thanks for this reply --- im trying to just calm my friend down as him and his relative are pretty shook up by this whole event, I can imagine lots of people cheat the self check out every hour----- I cannot imagine this would be picked up on cctv and then if it was amazingly then would they link it to the card used and then get the police over a 100 miles away involved!-----99% of people on the net seem to get stopped as they leave the shop, cannot see one instance of this sort of thing happening and someone getting caught at a later date

thanks for this reply --- im trying to just calm my friend down as him and his relative are pretty shook up by this whole event, I can imagine lots of people cheat the self check out every hour----- I cannot imagine this would be picked up on cctv and then if it was amazingly then would they link it to the card used and then get the police over a 100 miles away involved!-----99% of people on the net seem to get stopped as they leave the shop, cannot see one instance of this sort of thing happening and someone getting caught at a later date

Im liking maybe the idea of an anonymous letter with a £5 note or postal order to the store in question, laying it on thick re so sorry etc as i think this could possibly calm the relative in question down a little -------- then possibly keep a copy of this letter in case of the worst case million in one chance that the police get involved soon------i wouldnt like to suggest to my friend that they send an email or go in person to a shop as it could get totally blown out of proportion and then they have an email address to go on or actually call the police / complete paper work etc with my friend now -----also a couple of people have mentioned on here and also on other forums that if you are drunk the staff are at fault aswell for not noticing this at the time, the way my friend described the story i cannot believe they did not get collared at the time as just put some things into the bag and walked out ------- im thinking they should thank themselves very very lucky and try and forget about the whole episode to be honest and not get so drunk that they make such silly decisions!!!

thanks for the replies so far, im just telling my friend to try and forget about it ive spent a bit of times on various forums in past 24 hours and have not seen one post in which a shoplifter was caught way after the event, 99% of people posting get caught as they go to leave the shop i can imagine the odds of getting caught in this case would be rather large!

could I please ask for some advice for a friend who is deeply worried at the moment due to an incident this weekend regarding self scanning in tesco and the failure to scan all items. He was with a relative who paid for a few items via card, my friend then came to the same checkout with a couple of items and placed them straight into the bag without paying. He was quite drunk at the time so bad no idea why he did this, also the relative was very drunk at the time, a sheer moment of madness. it wasnt until the next day both have realized what happened they both left the store together with the items unchallenged. My friends relative is worried sick this will have been seen on cctv and will be in the process of police and store action as we speak as they paid for some of the items on debit card This all happened in a very busy city centre tesco express city over a 100 miles away from their home so I said this would be highly unlikely that it will be seen anyway on the cctv and even if it was would the store take it further for 2 items totalling £5??? any advice please people