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21 Apr 14
22:04
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picked up some parcels from the amazon locker, put em in me bag. like i always do. i know it looks slightly iffy in a shop, but what else am i supposed to do with em, carrying around the shop on my head??
anyway, about 2 seconds later i hear a call saying "security aisle 4" or summat like that. i knew it was about me, nobody else in the shop. but i thought oh feck you, and carried on my shop and went looking for the crisps. this kid stops me and says can i look in your bag? i said no, no you cant. im pretty bloody stubborn and my first thoughts were let him get the police and i'll show the police whats in my bag to make him look a total lemon. but then for some reason the red mist decended and i went mental at him. swearing like a lunatic. by this time two of his mates had appeared, so i thought ok you can see whats in my bag. let your mates see what a prat youre being. i showed him and threw my amazon parcels on the floor, hope i havent broke them lol. hes apologising and offered to shake my hand and im just telling him to fook off. i then threw my basket of shopping on the floor and stormed out like a nazi stormtrooper.
now i feel a total prat for overeacting! still annoyed at being accused of being a thief just cos i use their flipping amazon lockers, that they put in to try to get more business. annoyed at how he asked me to. his words were just "can you i look in your bag please" and then "i saw you put something in your bag" not...excuse me i know this is annoying but i saw you put something in your bag near the locker, im sure its just something from the locker but can you just show me what it was. ok id have still been pissed off, but maybe a little less so? but whatever, i know i overeacted by swearing like a crazy man at him. should i go in and say something, or will that make it worse? i dont want to get the kid the sack. i dont want to complain, i just i dunno i feel a bit bad at how agressive i was to him.
anyway, about 2 seconds later i hear a call saying "security aisle 4" or summat like that. i knew it was about me, nobody else in the shop. but i thought oh feck you, and carried on my shop and went looking for the crisps. this kid stops me and says can i look in your bag? i said no, no you cant. im pretty bloody stubborn and my first thoughts were let him get the police and i'll show the police whats in my bag to make him look a total lemon. but then for some reason the red mist decended and i went mental at him. swearing like a lunatic. by this time two of his mates had appeared, so i thought ok you can see whats in my bag. let your mates see what a prat youre being. i showed him and threw my amazon parcels on the floor, hope i havent broke them lol. hes apologising and offered to shake my hand and im just telling him to fook off. i then threw my basket of shopping on the floor and stormed out like a nazi stormtrooper.
now i feel a total prat for overeacting! still annoyed at being accused of being a thief just cos i use their flipping amazon lockers, that they put in to try to get more business. annoyed at how he asked me to. his words were just "can you i look in your bag please" and then "i saw you put something in your bag" not...excuse me i know this is annoying but i saw you put something in your bag near the locker, im sure its just something from the locker but can you just show me what it was. ok id have still been pissed off, but maybe a little less so? but whatever, i know i overeacted by swearing like a crazy man at him. should i go in and say something, or will that make it worse? i dont want to get the kid the sack. i dont want to complain, i just i dunno i feel a bit bad at how agressive i was to him.
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shoot them in the face
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Nice distraction. Did you get away with much?
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lol. on the way home i did actually think, i wonder if while all this was happening a shoplifter walked in...saw all the commotion and made off with half the shop!
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Go back in and apologise.
Shop workers have to put up with all sorts of idiots and threats, you've just probably ruined that blokes day. Buy him a bottle of beer and say sorry. |
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what worries me is, i often go in several supermarkets buying similar things. like tonight after this incident i went in sainsburys, bought crisps pop and a sandwich. then i walked past another sainsburys and thought oh i need some washing up liquid. so i went in there and bought washing up liquid plus another set of crisps, pop and a sandiwch for tomorrow.
if the security bloke says whats in your bag, if i havent kept the receipt how the hell do i prove i just bought them at the other sainsburys and not just stole them??? ffs! im gonna be paranoid now every time i go in a bleeding shop.  |
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Sounds like you've gone way OTT. Bloke was only doing his job.
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I s'pose your only other option was to headbutt him , then kick off at the police when they arrive , smear all the cr^ppy food they give you all over the cell walls & end up getting branded with mental health problems !
Oh well the good news is you're now free to shoplift at your peril in their store as it's a fkn rip off anyway  |
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Gan back later and torch the place
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is that what you did?
i know i overeacted, i just get fed up with shop staff looking at me like im a shoplifter. i get it all the time. drives me fecking crazy. always have staff or security guards following me. i know theyre fed up with getting fleeced, but treating customers like criminals isnt going to do anything but make sure you dont have any customers. every time i go in this shop its empty. i only buy stuff cos i feel guilty taking my amazon locker parcel then walking out without buying anything. they always look at me funny when i do that too! |
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I think your reaction was a lidl over the top
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Go to the cashier or customer service desk next time and politely explain to them you are collecting from the lockers....
