Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been out of
a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.

John
wibbled on Sunday 11 October 2009 11:15

Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been out
of a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

Keeps unemployment down so in one sense it is for the greater good ;-
(TIC!)

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.

I think there people are a great deal less considerate and polite than 30
years ago.

--
Tim Watts

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John wrote:
Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been out of
a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.


No surprise there. I regularly chunter on about how the supermarket is
the ideal opportunity to point out to children that other people matter.
Not stopping in the entrance, keeping your trolley to one side of an
isle, allowing others to reach items, not playing about with things
you're not going to buy. Of course the complete opposite is now
regularly the case and don't get me started on how having to pay,
frequently seems to come as a complete surprise. They have rights you
know and the rest of us can just wait until they're done and young
mothers are the worst. It's sad actually, how inconsiderate we've become.

Andy C

Tim W wrote:
John
wibbled on Sunday 11 October 2009 11:15

Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been out
of a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

Keeps unemployment down so in one sense it is for the greater good ;-
(TIC!)

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.

I think there people are a great deal less considerate and polite than 30
years ago.

Try going round the ladies part of a fashion shop. Floors strewn with
clothes and tried on shoes that people would not dream of putting back
where they found them.

John wrote:

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then not
put them back on the right hook.

Particularly ****es me off in DIY sheds since people rummage through
plumbing items, ironmongery and electrical items then put them back in
precisely the wrong bins. This means that sometimes trying to find a
slack handful of fittings can take the best part of 15 minutes sorting
through and rejecting items one by one. Of course the things one wants
are always at the back of the bin and usually there are only three of
them. It's then necessary to search through each of the bins holding
similar fittings to find the other items that have been put in the wrong
place.

In article ,
Steve Firth wrote:
Particularly ****es me off in DIY sheds since people rummage through
plumbing items, ironmongery and electrical items then put them back in
precisely the wrong bins. This means that sometimes trying to find a
slack handful of fittings can take the best part of 15 minutes sorting
through and rejecting items one by one. Of course the things one wants
are always at the back of the bin and usually there are only three of
them. It's then necessary to search through each of the bins holding
similar fittings to find the other items that have been put in the wrong
place.

Other thing is how so much packaged stuff has been opened and bits
pinched. Usually when there's only a couple remaining and you're desperate
for one there and then.

--
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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


Other thing is how so much packaged stuff has been opened and bits
pinched. Usually when there's only a couple remaining and you're desperate
for one there and then.

Ah yes, I've fallen foul of that a few times. Before I got into the
habit of 100% inspection of everything, I was particularly ****ed off to
drive 15-20 miles to either of the nearest sheds, buy a pre-packed
something then arriving home to find that somebody had opened it to
remove the one vital screw/washer/bit that could not be substituted with
a generic part out of my toolbox.

"Andy Cap" wrote in message
o.uk...
John wrote:
Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it
anywhere. eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been out
of a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then
not put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.


No surprise there. I regularly chunter on about how the supermarket is the
ideal opportunity to point out to children that other people matter. Not
stopping in the entrance, keeping your trolley to one side of an isle,
allowing others to reach items, not playing about with things you're not
going to buy. Of course the complete opposite is now regularly the case
and don't get me started on how having to pay, frequently seems to come as
a complete surprise. They have rights you know and the rest of us can just
wait until they're done and young mothers are the worst. It's sad
actually, how inconsiderate we've become.

Andy C

Andy - you are my sort of guy (in a moral way). I won't get into grazing as
they walk around in the store - saw a guy eating a cooked chicken drumstick
the other day in Asda. (Would he pay? Dunno - but can't people control
themselves.)

Oh - and using the toilet and not washing hands before going into the
Supermarket to handle the goods.

"Invisible Man" wrote in message
...
Tim W wrote:
John
wibbled on Sunday 11 October 2009 11:15

Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it
anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been
out
of a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then
not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

Keeps unemployment down so in one sense it is for the greater good ;-
(TIC!)

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.

I think there people are a great deal less considerate and polite than 30
years ago.

Try going round the ladies part of a fashion shop.

I used to do that but they took out an injuction stopping me:-)

Adam

Steve Firth wrote:
John wrote:

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then not
put them back on the right hook.

