19-01-2015, 07:05 PM
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Children taking sweets from Pick n Mix
Getting some sweets for myself in Wilko this afternoon and a little girl appeared beside me and started to take a sweet from the selection. I said quietly 'don't do that please'. She withdrew reluctantly, and then came back with her sister and they tried it again. So I challenged her yet again. 'My mum said we could take a sweet each.' I said 'only if you pay for it!'Mum then called them from the tills and they went away without their sweets.
Was I being harsh/unfair? Or was I giving them a lesson - that mother should have done - that they should not steal?
Customers pay for lost profits in higher prices, so if one child did this once or twice a day, what about Wilko's loss?
19-01-2015, 07:24 PM
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Re: Children taking sweets from Pick n Mix
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
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I am with you on this one, Jazzi. Those Pick and Mix things are a great temptation - but children should be taught not to steal.
100% right, but as a bit of germophobe, I have added issues with that, I would not like to buy something that 50 hands per day were digging thru.
I see something similar here in NY supermarkets. People will pick up a large bag of grapes, then carry on eating them while continuing with their shopping, so what they've eaten never was paid for.
19-01-2015, 07:30 PM
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Re: Children taking sweets from Pick n Mix
Two things come to mind here ,first is when my daughter was about 2 she went shopping with me and she had a small red zip up bag , i happened to turn round and see her putting sweets in the bag , i told her off and took the sweets out and put them back.Years later my neighbour who was working there at the time use to delight in telling everyone about this episode ,and it became quite obvious i was being watched each time i shopped there ,and to the point where id be asked to empty my bag out at the till on some occasions ,I stopped going to that shop in the end .
The other that comes to mind is not all children can take in right from wrong ,
I would have left it to the parent to chastise the children .
19-01-2015, 07:36 PM
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Re: Children taking sweets from Pick n Mix
Originally Posted by Eliza
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Two things come to mind here ,first is when my daughter was about 2 she went shopping with me and she had a small red zip up bag , i happened to turn round and see her putting sweets in the bag , i told her off and took the sweets out and put them back.Years later my neighbour who was working there at the time use to delight in telling everyone about this episode ,and it became quite obvious i was being watched each time i shopped there ,and to the point where id be asked to empty my bag out at the till on some occasions ,I stopped going to that shop in the end .
The other that comes to mind is not all children can take in right from wrong ,
I would have left it to the parent to chastise the children .
19-01-2015, 07:37 PM
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Re: Children taking sweets from Pick n Mix
Absolutely right Jazzie, one sweet or 20 it is stealing.My son once bit a peach in Tescos when he was about 3 . I took it to the till in my trolley with the shopping and paid for it having told him he could only take fruit at home unless mummy asked him to put it in a bag in a shop .
19-01-2015, 09:36 PM
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Re: Children taking sweets from Pick n Mix
The girls said their Mum told them they could take a sweet each. To me, that is so wrong! She was yards away at the tills and as I was getting my own sweets I politely asked them not to put their hands in. And did say, not unless you pay.|
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