn’t a crime. Some criminals take a calculator with them, adding up as they steal.

Of course this is America, so there’s every possibility the owner of the shop will come beat the shit out of you with a baseball bat. I don’t know if that’s a crime.

I don’t have any sympathy for Tesco but do you honestly think that these people are sitting at home discussing the merits of the Tesco corporation before robbing it? No. They would do the exact same if it was a small independent off licence.

Quite. They're hardly Robin Hood and his Merrie Men.

I think that part of the problem is that it's no longer taboo for people to steal from shops and it's very easy for them to sell their obviously stolen goods on. If people would stop buying off shop lifters and ostracised them for stealing then it would reduce the incentive to do so. At the moment stealing = profit + no repressions

Our prisons are full so judges have to take that into consideration

Can you kindly cite your sources for the assertion that criminals are taking calculators with them to stay under a $900 threshold? Thanks.

Not true. Was given a values award for tackling a shoplifter! Young and stupid. Why the f was I risking needles, knives etc for little above minimum wage?

hate to be ‘that’ person, but go on twitter and say women don’t have a penis and suddenly plod will find the resources.

A small family run off license operates very differently, anyone who has stolen or behaved badly is not allowed in anymore, any theft has the guy behind the till tackling the thief down. While you may get away with stealing from the local Tesco not so much from your Indian family run off license store in your street. Of course I’m talking from personal experience, you may have a different one.

That’s the thing you want to focus on? Why the importance of that particular comment?

Fine. You carry on justifying theft however it suits you. I just hope your haven’t brought up children with those morals.

When those in power have no need to hide their lawbreaking and contempt for the law, it's not really hard to see how it trickles down.

So shoplifters look at Boris Johnson and decide to rip off Tesco? Unlikely.

No fucks to give about the fact that it is indicative of the increasingly lawless society we live in?

No fucks to give about the poor staff who have to work in an environment where this happens?

No fucks to give about the knock-on effect on prices?

No fucks to give about the fact that people allowed to get away with this sort of theft will feel emboldened and might be trying your front door to see if they can walk in and take something?
No fucks to give about the fact that the men stealing large quantities of alcohol which they may not otherwise be able to afford will probably get blind drunk and engage in more extreme anti-social behaviour/violence etc?