Particularly ****es me off in DIY sheds since people rummage through
plumbing items, ironmongery and electrical items then put them back in
precisely the wrong bins.

That annoys me too. I've been caught out a few times, typically when
buying several of the same item, only to get home and find that one of
them is a different size / part number etc to the rest of them;
sometimes entailing another trip to the store to exchange the item. Just
because some idle sod tossed it into the wrong tub or hung it on the
wrong peg.

There are some stores I just never go into - Asda I avoid like the
plague - narrow isles, trolleys blocking isles, people pushing and
shoving. Grumpy staff. I hate the place. My idea of hell.

I had to walk out of Aldi the other day - someone had a screaming kid in
tow. And I do mean SCREAMING. After a few minutes I could stand it no
more and cleared off to sit in the car outside while the wife continued
shopping.

--
David in Normandy.
To e-mail you must include the password FROG on the
subject line, or it will be automatically deleted
by a filter and not reach my inbox.

"John" wrote in message
...

Andy - you are my sort of guy (in a moral way). I won't get into grazing
as they walk around in the store - saw a guy eating a cooked chicken
drumstick the other day in Asda. (Would he pay? Dunno - but can't people
control themselves.)

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.

(though sometimes there are also very good reasons for me to do that, but
most people don't have those).

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
.. .
Particularly ****es me off in DIY sheds since people rummage through
plumbing items, ironmongery and electrical items then put them back in
precisely the wrong bins.

This is also one of my major gripes about sheds (B&Q in particular). So
much so on one visit I actually called for the store manager and pointed out
the problem. I mentioned to him that if they (B&Q) got the new starters to
actually sort out the bins (pigeon holes), on a morning / night before the
store re-opened, the store staff would have an understanding of the
components and terminology, part identification, etc. He replied "It's
cheaper for the customer to sort through the bins"!!!

Whoosh--------

Therefore when I need some plumbing / electrical / ironmongery part and
Screwfix is shut I don't go to Been & Queued



John

"John" wrote in message
...

"Steve Firth" wrote in message
.. .
Particularly ****es me off in DIY sheds since people rummage through
plumbing items, ironmongery and electrical items then put them back in
precisely the wrong bins.

This is also one of my major gripes about sheds (B&Q in particular). So
much so on one visit I actually called for the store manager and pointed
out the problem. I mentioned to him that if they (B&Q) got the new
starters to actually sort out the bins (pigeon holes), on a morning /
night before the store re-opened, the store staff would have an
understanding of the components and terminology, part identification, etc.
He replied "It's cheaper for the customer to sort through the bins"!!!

Whoosh--------

Therefore when I need some plumbing / electrical / ironmongery part and
Screwfix is shut I don't go to Been & Queued



John



To be fair to B&Q I have seen staff sorting out the stock and they seemed
good at it.

ARWadsworth wrote:

"Invisible Man" wrote in message
...
Tim W wrote:
John
wibbled on Sunday 11 October 2009 11:15

Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it
anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has
been out
of a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and
then not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more
staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

Keeps unemployment down so in one sense it is for the greater good ;-
(TIC!)

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.

I think there people are a great deal less considerate and polite
than 30
years ago.

Try going round the ladies part of a fashion shop.

I used to do that but they took out an injuction stopping me:-)

Adam

I get away with it because I take my wife

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:34:25 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Other thing is how so much packaged stuff has been opened and bits
pinched. Usually when there's only a couple remaining and you're desperate
for one there and then.

Going back a few years I bought a cat flap from B&Q. Got it home, opened
the box and half of it was missing :-( Took it back and got it replaced.

Wandering round B&Q a few weeks later and was just passing the cat flaps -
one looked familiar - opened the box - it was the one I'd returned with
half of it missing !! They'd just put it back on the shelf :-( I pointed it
out but nobody seemed interested ...
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:49:50 +0100, John wrote:

To be fair to B&Q I have seen staff sorting out the stock and they
seemed good at it.

And several of the stores I've been in recently have lengths of 110mm
pipe attached to the uprights in the plumbing and fixings sections
with a notice above it say WTTEO "Don't know where to put it back?
Drop it in here.". I've yet to see any one checking the tubes and
putting stuff back but at least they are trying.

--
Cheers
Dave.

