Shoplifting food

[Greengod]

Was in co op today and saw a man take lots of meat packs and walk straight out the door, I told a co op staff member and they said oh Did not seem too bothered and said they don't ever have any security working there

Is it now ok to steal food, maybe things have got so bad for people that they have to

[Tom Micklewright]

I think he has heard the Dulwich vegans are starting our Meat Free Days again and is getting prepared.

If you would like to try a meat free day, which reduces your carbon footprint, land, energy and water use, then why not tweet me at @DulwichVeganSoc and I'll send you some meat free ideas!

Tom

[ratty]

Not uncommon. People have to eat.

[castleofillusion]

I would have said the same thing. From what I remember if my says working at a Co-op, if there's no security you need two witnesses and even then, if you challenge them and they bolt for the door, what are you going to do? Plus I want paid enough to care about that. If there's no security then so be it. Even security guards have limited powers and it's such a common occurrence. It is frustrating though, I agree.

[PeckhamRose]

"maybe things have got so bad for people that they have to" Things have always been bad for many people. What planet have you been living on. Years ago we sent people to Australia for nicking bread. In some countries they cut folks hands off.

Sorry but that was a bit of a naive statement.

[maxxi]

The security the Co-op used to employ were there to protect the staff rather than nick shoplifters. Now they have been dispensed with it's not surprising no staff member wants to chase after a mass beef tea-leaf (why does that suddenly sound delicious?).

[ED2013]

Seems like nobody thinks it is that bad, cant believe I've been wasting money paying for stuff at co op. no security, surprised more people are not at it

[KalamityKel]

I wouldn't recommend trying it though... be sods law afterall you'd b caught and all that

[ED2013]

True

[BrandNewGuy]

Greengod Wrote:

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> Is it now ok to steal food, maybe things have got

> so bad for people that they have to

No and no it hasn't.

[edcam]

I'm going to wait til there's an M&S. Much classier shoplifting to be had there.

[DulwichFox]

So one person goes into a shop and helps them self and it is passed off as one of those things. ??

Then surely it's ok for anyone to walk into a shop and help them self.

So 20 people walk into a shop and help them self. and it constitutes a Riot. Looting

People have short memories.

Fox

[Gerryw80]

Depends on a person's inner conscience whether a person has self-guilt to commit such an unlawfull act and consider it wrong or not

[woodrot]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> Greengod Wrote:

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> > Is it now ok to steal food, maybe things have

> got

> > so bad for people that they have to

>

> No and no it hasn't.

No and yes it has

[woodrot]

Tom Micklewright Wrote:

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> I think he has heard the Dulwich vegans are

> starting our Meat Free Days again and is getting

> prepared.

>

> If you would like to try a meat free day, which

> reduces your carbon footprint, land, energy and

> water use, then why not tweet me at

> @DulwichVeganSoc and I'll send you some meat free

> ideas!

>

> Tom

would you steal broccoli and mung beans from the co-op if you were skint Tom ?

[shelly2012]

I c people in the little sainb near the plough walk in almost every day a take somethink . One man goes in and fills his bag up with yogurts . The staff do nothink .

[MrBen]

I've seen similar several times and also in the co-op with meat. One time a lady walked in, picked up 3 joints of topside and just walked out. And nobody batted an eyelid.

The new Co-op sucks anyway - those plastic wooden floorboards that are meant to look "organic" and "your local Dulwich store" pretenses of neighborhood intimacy from a national chain make me want to vomit. It's bigger, yet strangely much harder to find anything.

[Annette Curtain]

shelly2012 Wrote:

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> I c people in the little sainb near the plough

> walk in almost every day a take somethink . One

> man goes in and fills his bag up with yogurts .

> The staff do nothink .

Well, that's given me somethink to thing about

[Alex K]

Oh, for Heaven's sake. The shoplifter didn't take packets of meat because he was hungry. He took them to flog at the nearest pub. CASH = ACCESS TO DRUGS (including tobacco / alcohol).

[dulwichgirl2]

Annette, likink it.

Alex, well exactly.

That Co op is awful cold, don't you think?

[KidKruger]

Mr Ben: "It's bigger, yet strangely much harder to find anything.

Yes I've noticed this, harder to find because of new layout, but also harder to find because I'm convinced they sell less products.

[Townleygreen]

Kid, it's "fewer" not less products.

Give me the pedantry award.

[BrandNewGuy]

woodrot Wrote:

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> > > Is it now ok to steal food, maybe things have

> > got

> > > so bad for people that they have to

> >

> > No and no it hasn't.

>

>

> No and yes it has

Show me why people have to steal food because it's "got so bad".

[*Bob*]

Apparently there are a number of people in London who sleep under a pile of cardboard in shop doorways.

I don't notice them myself of course - I'm too busy downloading new iPhone apps.

[BrandNewGuy]

People have been sleeping under cardbpoard boxes for a long while, alas - long before it's "got so bad".