“Meet the shoplifters” Stacey Dooley

[AndyAudi]

A while back I started a poll on “who steals from self checkout” which had some strong feeling but basically confirmed PH demographic was similar to UK

Not sure if watching this full thing on BBC will get folk wound up or not, the trailer certainly has.

What I’m kinda surprised at is the comments on the Facebook page justifying…..

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15nyrmyeLX/?mibex...

ETA the original poll
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[Rhun]

Reminds me of any post about litter/fly-tipping on Facebook. Instead of blaming the individuals responsible many blame the council. Personal responsibility is hard I suppose.

[K87]

I was surprised at how many people justified the stealing not from the point of need or want but they were doing the world some kind of favour.

I suspect that most people steal just because they can get away with it.

There is little or no deterrent

[Arrivalist]

Rhun said:

Reminds me of any post about litter/fly-tipping on Facebook. Instead of blaming the individuals responsible many blame the council. Personal responsibility is hard I suppose.

Facebook is full of muppets with zero personal accountability. It’s why I only use it sparingly for local stuff now - it’s too painful to be constantly reminded of how many stupid idiots I share the planet with.

[davek_964]

The link is shocking really.

Yeah, of course I could work harder and pay for stuff but I value my free time. So working a small amount and stealing half the shopping works well for me......

Good for him. I hope one day he steals from a shop owner with a baseball bat

[AndyAudi]

There’s another guy on the actual show, wheels his trolley over to Stacey outside & elaborated on his master scheme.

Bring in loads of folded empty bags for life & hide stuff under the unused ones so he can claim a mistake. Usually buts a couple of bottles of wine & hides a couple, because wine is quite expensive but helps him relax (& he’s on benefits which doesn’t give him enough for his wine).
He was daft enough not to hide his identity so I think he’s going to find himself banned shortly!!

Eye opener for me is around half of young folk think it’s ok to nick from big faceless corporations because they make loads of money….

[Chauffard]

AndyAudi said:

Eye opener for me is around half of young folk think it’s ok to nick from big faceless corporations because they make loads of money….

Once you have this mindset it's a short leap to burgle a house because they have plenty money or steal a Range Rover because you'll never have one otherwise.

Dooley doesn't even attempt to be scathing or judgemental with these anti-social scrotes, she and the leftie bed wetters at the BBC just give them a platform.

Edited by Chauffard on Sunday 23 March 15:51

[Panamax]

Chauffard said:

Dooley doesn't even attempt to be scathing or judgemental with these anti-social scrotes, she and the leftie bed wetters at the BBC just give them a platform.

I hope I'm not alone in considering Dooley to be moron of monumental scale.

I'm surprised nobody has yet developed a facial recognition technology to weigh customers on the way in and weigh them on the way out. Combined with the self check-out tills which know the accurate weight of every item you'd soon identify the scrotes and set off a loud klaxon. But that leaves the bigger question - what would anybody do about it?

[Getragdogleg]

I'm not going to start stealing stuff but I feel that I'm not getting value for money from products anymore.

For example my preferred soap is now reduced in size but more money, the filling in biscuits has reduced to half what it was and a packet of crisps has 80% air, I could go on endlessly about low quality ingredients.

I feel like I'm getting tricked/robbed every time I go shopping.

[hidetheelephants]

Panamax said:

I hope I'm not alone in considering Dooley to be moron of monumental scale.

On the contrary; she used to make documentary/reportage things about Gaza and other worthy topics that didn't get watched very much, she moved to making click-bait topics like this and now she's minted.

[asfault]

Having worked in retail near 20 years being dragged down to head office for your inventory results or getting poor reviews because your shrink (theft unknown losses) is too high I can assure you it is not a victimless crime even if there is no violence involved.

[Mercury00]

I'll never give up on the belief that Stacey Dooley and her programmes are an elaborate spoof.

[davek_964]

Getragdogleg said:

I'm not going to start stealing stuff but I feel that I'm not getting value for money from products anymore.

For example my preferred soap is now reduced in size but more money, the filling in biscuits has reduced to half what it was and a packet of crisps has 80% air, I could go on endlessly about low quality ingredients.

I feel like I'm getting tricked/robbed every time I go shopping.

Stuff does seem to be ridiculously expensive now. Last week, I decided I wanted mini eggs - but it was over £4 for a bag that really wasn't that big. Although I'm sure I could save up, it really didn't seem worth the money.
We flew somewhere on Friday evening - and although I realise that an airport is a captive market and stuff is over priced - I was a bit shocked to see that a 1Kg back of M&Ms was over £20!

On the other hand - I didn't consider stealing in either case.......

[AndyAudi]

davek_964 said:

I was a bit shocked to see that a 1Kg back of M&Ms was over £20!

On the other hand - I didn't consider stealing in either case.......

FYI - the smaller bags as well as being easier to fit in your pocket/up your sleeve are often cheaper,

TV Snacks
I’m one of those people that uses the £/kg or Ltr on the shop labels to determine my purchase. (I don’t get a calculator out!)

M&M’s are often cheaper per KG in smaller bags (supermarket prices are about £13-18/Kg)

Cadbury’s chocolate is also cheapest per kg to buy in the pack of 9little bars than the big bars

I wonder if this is a subtle way of charging affluent customers who can afford the bigger portions more as they don’t notice.

[milesgiles]

AndyAudi said:

There’s another guy on the actual show, wheels his trolley over to Stacey outside & elaborated on his master scheme.

Bring in loads of folded empty bags for life & hide stuff under the unused ones so he can claim a mistake. Usually buts a couple of bottles of wine & hides a couple, because wine is quite expensive but helps him relax (& he’s on benefits which doesn’t give him enough for his wine).
He was daft enough not to hide his identity so I think he’s going to find himself banned shortly!!

Eye opener for me is around half of young folk think it’s ok to nick from big faceless corporations because they make loads of money….

Also known as the Madely heist method

[Red9zero]

I know of a couple of women who think it acceptable for their kids to eat and drink whatever they want off the shelves in the supermarket while they are shopping. Of course none of this is actually paid for, because "Everyone does it". No they don't.

[Peterpetrole]

Not going to watch because I don't need to get more angry, but was a bit shocked at work on Friday when 30 something "nice guy", proper job, was happily declaring what he's shoplifted recently, including fairly pricey homewares stuff. I told him it was peasant like behaviour.

[davek_964]

What surprised me about the bit I saw in the link was the way the shoplifter described it as a perfectly normal lifestyle choice. He was making the lifestyle choice to work part time - and therefore it was necessary to supplement his reduced income.

I've always felt I was a bit too young to retire - but I suppose if I could supplement my pension with shoplifting I could hand my notice in tomorrow.

[Sheets Tabuer]

I was in Waitrose the other day buying some of that excellent Bertinet sourdough, I held my card up to the self service checkout and was mortified as I started to walk away to hear "excuse me Sir, please wait until the sale has gone through"

We're obviously brought up differently.

[ntiz]

I have never got why security don't seem to do all that much?

Are they mainly there to break up fights or remove threatening people from the store?

I'm always quite shocked to see all the staff at my local Tesco wearing camera's in case of abuse. It's not just big shops either a friend owns a bakery and has put up a sign saying abuse won't be tolerated, after some one spat at their employee over the counter. This is all in a pretty quiet part of North Norfolk.