Putting items in your calico bag before you've paid for them?

[Sue]

The calico bags I have fold up really small - they are just cloth. You could easily put them in a handbag or a pocket.

I thought that was the whole point of them? You have them handy and don't need to buy carrier bags at the till.

Unless they already have things in them, I really can't see how they could be difficult to carry?

[Passiflora]

My thoughts too Sue.

I wouldn't have the audacity to pop down to the DKH Sainsburys and start filling up my recycleable bag (and I have lots of them) without being approached by somebody in authority.

Trouble is they seem very complacent and just seem to wave people by if the alarm goes off etc.

The DKH Sainsburys must have lost thousands of pounds over the Christmas and New Year period.

[Celt]

?I was in the Co-Op on Lordship Lane about 12noon today when I saw a middle class-looking main [greying cropped hair, fashionably dressed, with a calico fabric bag] putting items from the reduced cold storage cabinet directly into his bag.?

This was definitely not Tony Derfries.

People trying car doors every night in ED (you should avail yourself of Kafka?s ?The Trial?), with a broken boiler and speeding on Barry Road with the 1950s BT line problem?

[edcam]

They're called tote bags by the way.

[Gloves]

edcam Wrote:

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> They're called tote bags by the way.

I hear the drums echoing tonight, but she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation, she's coming in, 12:30 flight

[nxjen]

Tote bags can be made of other materials, like leather for example. Perhaps a leather bag wouldn?t have caused such offence.

[DuncanW]

Thank you so much, BusyRabbit - this is a s good as the EDF gets!

I learnt two new words also, calico and prolix

[DuncanW]

Was this the offender?

[JohnL]

DuncanW Wrote:

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> Was this the offender?

he doesn't look very hard for a pirate.

[Willard]

Busyrabbit - I sometimes put shopping directly into my bag if I'm only grabbing a few things before paying. I also sometimes put them in my crash helmet as others have mentioned here. I also (shock horror) eat a packet of crisps as I shop if I'm starving and then put the empty packet on the belt for the cashier to scan. Been doing it for years, never been challenged by a member of staff at any supermarket. I only wish I'd been challenged by you. Think the man in question was incredibly polite to just brush you off.

[savvygirl]

This is the correct procedure when shopping, unless you're royalty and the rules don't apply: Enter store, pick up shopping basket/trolley, put items in shopping basket/trolley, take to check out, empty shopping basket/trolley, pay for items, put in own personal shopping bag (calico or otherwise) and depart store.

[Willard]

Savvy by name, savvy by nature.

[savvygirl]

I can't help it - I positively frighten myself sometimes I'm that sensible!

[Robert Poste's Child]

In some supermarkets like Waitrose you can scan as you go. Then it's OK to put them in the bag.

[Mick Mac]

savvygirl Wrote:

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> This is the correct procedure when shopping,

> unless you're royalty and the rules don't apply:

> Enter store, pick up shopping basket/trolley, put

> items in shopping basket/trolley, take to check

> out, empty shopping basket/trolley, pay for items,

> put in own personal shopping bag (calico or

> otherwise) and depart store.

Or enter store, pick up items, pay for them, exit. Dont steal anything.

[DulwichFox]

If you are not driving then place your bags in shopping trolley

put items in your own bags so you know you can carry them.

Go to checkout and place items on belt as usual and put back in you bags when checked out.

DulwichFox

[edcam]

That sounds like a right palaver Dulwich Fox.

[d.b]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> savvygirl Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > This is the correct procedure when shopping,

> > unless you're royalty and the rules don't apply:

>

> > Enter store, pick up shopping basket/trolley,

> put

> > items in shopping basket/trolley, take to check

> > out, empty shopping basket/trolley, pay for

> items,

> > put in own personal shopping bag (calico or

> > otherwise) and depart store.

>

> Or enter store, pick up items, pay for them, exit.

> Dont steal anything.

You missed a critical step: don't harass the other shoppers. Something OP should bear in mind.

[ponderwoman]

I have always assumed that the shop baskets and trolleys were provided for the convenience of the customer with the added calculated bonus for the shop that with a lot of space to comfortably fill, it will probably also increase the shops sales. I have never considered them as a directive for my behaviour.

I find the shop baskets particularly awkward to use and have always collected my less than weekly purchases in my own bag/hat/scarf/jumper folded into a pouch etc. It had never occured to me that anyone would have reason to be bothered by this and I would be very surprised to have been challenged for, in essence, being a good customer.

I am aware we are all paying a levy added to the price of goods to cover shoplifting. People are either going to be honest or not. I would have thought it was fairly obvious which camp anyone was in and I assume the shops will have their own protocol of how they deal with this. Anyone trying to tell me how to perform to their satisfaction the process of shopping, would give me great concern for their wellbeing.

[edcam]

I like this post hugely.

ponderwoman Wrote:

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> I have always assumed that the shop baskets and

> trolleys were provided for the convenience of the

> customer with the added calculated bonus for the

> shop that with a lot of space to comfortably fill,

> it will probably also increase the shops sales. I

> have never considered them as a directive for my

> behaviour.

>

>

> I find the shop baskets particularly awkward to

> use and have always collected my less than weekly

> purchases in my own bag/hat/scarf/jumper folded

> into a pouch etc. It had never occured to me that

> anyone would have reason to be bothered by this

> and I would be very surprised to have been

> challenged for, in essence, being a good

> customer.

>

>

> I am aware we are all paying a levy added to the

> price of goods to cover shoplifting. People are

> either going to be honest or not. I would have

> thought it was fairly obvious which camp anyone

> was in and I assume the shops will have their own

> protocol of how they deal with this. Anyone trying

> to tell me how to perform to their satisfaction

> the process of shopping, would give me great

> concern for their wellbeing.

[hellosailor]

Quite. The OP?s behaviour was beyond inappropriate. An adult going up to another grown adult and saying this is absolutely extraordinary. I don?t believe they thought there was a chance they were shop lifting from what they?ve written, they sound like a self important control freak with no concept of behavioural boundaries or what is or isn?t their business. Even thinking about it has really cheesed me off so I can only imagine how the man going about his shopping felt. Well done him for remaining calm and polite, I suspect if the OP behaved like this with a lot of people they would have had quite a different response.

[sweetgirl]

Just saying..... I do love this forum, it's better than the papers & the media!

[alice]

Like ticket inspectors and plainclothed police officers; shoplifters look just like us. They are us.

[ponderwoman]

Speak for yourself!

[rendelharris]

hellosailor Wrote:

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> Quite. The OP?s behaviour was beyond

> inappropriate. An adult going up to another grown

> adult and saying this is absolutely extraordinary.

> I don?t believe they thought there was a chance

> they were shop lifting from what they?ve written,

> they sound like a self important control freak

> with no concept of behavioural boundaries or what

> is or isn?t their business. Even thinking about it

> has really cheesed me off so I can only imagine

> how the man going about his shopping felt. Well

> done him for remaining calm and polite, I suspect

> if the OP behaved like this with a lot of people

> they would have had quite a different response.

That nails it very nicely, I'd say.