I witnessed something today & it's REALLY REALLY bugging me! 🤬I was having a mooch around a charity shop in Brighouse when I noticed a very well-dressed woman standing next to me, looking at a shelf neatly filled with handbags etc. She'd picked up a few rucksack-type bags - 2 in each hand - & then casually strolled around the shop. She came back to the shelves with all the bags on, very quickly picked up another rucksack & hurriedly left the shop without paying for any of them!. She nicked at LEAST 5 bags - she certainly didn't look as though she needed the money, so without even thinking about it I quickly grassed her up to one of the staff. The shop assistant ran to the door, but the woman was well away. We could see her in the distance - not exactly running, but she was legging it down the road like she'd been at the marching powder. Bet these bags are all priced up & on Ebay or Vinted by now! If it had been a little old lady looking as though she didn't have 2 pennies to rub together I might have looked the other way, but this woman certainly didn't look poor by any means!

How can anyone stoop so low as to steal from charity? Lowest of the low in my opinion!

Sorry about the rant but I just HAD to let off some steam!😠

26 minutes ago, Kathryn Magson said:

can anyone stoop so low as to steal from charity? Lowest

I know a few people who work in charity shops, happens all the time. Almost as bad are the hagglers,I know prices have gone up in charity shops like everything else but those who go to the counter and ask what's the best you can do on this really annoy me. You don't go to the till in M&S and ask for a reduction so why do it in a charity shop . Worse still and I've seen it many times are the ones who won't take no for an answer and continue trying to get a reduction.

I know these things happen - even in charity shops, but this was the first time I've actually seen it & she was so bloody blatant about it! Staff didn't spot her but I did cos she was next to me. It wasn't as though she looked poor - tarty but expensive clothes - caked in orange make-up & slug eyebrows.....you get the picture......

5 minutes ago, Twoshoes said:

I know a few people who work in charity shops, happens all the time. Almost as bad are the hagglers,I know prices have gone up in charity shops like everything else but those who go to the counter and ask what's the best you can do on this really annoy me. You don't go to the till in M&S and ask for a reduction so why do it in a charity shop . Worse still and I've seen it many times are the ones who won't take no for an answer and continue trying to get a reduction.I

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by Kathryn Magson

I used to volunteer in a charity shop raising money for Rwanda and it happened all the time. The one I worked in had two floors, bric-a-brac downstairs, clothes upstairs, so it was impossible to be on two floors at once. I couldn't begin to count the number of times people went up like rakes and came down 9 months pregnant.

Lower than a Lizards belly, totally shameless, if there are any Stocks left in any town centres stick them in there and send for the rotten fruit

ML

2 hours ago, Hooker1951 said:

Lower than a Lizards belly, totally shameless, if there are any Stocks left in any town centres stick them in there and send for the rotten fruit

ML

I would be first in the queue with my bag of squashed tomatoes at the ready! It was in The heart Foundation charity shop - it would have served her right if she'd had a heart attack as she legged it down the road - instant karma!

Scum of the earth

Why they would risk getting caught and ending up in a local paper with her mug shot and heading"local girl steals from charity shop" is absolutely beyond me!