"Invisible Man" wrote in message
...
ARWadsworth wrote:

"Invisible Man" wrote in message
...
Tim W wrote:
John
wibbled on Sunday 11 October 2009 11:15

Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it
anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been
out
of a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then
not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff
to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

Keeps unemployment down so in one sense it is for the greater good ;-
(TIC!)

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns
inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.

I think there people are a great deal less considerate and polite than
30
years ago.

Try going round the ladies part of a fashion shop.

I used to do that but they took out an injuction stopping me:-)

Adam

I get away with it because I take my wife

It was what I was doing to my wife that caused the problem.

Adam

ARWadsworth wrote:

"Invisible Man" wrote in message
...
ARWadsworth wrote:

"Invisible Man" wrote in message
...
Tim W wrote:
John
wibbled on Sunday 11 October 2009 11:15

Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it
anywhere.
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has
been out
of a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and
then not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more
staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

Keeps unemployment down so in one sense it is for the greater good ;-
(TIC!)

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns
inconsiderate
behaviour) - irrespective of any cost implications.

I think there people are a great deal less considerate and polite
than 30
years ago.

Try going round the ladies part of a fashion shop.

I used to do that but they took out an injuction stopping me:-)

Adam

I get away with it because I take my wife

It was what I was doing to my wife that caused the problem.

Adam

Never actually been excluded from anywhere but have been told off in
pubs, tenpin bowling centres and by a DJ over the PA in Chicagos.

Cannot see that we cause grief so much as those who take the important
bits out of packing in B&Q though.

Hugh Jampton wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:34:25 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Other thing is how so much packaged stuff has been opened and bits
pinched. Usually when there's only a couple remaining and you're
desperate for one there and then.

Going back a few years I bought a cat flap from B&Q. Got it home,
opened the box and half of it was missing :-( Took it back and got it
replaced.

Wandering round B&Q a few weeks later and was just passing the cat
flaps - one looked familiar - opened the box - it was the one I'd
returned with half of it missing !! They'd just put it back on the
shelf :-( I pointed it out but nobody seemed interested ...

Happened to me three times with Wickes sinks - missing the fixing brackets &
seal. They suggested I take a pack put of another sink & left it on the
shelf. As you say, nobody was interested.

Last week in Wickes I wanted 2 toilet seats. Three on the shelf, one
obviously opened & was missing the fixings. Took all three to the checkout,
bought two & reported the other one. Bet I find it on the shelf next week.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:08:22 +0100, Hugh Jampton wrote:

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:34:25 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Other thing is how so much packaged stuff has been opened and bits
pinched. Usually when there's only a couple remaining and you're desperate
for one there and then.

Going back a few years I bought a cat flap from B&Q. Got it home, opened
the box and half of it was missing :-( Took it back and got it replaced.

Wandering round B&Q a few weeks later and was just passing the cat flaps -
one looked familiar - opened the box - it was the one I'd returned with
half of it missing !! They'd just put it back on the shelf :-( I pointed it
out but nobody seemed interested ...

The local B&Q had a pair of 4 x 10mm x 22mm manifolds on the shelf for well
over 18 months - the computer wouldn't order any as it thought that it had
some in stock, but no-one would buy them as the nuts and olives were
missing! Manual stock checks were obviously cursory at best.

I even pointed it out to them a few times.

SteveW

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.

--
Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

In message , Invisible Man
writes
ARWadsworth wrote:
"Invisible Man" wrote in message
I think there people are a great deal less considerate and polite
than 30
years ago.

Try going round the ladies part of a fashion shop.

I used to do that but they took out an injuction stopping me:-)

Adam

I get away with it because I take my wife
It was what I was doing to my wife that caused the problem.
Adam

Never actually been excluded from anywhere but have been told off in
pubs, tenpin bowling centres and by a DJ over the PA in Chicagos.

Cannot see that we cause grief so much as those who take the important
bits out of packing in B&Q though.


Peanuts -

I used to know someone who got ejected from the Vatican ...



--
geoff

geoff wrote:
In message , Invisible Man
writes
ARWadsworth wrote:
"Invisible Man" wrote in message
I think there people are a great deal less considerate and
polite than 30
years ago.

Try going round the ladies part of a fashion shop.

