Stealing from charity shops. That’s an interesting low.
BobMonkhaus on
What type of person shoplifts from a charity shop? That’s like robbing a food bank.
Edit: Can’t wait for the “actually the seniors managers are all rich” argument. It’s a bloody charity shop.
AcademicIncrease8080 on
How about an introduction of zero-tolerance to shoplifting, something like for every £10 of goods stolen is 1 hour of community service, with fast-tracked courts to get people picking litter and painting fences etc within days of being caught?
There needs to be clear and consistent punishment for this sort of crime.
pies1123 on
It’s very strange that if there was this long time where our laws and enforcement generally worked for petty crimes and somehow now don’t.
I think it’s probably likely that society has changed and we need to work on bringing back the social structures that kept crime fairly low. Just seems like punishment was never the deterrence in the first place.
Practical-Purchase-9 on
People steal from charity shops, I worked in an Oxfam bookshop for a year or so and there were a couple people banned for theft. There was this one guy who brought back a VHS saying it was damaged, so manager looked inside and the tape was crumpled so he offered him choose a replacement. Guy came back the next week, same problem, and it was only ‘our’ tapes not his VCR. Yeah, he was damaging the tapes and looking for a free replacement for a tape only costing £2.
We would take £50-80 most days, more than that was unusual. It wasn’t like the shop was raking it in.
MinervaMadison on
As someone that managed a shop in a busy town, I can relate. There was simply no deterrent. You report a theft to the police who try and dissuade you from pressing charges as it’s a waste of resources for the weak punishment. Security guards in the shopping centre had no authority to stop suspects unless witnessing the crime themselves. They were also not allowed to run or chase due to health and safety. Repeat offenders would be on the prowl almost daily (even after being arrested days prior) and our only saving grace was a community CCTV radio which would alert shops of known persons. To rub salt in the wound, some shop companies punish the shop workers if stock is down by reducing hours allowances for staff to make up for the losses even though they are insured. I need to get out of retail 😭
AlreadyVapedBud on
> Nottinghamshire Police said a number of measures had been implemented to tackle the problem, including banning offenders from certain areas.
Let’s hope these criminals adhere to the ban.
seoras91 on
>including banning offenders from certain areas.
I wonder if this approach works or if it’s just a waste of time. Can’t see it being that effective personally.
TheNathanNS on
Theft is pretty much legalized in this country, there are no deterrents for doing so.
Upbeat-Bench877 on
well they know they can’t be sent to prison because they’re full of people writing stuff on twitter
tigerjed on
But this sub told me a year or so ago. If I saw someone shoplifting that I didn’t, they were just trying to feed their starving family.
Mr_Flibbles_ESQ on
I used to volunteer in a Charity shop.
Some people would try and confuse people by saying they’d give you £20 when they’d only given you £5 – I worked the till a couple of times and it happened multiple times.
“I gave you £20”
I used to die a little inside because I’d have to stand there and check, prove them wrong, all the while they where stood there knowing full well they didn’t actually give me £20.
The thing is that most of the time we had older volunteers working on the check out tills, you can bet they did get away with this kind of thing more than once.
javarouleur on
I have connections to a charity shop and may have mentioned this before… but I know of people who’ve wangled their way into “volunteering” as staff so they can nick stuff and sell it themselves. It’s very disheartening at times.
ZheeZheee on
I volunteered at a Cat’s Protection for a couple of weeks a few summers ago, and whilst I was sorting out some clothes on the shop floor, my Google Pixel 6 phone got stolen from the back room (door was open and the store didn’t have CCTV, which was surprising being that it was more a boutique with some really expensive dresses etc).
I suspected it was a little family and a little kid kept looking back at me, I didn’t think anything of it at the time, and then when I went out back, I was panicking being like where the f*** is my phone?! I was in shock, I was crying. I didn’t come back the next day.
I called 101, that went nowhere, and especially because there was no CCTV. I also didn’t insure the phone and now wish I did, like £600/700 down the drain that was and only just finished paying it off this year, as it was a new phone on contract then.
I was actually working in retail at the time and I got used to and desensitized to shoplifting, even in the MIND shop I was already volunteering at for a few months then, and a part of me was a bit more disgusted by what I witnessed sometimes.
Like I don’t give a f*** if you steal from a corporation, but stealing from a charity, that is a new low; was thinking how desperate people are now that these kinds of shops are targeted.
Overall, I feel for the girl, it’s not worth it. I’m glad I don’t work in retail and deal with these degenerates anymore. That was in my paying job though, I did enjoy volunteering at a shop, but after Cat’s Protection, I don’t want to risk reliving that event again somewhere else.
Clbull on
How much of a throbbing cock do you have to be to shoplift from a *charity shop*?
barcap on
> Vivienne McCormick, a 25-year-old sales assistant at the British Heart Foundation in Nottingham, said she once had a thief swearing and threatening her.
>Other shopkeepers across Nottinghamshire say they are frustrated, as figures show incidents of shoplifting across the county have almost doubled in the past eight years.
