3d ago

‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year

www.telegraph.co.uk

Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, a security firm has said.

John Nussbaum, director of service for retail at Kingdom Security, said his staff were seeing a “different sort of shoplifter now” as the cost of living “pushes people to something they’ve never done before”.

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If you see someone stealing food, no, you didn't.
- Depends on the food. Not going to be overly sympathetic to someone stealing caviar and steak.
  
  Folklore says steaks can easily be converted to cash and that's why they are more heavily guarded. Not so sure about caviar though.
  
  Where I live there are frequently people that come into pubs to sell things that were clearly stolen from the nearby Morrisons.
  I've found blocks of cheese to be an extremely frequently stolen item.
  Makes sense. Fairly easy to conceal, surprisingly expensive (depending on what you get, like £8-16 per kilo), doesn't usually come with security tags like steaks often do these days, and there's lots of potential buyers for cheese since it's used in a lot of things and it's bloody lovely.
  
  Ex-barstaff come assistant manager here from a local boozer from many, many years ago.
  We had a rule that the barstaff got first dibs on the deals if the smackheads came in with their goodies like you say (meat / coffee / Gillette triple bladers were big sellers....), and only then the customers came second. Crazy how even then your sweet old lady having her shandy top was in that queue 🙈
  
  I'm not stealing caviar and steak to eat myself. I personally don't care much to eat such. I may be giving that all to the homeless and starving but that's not why I'm stealing it. I would be stealing it to rape the wealthy's notion of value and with a major fucking load being done and do irreperable damage in the means while I'm there.
  
  Ah, so you are an anarchist.
  
  And you are a royal c...eh...never mind. You'll be in the act and deny the whole shebang. Like you have a character worth any respect in the subservient fashion of sucking on some guy's knuckles. No awareness that that that fashion is the ugliest facet of humanity still.
  
  it's not clear if parent poster's comment was an accusation with judgement, or just statement of fact
  
  Mostly a statement of fact, and due to that fact there isn't much point in debating the subject at hand.
  
  Yeah, it is. If they shared a thought in any real self respect, then they would have declared it. No, they make an observation and share zero thoughts of value because that have no thoughts of value. Theirs be fiddled entirely with that narcissistic style badger training that every heirarchy schools their slaves into know what words coo any thinkers out.
  Hence they began to insult anyone "stealing" as some kind of quality judgement of character because you can steal cheaper food and be all kinds of nice to your King.
  
  I read it as: he dislikes taking luxury items because it's taking more than your needs, you like it because it's a direct affront to capital. He said you're an anarchist (which I think is correct?), and you started name calling
  
  Taking something that exists in the hands of someone, who trashes more food than would feed the entire nation in its one life of a parasitic existence, is irrelevant to any notion of a rating upon how much your desperation for it stands, ever. The fact that you consider this "relativity" to be scalable to any meaingful value is more than an insult. It is declaring that this vampire, that trashes more food than your entire species survives off of, is validated in contribution, quality, value, meaning, or purpose other than parasitic. To be clear, this is fraudulent. They are parasitic and this is its only real form of existence and they are supporting that.
  That's hypocritical, but more like expressing hypocrisy for the vampire, and he don't even have a religion.
  
  Just bear in mind the distinct characteristics you are assigning to people who dont fully agree with your position. The world is more than binary, and up until the discussion split into capital over necessity, both you and your compatriot were aligned.
  
  I don't operate binary. Your limitation of your perspective of me is the source to such. I don't know what bars your awareness and I'm not here to help someone who is criticizing me for shit they are just in an entirely other place mentally while ascribing such upon me. That's more hypocrisy. You need a shrink and my mental objective is the other direction. Thanks, but no thanks.

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