On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:39:21 GMT, Chris J Dixon
had this to say:

Harry Bloomfield wrote:

It happens that Clive George formulated :
I've got less of a problem with grazing - indeed, I've done it. Obviously
I'll not be doing it on stuff which needs weighing, or stuff which makes a
mess, but taking eg a biscuit out of a packet doesn't seem to be that bad to
me.

Until you have paid for the item, it is not your property, so it could
be theft.

OTOH, taking something from another's trolley (before the
checkout) isn't ;-)

It's good fun dropping something unusual into somebody else's trolley
when they leave it in the middle of an aisle :-)

--
Frank Erskine