Is it pikey to eat food in a supermarket before you have paid for it.

[MK Shrimper]

No, I know that, I have several friends with diabetes. Most of them carry little packets of sugar with them - well, the women do as they usually have somewhere to keep them. That's what I meant about being prepared.

No, Mrs MK's son developed Type 1 at 13 and he's a fit, skinny dude who spends all his time street dancing.

 

[TrueBlue]

No, Mrs MK's son developed Type 1 at 13 and he's a fit, skinny dude who spends all his time street dancing.

Type 1?? really

 

[MK Shrimper]

Type 1?? really

Yes mate. Has to have regular insulin injections.

 

[BoyWonder2]

I think its wrong to be honest, although when I was a nipper, my mum often gave me sweets or drinks when going around the shop and paid for the "empties" at the end. That in my eyes is acceptable, mainly because thats how I was brought up.

 

[Dave of the Match]

So pikey. Seen many grown people eating ice creams, drinking stuff and that in supermarkets, more often than not THEY DONT EVEN PAY FOR IT.

 

[manor15]

I like the way no one has admitted to doing it themselves :P

 

[OldBlueLady]

I like the way no one has admitted to doing it themselves :P

I haven't though - honest! Closest I've come was buying a pack of fruit shoots or something and opening one as one of the kids was really thirsty. Is that as bad? :unsure:

 

[BrettieAngell]

I can remember my mum always giving me a packet of crisps on the way round in the supermarket and paying for it at the end, I guess that was just to shut me up though!

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I can remember my mum always giving me a packet of crisps on the way round in the supermarket and paying for it at the end, I guess that was just to shut me up though!

Didn't work back then either a mate??

;)

 

[Gremlin]

What I do dislike is people who decide they don't want an item that needs to be kept refrigerated (such as mince) and dump it on a shelf in the (say) Uncle Bens rice section.

Agreed. Lazy barstewards. And the same people probably moan about either the cost of the goods or that supermarkets end up having to throw so much stuff away.

 

[Uncle Leo]

When I am king these people will be first against the wall.

 

[Dave of the Match]

I like the way no one has admitted to doing it themselves :P

Probably because they haven't?

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

Thought you was type 2 mate?

Nope ive been a insulin whore for 12 years now and only yesterday came to the conculsion that im killing myself by being a twant and not taking care,running sugar levels os between 22 too 30 for 3 weeks and living like a zombie has to stop.Losing my knob,spunk and eyes on the way out should have warned me really.

 

[Mad Cyril]

It's not even really necessary to taste grapes - you can normally tell by the look and colour whether they're ok or not.

Or you could send a representative sample off to the lab to be 100% sure.

It's just common sense.

 

[ldnfatso]

i agree and think its wrong to eat or drink anything prior to checking out.

I disagree big guy, I when I get dragged around Tesco on a Saturday morning, I often head for the big bottles of lucozade energy first to sup on whilst wheeling the trolley around in a hung over stupa and no doubt will be doing the very same thing tomorrow.

Mothers with 2 to 3 young kids often give them juice or snacks and keep the packts for the check out, I see nothing wrong with that if you are planning on paying for the products

The trick is Dave, Don't get dragged down to Tesco on Saturday Morning. Sleep off the hangover and wait for Mrs AS to bring a bottle of Lucozade back for you!

 

[RobM]

She paid for it - where's the problem?

 

[Perth Bambi]

She paid for it - where's the problem?

The fact that at the time it was someone else's property?

 

[shrimperman]

I use to work at a supermarket as a student so this suject is a little closer to my heart. Legally, you are well within your right to eat what you want whilst on the premises, providing you pay for the product before leaving the building. This is the biggest problem for catching theives because the supermarkets can't do anything, even if they see someone physically put something up their shirt etc.

My personal belief is that, in this country most people see it culturally unacceptable to do so. Maybe culture is changing and what some people percieve to be acceptable, others do not. I guess my view might be a bit old fashinioned.

As for grazing, well where do you draw the line? How many grapes do you eat before its seen as stealing? If everyone decided to eat 'x' amount of grapes to test before buying then there won't be any left for other customers to purchase. I've seen customers pick up bags of grapes, pick off a hand full off the vine and put them in a plastic bag to eat whilst going round shopping. How do they suggest they are going pay for these grapes? Technically its stealing and its a theifs prerogative. How do you seperate people who are just testing, people who eat a whole bunch of grapes whilst shopping and people who eat a chocolate bar and put the wrapper back on the belt to pay for it?

 

[Nobby Snide]

its theft!

I have also witnessed people do this with thier kids, and the wrapper of the choclate bar fall 'accidently' to the bottom of the trolly where it would be hard to prove it was them who put it there.


if you do it, you are a thief...pikey or not

 

[Berrichonne shrimper]

its theft!

I have also witnessed people do this with thier kids, and the wrapper of the choclate bar fall 'accidently' to the bottom of the trolly where it would be hard to prove it was them who put it there.


if you do it, you are a thief...pikey or not

Oh the shame,the shame,the deep deep shame i now have for the nobby nobster thinks,nay knows im a thief,no ifs no buts im a thief,no grey areas im a thief,ho hum ive been called worse.