I used to do that but they took out an injuction stopping me:-)

Adam

I get away with it because I take my wife
It was what I was doing to my wife that caused the problem.
Adam

Never actually been excluded from anywhere but have been told off in
pubs, tenpin bowling centres and by a DJ over the PA in Chicagos.

Cannot see that we cause grief so much as those who take the
important bits out of packing in B&Q though.


Peanuts -

I used to know someone who got ejected from the Vatican ...

But you can't top Brian Jones being thrown out of the Rolling Stones for
having too wild a life style...


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

Steve Walker wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:08:22 +0100, Hugh Jampton wrote:

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:34:25 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Other thing is how so much packaged stuff has been opened and bits
pinched. Usually when there's only a couple remaining and you're
desperate for one there and then.

Going back a few years I bought a cat flap from B&Q. Got it home,
opened the box and half of it was missing :-( Took it back and got
it replaced.

Wandering round B&Q a few weeks later and was just passing the cat
flaps - one looked familiar - opened the box - it was the one I'd
returned with half of it missing !! They'd just put it back on the
shelf :-( I pointed it out but nobody seemed interested ...

The local B&Q had a pair of 4 x 10mm x 22mm manifolds on the shelf
for well over 18 months - the computer wouldn't order any as it
thought that it had some in stock, but no-one would buy them as the
nuts and olives were missing! Manual stock checks were obviously
cursory at best.

I even pointed it out to them a few times.

Twice I've found the bits I wanted in the B&Q plumbing section & had trouble
buying them because they were sans packaging.

"If it hasn't got a bar code you can't buy it". I pointed ut that if it
didn't have a bar code it obviously didn't exist - so could I just take it?
Much confusion.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

In uk.d-i-y, Steve Walker wrote:
The local B&Q had a pair of 4 x 10mm x 22mm manifolds on the shelf for well
over 18 months - the computer wouldn't order any as it thought that it had
some in stock, but no-one would buy them as the nuts and olives were
missing! Manual stock checks were obviously cursory at best.

Reminds of the time I tried to buy a phone in Curry's. I took it to the
till, the guy scanned it and declared that I couldn't have one because
they had no stock. I had to escalate the issue to the manager before I
was allowed to buy it.

I was sorely tempted to simply walk out with it. It obviously wasn't
theirs. :-)

--
Mike Barnes

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:18:37 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:
"If it hasn't got a bar code you can't buy it". I pointed ut that if it
didn't have a bar code it obviously didn't exist - so could I just take it?
Much confusion.

:-) I really like my local DIY place for that; the staff all seem to
carry encyclopedias around in their heads and know exactly what everything
is, where is it in the store, and how much is costs - whether it has an
intact bar-code or not.

"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
. uk...
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.

If I go to a restaurant, I don't pay till after I've eaten - is that theft?

Since I've got no intention to deprive the supermarket of their money, I'd
be very surprised if anybody a) tried to prosecute me and b) succeeded.

In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Twice I've found the bits I wanted in the B&Q plumbing section & had
trouble buying them because they were sans packaging.

"If it hasn't got a bar code you can't buy it". I pointed ut that if it
didn't have a bar code it obviously didn't exist - so could I just take
it? Much confusion.

When that's happened to me they send a runner to get the barcode or
whatever off the label on the shelf.

--
*I don't have a solution, but I admire your problem. *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 11 Oct, 11:15, "John" wrote:
Is it just me - or have others noticed an increase in people who have
clearly changed their mind about a product and have just left it anywhere..
eg - a tub of butter left with the crisps.
Damned inconsiderate as most shops will scrap the item if it has been out of
a chilled cabinet.

Seen in the DIY Sheds as well where people have browsed items and then not
put them back on the right hook.

I guess some might say "so what" - but if the shops employ more staff to
keep the shelves tidy then the prices go up.

I mainly feel it is inconsiderate behaviour (which spawns inconsiderate
behaviour) *- irrespective of any cost implications.

Although I would always take something back to the right place myself,
I can sort of understand this behaviour in my local supermarket. They
have a bit of a habit of stocking the same goods with different deals
in different parts of the shop, so you pick up, for example, a pack of
4 batteries (same applies to beer etc etc) then find a display in a
different part of the shop with 8 batteries on a 4 + 4 deal at the
same price as the original 4. Around it will be scattered all the 4
packs that people have tossed there when they took up the better deal
and, presumably, the people who drop them deduce that the supermarket
is just trying to screw profits out of the unwary by distributing the
good deals away from where the main stock is and in some small way
they're taking revenge.

