Silly Girls, Shoplifting

[Tilly2]

I hace just witnessed a shoplifting incident in Lidl. As I was going in I noticed two seventeenish year old girls hanging about and had to say excuse me to get past them. Once in the shop, I noticed another girl, standing by the entrance door with a sewing machine in her hands. I thought it was odd that she hadn't got a trolley. I saw her look over to the tills and carried on. I picked up a loaf and out of the corner of my eye saw her go out through the entrance door.

I ran over to the tills and asked them to call security. Three blokes appeared and went out through the exit door to find them. I ran back to the entrance to go out and help them identify her and the alarm went off! I only had a loaf! Why didn't the alarm go off when she went through the entrance door?

They spotted her getting into a car and took the registration number. They thanked me and said she would have been caught on the CCTV.

Silly, silly girls. The sewing machine was £79.99

[tonyav]

Did they let you have the loaf for free as a reward ?.

[Tilly2]

No, Yont, they didn't.

[DTCwordfan]

A stitch in time and they should serve nine......

[tonyav]

tut tut, shame on them then, after you have probably saved them £79.99p.

[Tilly2]

I wasn't expecting a free loaf. It was all rather exciting!

[Sam1960]

in my local Lidl Tilly the alarm sounds if you take the shopping basket out of the store !! maybe that was why it went off when you only had a loaf !!

[Tilly2]

Why did the alarm not go off, when she went through the door but when I tried, it did? I had a loaf. Do they have security tags on them?

[Tilly2]

Sam, thank you. Now I know.

[tonyav]

Tilly2
Question Author
I wasn't expecting a free loaf.


A bottle of wine then, Yilly ;-)

[Eve]

Maybe the basket set it off rather than the products?

I've reported a few before now. One prompted a tannoy announcement as to whether the lads going through the till would like to take the chocolate out of their pockets. There was a gang of them going in and thieving stuff.

[DTCwordfan]

I'd go and ask the manager tomorrow if they need a witness statement - and a 'oh and how does a customer, who does this, get rewarded, then?'

Free bottle of vino, a bloody case I would think.

[New Judge]

They are not silly. They are criminals who almost certainly conduct their lives in this way as a habit. They will flog the machine for a tenner secure in the knowledge that (a) they are unlikely to be caught and (b) even if they are they will probably be offered either a caution or, at worst, an £80 fixed penalty (less than you get for speeding).

There's nothing silly about their behaviour at all.

[Tilly2]

Have you tried Lidl wine, DTC?

[Tilly2]

They looked like three 'nice, middle class girls.' Well dressed and not at all 'chavvy' That is why I think they were silly. Why get a criminal record in such a stupid way?

waits, for the fall-out!

[Sparkles62]

It has always amazed me the risks people will take to steal really stupid things.
Many years ago , I worked in a cake factory,
We had a factory shop, where we could buy overmakes or wonky cakes for ridiculous prices,
You could get a six portion jam and fresh cream sponge cake for 10p, or a large 18 portion gateau for £2.
Every day I would watch the idiots hiding cakes inside their overalls as they left, risking their jobs and their reputations for 10p, unbelievable.

[Psybbo]

They sound as if they were organised and experienced, Tilly. But they didn't count on you!

[Eve]

The most common places I see shoplifters (see a lot being dragged back in store, police out etc...) are the cheaper stores, mainly a discount bargain store and Primark.

They even had a security guard in a local craft shop last time I went in to get knitting supplies!?!?!

[boxtops]

If Lidl wine is as good as Aldi wine, tilly, it'll be nice.

[DTCwordfan]

a few, tilly, mainly bordeauxs and sauv blancs and I would say, 'okay'......

[mikey4444]

Well done...we need more people like you Tilly !