Why not trial those perpetrators and if found guilty just have a leg tag for six to twelve months; and have shops optionally purchase a tagger doorbell when a person with a tag enters the shop, it will chime very noisily. Everyone will be aware of potential danger and have security to escort them out.
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Stealing from charity shops. That’s an interesting low.
What type of person shoplifts from a charity shop? That’s like robbing a food bank.
Edit: Can’t wait for the “actually the seniors managers are all rich” argument. It’s a bloody charity shop.
How about an introduction of zero-tolerance to shoplifting, something like for every £10 of goods stolen is 1 hour of community service, with fast-tracked courts to get people picking litter and painting fences etc within days of being caught?
There needs to be clear and consistent punishment for this sort of crime.
It’s very strange that if there was this long time where our laws and enforcement generally worked for petty crimes and somehow now don’t.
I think it’s probably likely that society has changed and we need to work on bringing back the social structures that kept crime fairly low. Just seems like punishment was never the deterrence in the first place.
People steal from charity shops, I worked in an Oxfam bookshop for a year or so and there were a couple people banned for theft. There was this one guy who brought back a VHS saying it was damaged, so manager looked inside and the tape was crumpled so he offered him choose a replacement. Guy came back the next week, same problem, and it was only ‘our’ tapes not his VCR. Yeah, he was damaging the tapes and looking for a free replacement for a tape only costing £2.
We would take £50-80 most days, more than that was unusual. It wasn’t like the shop was raking it in.
As someone that managed a shop in a busy town, I can relate. There was simply no deterrent. You report a theft to the police who try and dissuade you from pressing charges as it’s a waste of resources for the weak punishment. Security guards in the shopping centre had no authority to stop suspects unless witnessing the crime themselves. They were also not allowed to run or chase due to health and safety. Repeat offenders would be on the prowl almost daily (even after being arrested days prior) and our only saving grace was a community CCTV radio which would alert shops of known persons. To rub salt in the wound, some shop companies punish the shop workers if stock is down by reducing hours allowances for staff to make up for the losses even though they are insured. I need to get out of retail 😭
> Nottinghamshire Police said a number of measures had been implemented to tackle the problem, including banning offenders from certain areas.
Let’s hope these criminals adhere to the ban.
>including banning offenders from certain areas.
I wonder if this approach works or if it’s just a waste of time. Can’t see it being that effective personally.
Theft is pretty much legalized in this country, there are no deterrents for doing so.
well they know they can’t be sent to prison because they’re full of people writing stuff on twitter
But this sub told me a year or so ago. If I saw someone shoplifting that I didn’t, they were just trying to feed their starving family.
I used to volunteer in a Charity shop.
Some people would try and confuse people by saying they’d give you £20 when they’d only given you £5 – I worked the till a couple of times and it happened multiple times.
“I gave you £20”
I used to die a little inside because I’d have to stand there and check, prove them wrong, all the while they where stood there knowing full well they didn’t actually give me £20.
The thing is that most of the time we had older volunteers working on the check out tills, you can bet they did get away with this kind of thing more than once.
I have connections to a charity shop and may have mentioned this before… but I know of people who’ve wangled their way into “volunteering” as staff so they can nick stuff and sell it themselves. It’s very disheartening at times.
I volunteered at a Cat’s Protection for a couple of weeks a few summers ago, and whilst I was sorting out some clothes on the shop floor, my Google Pixel 6 phone got stolen from the back room (door was open and the store didn’t have CCTV, which was surprising being that it was more a boutique with some really expensive dresses etc).
I suspected it was a little family and a little kid kept looking back at me, I didn’t think anything of it at the time, and then when I went out back, I was panicking being like where the f*** is my phone?! I was in shock, I was crying. I didn’t come back the next day.
I called 101, that went nowhere, and especially because there was no CCTV. I also didn’t insure the phone and now wish I did, like £600/700 down the drain that was and only just finished paying it off this year, as it was a new phone on contract then.
I was actually working in retail at the time and I got used to and desensitized to shoplifting, even in the MIND shop I was already volunteering at for a few months then, and a part of me was a bit more disgusted by what I witnessed sometimes.
Like I don’t give a f*** if you steal from a corporation, but stealing from a charity, that is a new low; was thinking how desperate people are now that these kinds of shops are targeted.
Overall, I feel for the girl, it’s not worth it. I’m glad I don’t work in retail and deal with these degenerates anymore. That was in my paying job though, I did enjoy volunteering at a shop, but after Cat’s Protection, I don’t want to risk reliving that event again somewhere else.
How much of a throbbing cock do you have to be to shoplift from a *charity shop*?
> Vivienne McCormick, a 25-year-old sales assistant at the British Heart Foundation in Nottingham, said she once had a thief swearing and threatening her.
>Other shopkeepers across Nottinghamshire say they are frustrated, as figures show incidents of shoplifting across the county have almost doubled in the past eight years.
Why not trial those perpetrators and if found guilty just have a leg tag for six to twelve months; and have shops optionally purchase a tagger doorbell when a person with a tag enters the shop, it will chime very noisily. Everyone will be aware of potential danger and have security to escort them out.