Taking from the food bank trolleys in the supermarket cf behaviour or sheer desperation?

[Catcooper25uk]

So my partner has a friend who is a security guard at a supermarket and my partner was telling him how I have been donating little bits here and there into the trolleys for the food banks whenever ive been going shopping. Anyway he told my partner that people regularly try to take the donated things out of the trolleys to basically steal. Have we now as a society got so desperate with cost of living that people are now having to basically steal from charities? Or is this really CF behaviour. Whats your take on it?

you'd have to be pretty desparate to steal from a foodbank no?

It’s CF behaviour. Some people will steal anything that isn’t nailed down, whether they actually want it or not.

Yeah I agree.
People can be ridiculous. Very few thieves in my experience are the actually desperate ones.

I have heard of a guy doing this as he didn't understand (apparently) and thought people donated for other people to take....🤣

One of our local supermarkets donates to the food bank one evening a week. When the volunteer went to collect it the staff had given it to someone else (who claimed to be the volunteer).

I dont know how I feel about it to be honest on 1 hand I think you must be pretty desperate to do something like this but then on the other hand I have been really skint and desperate at 1 point in my life but then I never resorted to stealing and ive literally had to use food banks myself once in my life. This is why now im in a more fortunate situation in life I like to help out as much as I can whenever I go in now whether that be a pack of nappies or a couple of tins of something I dont like to think of anyone struggling or any kids going without hence why I dont know how I feel about it.

I think this is the sort of scenario where people want to think everyone is like them, i.e, you’d have to be desperate to take food from a food bank… only life isn’t actually like that and some people really are just that selfish and grab anything that isn’t locked down.

Regardless of why people do it I'm still going to donate as and when I can as I loke to think that they are getting to the right people in the end. My partners mate did tell him that the people that do this get stopped so they dont actually get away with it.

I really think we need to focus on the fact that the majority of people are not thieves but there is a minority of people who see petty thieving as a way of life. A right if you will and they are audacious and can talk themselves out of most situations if challenged.