Thank you. I do want to contact them but am worried about implicating myself further, especially if they pull up the CCTV footage and see that I did indeed keep things in my bag. Wouldn't want to get the police involved and get into more trouble. I'm annoyed at how the manager treated me and threatened to call the police if I didn't just leave all my shopping with them. He said 'as far as I'm concerned, this is all ours.' I also have reason to believe that he was recording the conversation on his iPhone without my consent, as upon reflection he kept twiddling with his phone during the event. And I'm worried about what he will do with the photo he took of me. Maybe I should just let it go and chalk it up to my stupidity but it's been playing on my mind a lot.

It was the acting manager who told me to leave all my shopping or he would call the police. He was quite rude and intimidating, so I'm worried about how he would respond to this. Could he take any further legal action or contact the police if I got in touch? Also, they took a picture of me with a mobile phone and I was going to ask them about GDPR and if they were allowed to keep a picture of me on file but again was too flustered and mortified to say anything. From what I've read on here they can't share it with staff bit wondering what can be done about that, if anything?

Thank you for your reply. How would I go about doing that? I walked out mortified and am ashamed to show my face and go back in to talk to them. I have the acting manager's name, should I contact them directly to demand a refund or write to head office? Either way, do I have a leg to stand on if I just left everything there and have no proof other than my debit card transaction confirmation? This was a few hours ago now so I imagine they will have put everything back on the shelves or thrown them out.

I got caught shoplifting today at Sainsbury's - not my finest moment for sure. I paid for most of my shopping but left some items in the bag. When I was stopped and taken to the back, I did not have my receipt for them to check the items. I did show them that I'd spent £45 on my shopping with my online bank app which shows the transactions immediately. One of the security guards left to get a printout of my receipt from the till but never came back. Instead, the acting manager came in whilst the other security guard was taking down my details and he told me to leave ALL my shopping there or he would call the police. They then gave me a letter banning me from all Sainsbury's and I left without any of my paid shopping or any of my bags. I was so mortified I did not ask to take my shopping but now I've read on here that I may be contacted for losses, I feel like the manager used extortion and intimidation and I should have been allowed to keep the shopping I'd paid for? Do I just leave it and accept it as a small price to pay for my stupidity or should I try to get a refund on the items Sainsbury's took from me?