| Getting stopped by security in shops 09:30 - Mar 11 with 23597 views | monytowbray |
Yesterday the security guard in M&S followed me as I left the shop, blocked me leaving the door and asked me to open my bag. All I had in there was two packs of fake chicken (hardly a shoplifter's menu item) and he demanded to see a receipt I didn't have as I used self-service and never get one as waste of paper. In the end I snatched them out his hand, told him to go f*ck himself and stormed past him with my items. The payment is on my bank statement and they can check their CCTV/transations on the self checkout.
Over reaction maybe and a bit rude, but I can't think for any reason the bloke decided to search me bar the fact I had come straight from the gym in Adidas trackies and a football training shirt and *could* have looked a bit like a chav. And that annoyed me. I literally walked in, went straight to the plant-based section, grabbed what I needed, went straight to the self-check out, paid and went to leave. I didn't linger around the booze or walk around looking shady.
Makes you wonder what else they profile shoplifters on. Am I in good mind to complain? I thought they had to catch you red handed or have strong reasons to suspect you've nicked something to actually stop you? I know my reaction wasn't too savoury but honestly I'm not having some jobsworth jumped-up tw@t in a power trip job accusing me of something I've not done nor even suggested from my actions I may have done.
Sorry bit of a rant. Part of me thought I should go in today in full smart work get up and complain to make a point but honestly CBA, but would take some free M&S food for the cr@p behaviour of their security. |  |
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| Getting stopped by security in shops on 18:31 - Mar 11 with 1000 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Getting stopped by security in shops on 15:41 - Mar 11 by Bluebell |
Perhaps that will teach everybody to keep receipts.
I assumed that when someone at a till asks you if you want a receipt it is to save paper but they usually print them off anyway and throw them into a bin if you say you don’t want them.
FWIW I always get a receipt. More often than not when I go shopping I am going to several shops that sell the same items so always make sure I have a receipt to prove the items in my bag have already been paid for.
On saying that I have never been stopped or accused of shoplifting but would have a receipt if questioned. |
Some shops don't do that now. Self service tills at the Coop don't print them off if you say no. I've often wondered how they police self-service tills and tend to feel guilty walking out. Made even worse by not having bags now, so I normally sctuttle past the security guard clutching my few purchases and trying to not look as shifty as Callis must look. |  |
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| Getting stopped by security in shops on 18:45 - Mar 11 with 975 views | jeera |
| Getting stopped by security in shops on 18:31 - Mar 11 by Swansea_Blue |
Some shops don't do that now. Self service tills at the Coop don't print them off if you say no. I've often wondered how they police self-service tills and tend to feel guilty walking out. Made even worse by not having bags now, so I normally sctuttle past the security guard clutching my few purchases and trying to not look as shifty as Callis must look. |
I think Bluebell might have missed the introduction of the self-checkout.
FAO Bluebell: Those things on the end closest to the door where us youngsters are accumulating? That's us paying for stuff too, but on our own, directly to a machine.
Bless her. |  |
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| Getting stopped by security in shops on 18:51 - Mar 11 with 961 views | vapour_trail |
I got stopped coming out of Sainsbury recently (not as posh as you, callis) because the chicken I purchased had a security tag in it. A fcking chicken. It was free range and raised on champagne and menthols, but all the same.
Like you I had no receipt as I always decline the option at the self service ( I prefer not to speak to people).
I politely accompanied the fella, probably doing his job on minimum wage back to the toll and watched him check my shop. Be kind. |  |
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| Getting stopped by security in shops on 18:55 - Mar 11 with 949 views | jas0999 |
I’d write to their CEO with proof that you paid. Tell them how disgusted you are and ask for a full investigation into the incident. |  | | |
| Getting stopped by security in shops on 18:57 - Mar 11 with 941 views | vapour_trail |
| Getting stopped by security in shops on 18:55 - Mar 11 by jas0999 |
I’d write to their CEO with proof that you paid. Tell them how disgusted you are and ask for a full investigation into the incident. |
I’d conclude our supermarkets have enough on their plate currently and let it go. | |
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| Getting stopped by security in shops on 22:17 - Mar 11 with 862 views | BryanPlug |
| Getting stopped by security in shops on 10:19 - Mar 11 by Doctor_Earman |
Good for you mate. Low-level security, bouncers, traffic wardens etc. are all a bunch of jumped up c***s. They deserve all the abuse that comes their way imo. |
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| Getting stopped by security in shops on 22:24 - Mar 11 with 849 views | BryanPlug |
| Getting stopped by security in shops on 11:35 - Mar 11 by WarkTheWarkITFC |
So to sum this up, you've admitted in the past for taking something you are supposed to pay for without paying and not getting caught.
But you are equally outraged that on another occasion when you took something that you had paid for, you were stopped by someone just doing their job, who may have suspected that you took something without paying?
You have a bit of a habit of twisting the entire world and everything that happens in it to your own little agenda. You're happy to take something for nothing but don't like someone suggesting that you might have taken something for nothing on a separate occasion?
The law is the law. Generally the laws are based around what the majority of society thinks is right and wrong - not what Callis thinks should be the case. See also - consumption of meat. |
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| Getting stopped by security in shops on 22:48 - Mar 11 with 820 views | monytowbray |
| Getting stopped by security in shops on 22:24 - Mar 11 by BryanPlug |
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To be fair that’s pretty spot on. | |
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