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or just not bother going in again...
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is it a chain..
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sideshowbob
21 Apr 14 22:40 i know i overeacted, i just get fed up with shop staff looking at me like im a shoplifter. i get it all the time Perhaps it's your appearance. Try washing, having a shave and changing your clothes, then try again. |
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spar. theres a sainsburys next door to it.
i only go in to collect parcels, then sometimes buy stuff cos like i say i feel guilty taking my parcel then going into sainsburys next door to buy stuff. wont be buying owt again though. if i have to get a parcel im going to hold it in the air whilst i walk out, like im on the run from the police! |
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i have a shower every day thanks. usually a bath too.
im sure it is how i dress, i work for myself so i dont have to wear a cheap suit cos my boss says so. im buggered if im going to change how i dress just cos some snooty kid on minimum wage thinks i look dodgy. besides, it mainly happens in **** shops. spar, wilkinsons, stuff like that. never happens in boots, m&s, sainsburys. the **** the shop, the more suspicious the staff are, the less customers they get. strange equation. |
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TBH if I seen some trampy fooker that seems to go in every single shop, I would assume he was a shoplifter or a flasher
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its also cos i have a bag/rucksack. i get it a lot less when i dont have a bag.
but again, im buggered if im gonna not take a bag into the shop just cos some kid thinks its suspicious. if they dont want customers, fine i'll shop somewhere else. hope they go bust. id rather pay twice as much to not get treated like a criminal for wearing jeans or carrying a bag. if they dont know im not a thief, then they cant be very good at their security. ive been in the shop about 100 times to get parcels from the amazon locker. they surely must have noticed me do it before and checked the cctv footage ro see if i was up to no good. or more to the point, they should only be suspicious of customers who have been flagged up as known shoplifters. which i cant be, cos ive never stolen anything. im betting some bright spark as seen me putting parcels in my bag before, thought it was suspicious but not bothered checking to see what i was doing and just presumed i was a thief. |
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lol why am i trampy? cos i wear £100 jeans?
i must remember to toe the line and get a crap office job on piss poor wages, just so i can experience the joys of wearing a cheap suit! or not. |
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anyway. fook this.
i only went to the stupid shop to get my pink panther dvd boxset. 12 disc collection edition no less. more pink panther than you can shake a stick at! though 5 of em are just the cartoons, not even the good bit just the pink panther bits. no ant and aardvark in sight. but still, 6 pink panther movies to enjoy!  well 5, and the stupid one they made after peter sellers had died. |
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Not a very clever shop assistant if he's stopping you in the shop.
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Trampy, carrying a rucksack with pink panther dvd's in it. I'm surprised your not getting rugby tackled every 5 minutes
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Yeah , Def don't go back , they'll be planting stuff on you next
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Bits of Fish in your coat pockets & stuff
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Tramp with violence issues who thinks he is richard branson cos he is self employed and files a tax return.
Shopkeeper should have knocked you out imo. |
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theyll do well, i wear those fitted hoodie things. never get fishes in there. they could fit a can of spam in my hood though.
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You sound like a Romanian beggar ffs
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violence issues?
dont talk bollocks, im the least violent person imaginable. and if anybody says different, i'll fecking **** em. |
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no, i sound like a rock god.
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Gary Glitter maybe
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bobs freds amuse me
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im buggered if im going to change how i dress just cos some snooty kid on minimum wage thinks i look dodgy.
Why does it bother you that he's a youth on minimum wage? Would you rather be stopped by the manager? |
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WTF is an amazon locker ?
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Unfortunately, it would seem that your style of dress, general appearance and your penchant for placing items into your pocket/bag/haversack or just hidden beneath your jacket, mirrors very closely the actions of some inconsiderate people who use those same techniques to steal things from shops.
You look like a duck. You sound like a duck. You hide stuff like a duck. Chances are.,..you're quackers! He probably only wanted to advise you to keep your items in view. If they were checking for shoplifting you would have been asked outside of the store after you had taken the goods off the premises. |
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You dont need to have left the shop to get done for shoplifting.
Concealment is enough |
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casemoney
22 Apr 14 00:19 WTF is an amazon locker ? Where you store women of a height of over 6 feet 6 and built like wrestlers. |
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an amazon locker is a locker for amazon.
or to elaborate further, you buy stuff on amazon and get it delivered to an amazon locker in a shop. thereby eliminating the whole "postman knocks on door, youre out, postman takes your parcel back the depot, you have to waste half your day going to pick it up" palava. theres about 30 loclers, you type in a code given to you by amazon and a locker with your item opens for you to take it out. i dont think its unreasonable to pick up your parcel from the locker and put it in a bag. the shop obviously know they have amazon lockers inside their shop. its their shop. |
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Teabag. I stand corrected. Thank you.
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