I hadn't left the store, or finished the process. I offered to restart the process and scan it all through properly, but the woman on self-checkout just called security over. What I was scanning clearly weren't bananas, so it was kind of clear my intention.. . I don't really know much about the details of law, and the manager started telling me he'd taken someone to court for doing the same thing on an item worth a lot less... I guess he might have been just trying to intimidate me. And it worked. I'm not 100% sure they have a copy of my driving license, but the manager took it away to take down the details, and he said he'd circulate my photo so I assumed he had. I'm not going to go back to that store again (to be honest, I'm only living in this area for another 6 weeks), I just wanted to find out if I could go into another one somewhere else and not be spotted by security. I know what I did was stupid; I've had some issues lately that have led to me doing stupid risks (don't worry, not going to start going in to all of my problems here!), I just don't want this to follow me for the rest of my life.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for any letters from that company. With regards to the driving license, they said they were going to circulate my photo around all of the Sainsbury's in the country so I'd be recognised by security, but is that possible? Obviously I won't go back to the store in question, and probably not even the ones in the local area (there are quite a few where I live), but if I went in to one on the other side of the country, would they really know who I was and ask me to leave? This may seem a bit childish, but I really don't want my parents to find out about this incident, and I don't want to go to the supermarket at home with one of them and have to explain why I can't go in.

Please help! The other day I was caught scanning something as bananas on the self-checkout when they weren't. I was taken to the back room to see the manager, who decided not to call the police (thank God), but did take a copy of my driving licence and aive me a letter banning me from any Sainsbury's in the country. What I want to know is, will anything else happen to me? The letter he gave me mentioned other people who may be getting in touch for some kind of claim. Also, what will have been done to my driving licence? Am I on some kind of register somewhere? Will future employers be told about this? I'm a student, and don't want my career and prospects ruined by this.