THE CORNER SHOPLIFTERS Cops smash gang ‘stealing £100,000s of stock from big supermarkets to order to be sold on in corner shops’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34572772/met-police-gangs-steal-supermarkets-sell-corner-shops/
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THE CORNER SHOPLIFTERS Cops smash gang ‘stealing £100,000s of stock from big supermarkets to order to be sold on in corner shops’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34572772/met-police-gangs-steal-supermarkets-sell-corner-shops/
Posted by BestButtons
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Robin hood in action – if the corner shop prices are lower than the supermarket
> Thieves are sent to grab booze and household goods from the likes of Waitrose and Co-op and then pass on the loot to the independent stores.
> The Sun accompanied Met Police cops as they smashed a gang in dawn raids — recovering £150,000 of alleged stolen goods and arresting a suspected kingpin, 48, and his wife, 43, at their plush home in Cheam, South London.
> Some items seized were own-brand goods and had labels brazenly peeled off, meaning some punters will have no idea about the stolen items they are consuming.
> For example Co-Op white wine bottles were being flogged at a number of the corner shops.
> Among the items that were marked and most likely to have been resold were Cadbury’s Dairy Milk bars, Guylian seashell chocolates, Gaviscon Double Action tablets, Sensodyne toothpaste and Smirnoff vodka.
> Also tracked were Gordons gin, Fair liquid pods, Vanish stain remover and Aptamil baby formula.
> We filmed as 10 cops stormed into NR Food and Wine in Mitcham and searched its owner, before seizing masses of stock including discounted wines and baby formula for examination.
If you see someone shop lifting baby formula… they are probably part of an organised criminal network and partially responsible for an increase in prices and lack of stock availability.
But the top minds of reddit say that only the noble impoverished are the ones shoplifting
Weed not making up the revenue for corner shops anymore? What is the world coming to
Reddit always told me it was starving single mothers stealing food for their children? Are redditors wrong? Impossible.
Doing God’s work. Well done police.
Too bad the government doesn’t see sense and keeps cutting funding to police
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I wonder who owns these corner shops? I wonder who is encouraging these shoplifters by funding them to provide supplies for these corner shops?
Forever a mystery the police will never be able to put together.
Another blight on our society that we are expected to live with and pay for.
Ah yes the Reddit belief that “shoplifting is victimless because thieves should have access to whatever they want teehee”
Who actually shops in a corner shop in this day and age?
I had the unfortunate experience of meeting someone who did this (though not as part of a gang). He regularly stole bottles of alcohol from the Big Tesco and sold it to a small corner shop in the middle of nowhere. A warrant was made for his arrest for shoplifting, and when he was arrested he was carrying some other shoplifted goods.