Teso Shopper Accused Of Trying To Steal A Wire Shopping Basket.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3264708/The-moment-Tesco-shopper-accosted-security-guards-trying-carry-groceries-car-wire-basket-avoid-paying-plastic-bags.html

In this case the security guards were only doing their job, why did this person need to make such a fuss.

/// A spokesman for Tesco said shoppers could take baskets to their cars, as long as they were brought back to the store. ///

Oh yes, and how many would? some can't even bother to wheel the shopping trolleys back where they are stored.

But it appears she managed to get a £10 voucher out of it along with press coverage, the only saving grace is that the security guards also happened to be black, else it could have been even more serious.

[fiction-factory]

The underlying racism on some posts in this thread is worrying

[Mamyalynne]

No response?

I wonder would you address that comment to any Fleet Sales Development Manager you met?

[ummmm]

I'm not ashamed to say I have three Londis baskets, very handy round the house. I did try to give them back but they bought new ones and told me to keep them :-)

[andy-hughes]

fiction-factory - //The underlying racism on some posts in this thread is worrying //

I would agree.

I have raised a question with AOG regarding his point about the gentleman in question dressing for court in a style that was not his 'normal attire', because I am interested to know where AOG located the information about what the gentleman's 'normal attire' might be - because there is no indication of his occupation or income bracket in the report.

I am, at the time of writing, without a response.

[Lie-in King]

Andy - Mamya has told us what Mr Hilton does for a living ^ 14:05 ^ - I suspect she did as I did & used this -

https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/delroy-hilton/41/b64/686

[fiction-factory]

Andy- I also queried a comment from a poster on here who said we only needed to look at the two girls in the Tesco case to see what was going on here (with the added comment that they will one day be wearing electronic tags), but he wouldn't elaborate.

[ummmm]

What's popped up on FB is it was Asda so may Tesco is getting unnecessary bad press...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6682926/Bag-row-shopper-banned.html?CMP=spklr-_-S9SunSocial-_-FBPAGE-_-TheSun-thesun-_-20151009-_-News-_-251784793-_-Imageandlink

[Mamyalynne]

AOG's link @ 10.58 is the Asda one Ummmm yes.

[ummmm]

I wasn't paying attention, Mammy, too busy watching the boys scratch each other!

[Mamyalynne]

Oh no - boredom or fighting?

[Mamyalynne]

Oh well - we may never know how the sartorial secrets of Mr Hilton are known to some and not others.

[fiction-factory]

divebuddy- you can try to twist things around all you like. Anyone who reads it can see what you wrote and what I said. Your'e the one who said that anyone who sees the two girls can see what's really going on- but you haven't clarified what you meant.

[tamborine]

She can do my shopping. £10 voucher AND goods = WIN WIN ;)

[fiction-factory]

Er, okay

[douglas9401]

I don't belieeeve it!

[Mamyalynne]

Hopefully AOG will return tomorrow , he must have overlooked my query.

[andy-hughes]

And mine - I am even more intrigued to hear about AOG's assertion that the gentleman in question was not presumed to be wearing his 'usual attire', when information about his occupation demonstrates that he clearly was wearing exactly what he would usually wear to work, one can safely assume.

I await AOG's response with interest.