People who wander about a supermarket feeding their whiny kids things from packets they haven't paid for yet
I've complained about this before just to be told that legally 'well it's not theft if they haven't tried to leave the store without paying' This is correct.

However the evidence for this happening is that at least once every trip to our local Tesco (without even trying to look for it, while going about my usual shopping trip) there will be discarded half-empty packets shoved in shelf locations that are nothing to do with that product, empty or near empty bottles of pop left in gaps on shelves in the booze aisle (the last aisle in the shop, natch) and people firm in their belief that it's a victimless crime. It's not, it makes ME fucking LIVID.

What's worse is that although I also HAVE occasionally seen working class people hand over a packet full of crumbs at the checkout so that they can be scanned and they do indeed pay for the goods, the middle-class mums who choose to feed their kids pieces of fruit (so much better than those working class mums feeding their obese brats Wotsits and leaving them with a faux orange beard, they tell themselves) yet unless they get their kids weighed at the point of entry and then again at the checkout, explaining "the difference is Papaya" then there is even less chance that they're going to pay for that stuff. All probable justified safe in the knowledge that at least they are keeping the poor Zimbabwean fruit farmer in work. BASTARDS!
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 6 Apr 2011, 13:47, 3 replies)

Seriously, I hope more people steal from Tescos
they deserve it - here are some reasons why:

They are tax dodging bastards!!! Their off-shore accounts and UK tax avoidance pisses me off much more than a few people taking some grapes or eating a packet of crisps. They avoid paying millions in tax every year.

Also note that Tesco have ruined many small, local shopping areas by undercutting local businesses then putting up their prices when the competition have folded.

They also beat all the farmers down on price so they barely make a profit, rather than lowering their profit margins.

The petrol they sell is really poor quality and that can make your engine seize - as this man experienced a few years back: www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23387884-bailiffs-seize-alcohol-from-tesco-in-contaminated-fuel-twist.do

Dame Shirley Porter - Tesco heiress, sold off homes for votes, ran off with all the money, little of which has been recovered in a court case lasting many years.

SO GO FOR IT EVERYONE - steal from tescos as much as you like.
( camp freddy well, would you look at that!, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 14:32, closed)

On the plus side...
..."shrinkage" (retail code for stuff that gets nicked or lost or damaged like this) is, so far at least, something the big retailers have yet to find a way to charge the suppliers for.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 14:42, closed)

I would never do this...
.. because I would not want to give my kid the impression that (s)he was entitled to anything they had not yet paid for. Kids are surprisingly perceptive.

However, if you are giving kids strawberries from a box with a bar-code on it, it wont' make any difference to how much you pay that a few are missing.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 10:45, closed)