It's stealing. It's an insiginifent theft, and prolly way more trouble then it'd be worth to prosue. So i doubt anything would come of it. You talking the theft of what, a few cents if even?
Poll: Eating Grapes at the Market: Sampling or Stealing?
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It is techincally stealing, unless they tell you that you can sample them... but I mean, if there's a new kind of grape I've never had and am considering buying, they damn well better not yell at me for sampling, lest they lose a potential sale!
(I did this with Concord grapes, which are fucking delicious, it turns out)
(I did this with Concord grapes, which are fucking delicious, it turns out)
How are you paying for the ones you stole? Adding however many grapes you ate to the scale and then putting them back? Or weighing them after they've gone through your system? And why sample if you're planning on buying anyways? I thought the whole point of sampling something was to find out wether you wanted to buy it or not.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Stealing. Theft is theft regardless of how trivial it is. Thankfully, my incredibly loose morals help me justify it by saying I'm somehow helping starving orphans.
People actually do this? I always thought that was just a lame joke they put in sit-coms when the writers run out of any actual comedy, clearly I don't go the store often enough.
Well as for my opinion one little grape probably isn't something to be concerned about, however if a customer tries "Sampling them" several times without intention to actually buy them, then yeah, I'd say that warrents telling them to cut it out.
Well as for my opinion one little grape probably isn't something to be concerned about, however if a customer tries "Sampling them" several times without intention to actually buy them, then yeah, I'd say that warrents telling them to cut it out.
Because you're not buying by weight, you're buying by bunch.New Troll said:
You sample to find out if they're good enough.
Equally with Gregg's snack bits or most pubs real ales.
Where i come from the ghetto(in the ghettoooo..in the ghettooo) we call that stealing which is considered something of a crime in these here parts so no,as much i was i would like to i don't sample food before i buy them.Now feel,seezing and basically fondling said foods is perfectly legit. So i molest the helll of my produce.
If I'm actually buying them, then I'll eat a few as I make my way around the rest of the supermarket. If I'm not buying them, I don't eat them.
Some of you seem to think there's a special place in the deepest pits of hell reserved exclusively for alleged grape stealer's.
I don't even like damn things, but I guess it's alright from a common sense point of view if you intend to buy them anyway, though it technically IS stealing. I doubt a single fuck would be given if someone with £50 of groceries tasted a grape then put the rest of the packet into their cart.
I'm sure for every 1 grape eaten by a potential customer, the store will throw out 100 due to them passing their use by date or needing the shelf space for other products anyway. The ethical and financial impact of eating one grape is below negligible, and I'd just 'facepalm' if some were to tell me that taking a grape off a bunch before buying was some sort of 'gateway crime'. I guess I'm saying that 'stealing grapes' is the worlds smallest loss leader.
I wouldn't do it anyway, even if I did like grapes in case some Grocery White Knight reported me to the fruit police.
Now, what REALLY pisses me off is people stealing free things off magazines. And is reading magazines in a shop without buying it piracy, theft or perfectly acceptable?
I don't even like damn things, but I guess it's alright from a common sense point of view if you intend to buy them anyway, though it technically IS stealing. I doubt a single fuck would be given if someone with £50 of groceries tasted a grape then put the rest of the packet into their cart.
I'm sure for every 1 grape eaten by a potential customer, the store will throw out 100 due to them passing their use by date or needing the shelf space for other products anyway. The ethical and financial impact of eating one grape is below negligible, and I'd just 'facepalm' if some were to tell me that taking a grape off a bunch before buying was some sort of 'gateway crime'. I guess I'm saying that 'stealing grapes' is the worlds smallest loss leader.
I wouldn't do it anyway, even if I did like grapes in case some Grocery White Knight reported me to the fruit police.
Then you'd be a thief stealing an entire individual product with its own retail value, whereas a bunch of grapes presumably has between 40-60 of them. Surely the real ethical issue with regards to fruit lies in excess packaging, underpaid growers, overcharging for necessary goods, the costs and resources involved in transporting them across the world, use of pesticides, or even theft of an entire packet of them?New Troll said:
Now, what REALLY pisses me off is people stealing free things off magazines. And is reading magazines in a shop without buying it piracy, theft or perfectly acceptable?