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But May told delegates: “This kind of scaremongering does nobody any good. It doesn't serve you, it doesn't serve the officers you represent and it doesn't service the public."
Was in B&M a couple of weeks back and situation as described here - chap casually loading his large rucksack with washing detergent/gel. He walks straight out, through 3 staff members standing at the tills who, whilst knowing what was going on, couldn't do anything about it.
Chatting to the lady at the till, it was suggested they have no CCTV or security as the company won't pay for them. A business decision to take the shoplifting hit in preference to the cost of (probably ineffective) security measures?
If it's this easy and Police aren't interested then it's no surprise they'll be many taking advantage. As with everything else, the costs will just fall to the consumer.
Even if you trebbled the number of police they still couldnt be everywhere. For an addict, getting arrested and eventually imprisoned isnt a huge deterrent (roof over your head etc) anyway. Shoplifting to make a couple of quid towards your next fix is a crime of misery. Buying obviously stolen goods to save a couple of quid off your shoppping bill is an act of misery. So long as that misery is there, the crime will be too.
We had one visit us a year after she nicked from us. Amazingly I recognised her so asked her to leave.
We found a load of stuff in a corner waiting to go into her bag.
I saw her go off to the chemists so I followed her in. Very loudly I told all the customers and staff that she was a shoplifter and to keep an eye on her.
I did that in every shop in the village that she went in. Not seen her since.
How long before we have to tap our cards before entering a shop – like pay at the pump petrol stations?
that or having your face scanned
in a bloke rocks up on his bike, legs it in to the shop and starts filling a bag up with steaks and meat
should have nicked his bike whilst he was in there..
No, just loosen the qr.
Who buys stolen steak?
Plenty folk who could otherwise afford it I'd guess. Not everyone has a decent moral compass and if they can "get one over on the ripoff supermarkets" then they absolutely will. Same folk that drive into the middle of nowhere in their Range Rovers and dump their shit rather than visit a tip or pay for a skip.
Then there are the folk that either used to be able to afford it or never could and are just angry and bitter with the world and don't care any more.
Plenty of folk are out there that will have a "bargain" as long as they don't need to get their own hands dirty.
Binners is right. Except about the decaff. Filthy beggar...
You’ve clearly never met any smackheads then, as there’s generally not much economic theory involved with total desperation
My Mrs worked with smackheads every day for nearly 17 years. She told me the more chaotic female ones would do blowjobs for a tenner, so I doubt they'll be asking much for a couple of steaks. 🙄
You try being morally outraged in Salford 6.
Flemish Weaver?
@MrSparkle - The Woolpack, a couple of hundred yards away. Both sadly no more. I'm not sure there are any pubs left round there at all, so who knows where the local shoplifters peddle their wares? The demise of the flat roofed drinking emporium continues apace.
The Woolpack was actually a decent boozer and famously the only pub in Salford not paying protection money to Paul Massey. The landlord kept his security in-house and even the local gangsters kept a wary distance, though not the shoplifters, obviously. Thieving oportunities are greatly reduced nowadays at the 'Shopping City' as half the place is boarded up. They probably have to go into town.
All these cheap steaks and blowjobs floating about and I'm sat on my own eating a Pot Noodle. There's something not right there.
When I worked in a well known wine merchants 20+ years ago we had people walk in and pick up cases of champagne and walk out casually.
Pfft, my sister worked at a carpet/furniture place for a while and they would happily come in and try and get a full size dinner table (and chairs!) out of the front doors on occasion!
I know someone that stole a shed from b&q.
That reminds me of a time confronting two guys nicking a coffee table from the hotel I worked at. They just said 'Oh, sorry, mate' and put it back. Like it was just normal behaviour!
Some lads I know rolled up a pub carpet and nicked that. That was just for bants though obvs.
A letter we had from a mum with her 3 daughters who stole a £50 bracelet while we were blowing up her £15 balloon.
Even though we gave the cops cctv of her putting it in her pocket ,they wouldn’t take it any further as we couldn’t prove that she left the shop with it.
Luckily we had a cop that could be bothered to go to the school ,identify the lady from her daughters and suggest she gave us some money.
A very strange almost pally card.
Classic.
And you reminded me of this...
Back in 2019 my 93 year old Nan and Grandad were broken into while they were in the house. They lived in a ramshackle 1920s bungalow on the A40 just down from the M25 - very close to where a police station used to be before it was shut down. Bastards stole her handbag and the likes.
Poor buggers were pretty shaken up by it... especially as my old school engineer Grandad had made his own bars for the windows, but they just walked in through the door. I don't think he ever thought people would do such a thing.
Anyway the police came and pretty much said they couldn't do anything about it - unsurprisingly. Then a WPC came back later that day with flowers and chocolates.
Desperate people do desperate things. I've been told by family members that when kids were in tatty manky clothes they would be given free school uniforms their parents would then sell the new uniforms. Same with iPads, every so often the police will be sent to someone's house / cash converters to collect the school iPads that were trying to be flogged.
When I worked on the Forth Bridge it was common knowledge of who you went to when you wanted something.