B+Q are different of course, as they often completely fail to put a
relevant price anywhere near a display (or display a price that's
different from what the till shows when it's scanned). They must
wonder why some things sell so slowly.
The best in my local though was the long-lasting pallet of
plasterboard that someone had clearly reversed a fork-lift into, so
each sheet had a huge ding out of it. I asked them if they'd discount
it as damaged goods and, when they refused, bought some good sheets
elsewhere. 6 months later, the stack was still sitting there
intact......

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 ;-)

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

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

In uk.d-i-y, Frank Erskine wrote:
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 :-)

For some value of "unusual". I'm a regular Sainsbury's shopper but (like
many people I guess) I wouldn't dream of buying 99.9% of what they sell.

--
Mike Barnes

Frank Erskine wrote:

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

I'd rather believe that than that I was losing my marbles ;-)

Chris
--
Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

On 11 Oct, 22:46, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

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

However it would also be difficult to prove theft, against a halfway
competent brief in a magistrate's court. "Theft" has a very specific
meaning (look it up, it's really very narrow), and doesn't cover this.
Of course if the defendant was before a jury, they'd be unlikely to
have sympathy for a legal nicety like that.

If anything, there would be a stronger case for criminal damage to the
chicken leg.

On 12 Oct, 10:17, Huge wrote:

It isn't just me who does this, then? I cannot abide that high-pitched
shrieking that children do. Needless to say, their parents make no effort
to make them stop. Indeed, these days parents make no effort to control their
children in public whatsoever.

Duct tape?

Squirty foam?

Angle grinder?

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:49:28 -0700 (PDT), Andy Dingley
had this to say:

On 12 Oct, 10:17, Huge wrote:

It isn't just me who does this, then? I cannot abide that high-pitched
shrieking that children do. Needless to say, their parents make no effort
to make them stop. Indeed, these days parents make no effort to control their
children in public whatsoever.

Duct tape?

Squirty foam?

Angle grinder?

Nah - WD40's supposed to stop all squeaking.

--
Frank Erskine

"Huge" wrote


It isn't just me who does this, then? I cannot abide that high-pitched
shrieking that children do. Needless to say, their parents make no effort
to make them stop. Indeed, these days parents make no effort to control
their
children in public whatsoever.


I want to know what divvy designed those child seats that get issued in
supermarket cafes!
This is a tall plastic cylinder with a moulded seat shape at the top.
Practically every child I've seen sitting in one of these feels duty-bound
to thump their heals against it creating a totally aggravating drumming
sound.
Neither parents nor cafe staff seem interested in preventing this annoyance.

Phil

On 12 Oct 2009 09:17:40 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2009-10-11, David in Normandy wrote:

I had to walk out of Aldi the other day - someone had a screaming kid in
tow. And I do mean SCREAMING. After a few minutes I could stand it no
more and cleared off to sit in the car outside while the wife continued
shopping.

It isn't just me who does this, then? I cannot abide that high-pitched
shrieking that children do.

One *Really* wonders what it's like living with them in their house !

(My guess is that the kids get plonked en-mass in front of a great big
telly and the volume turned up full. Or alternatively, they have about
15 siblings and they all have to yell and scream above each other to
get food.)

Needless to say, their parents make no effort
to make them stop. Indeed, these days parents make no effort to control their
children in public whatsoever.

Derek

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:49:50 +0100, "John"
wrote:

To be fair to B&Q I have seen staff sorting out the stock and they seemed
good at it.


Our local B&Q seem to have frequent purges when the bin the F***ing
lot and start again.

Derek

Andy Dingley
wibbled on Monday 12 October 2009 10:49

On 12 Oct, 10:17, Huge wrote:

It isn't just me who does this, then? I cannot abide that high-pitched
shrieking that children do. Needless to say, their parents make no effort
to make them stop. Indeed, these days parents make no effort to control
their children in public whatsoever.

Duct tape?

To quiet the children?

Squirty foam?

To prevent the female reproducing more?


Angle grinder?

To prevent the male reproducing more?

--
Tim Watts

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