Morisson's appear to be collecting idiots.

[talkToTheHat]

My bike is quite often used for supermarket runs. I call into the Balby store when I'm passing as it's one of the better ones. Particularly for pies and cakes, and unlike York and Huddersfield, the loos are not some kind of disaster area. All was good until the one member of staff decided that black leathers and an old twin made me a some kind of thief. I wouldn't mind if I'd tripped an alarm, had been concealing my identity in the store or had otherwise been acting suspiciously.

Here's what I wrote into both the store manager (who has not replied) and copied to their customer services.

[Al]

Your letter drags on a bit about a load of irrelevant stuff.

They probably got half way through and just said 'fuck it, send the man some vouchers and say sorry' hence the mistake thinking you were using the petrol station.
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[Clutchy]

Meh, he had a job to do but could of handled it better.



Anyway mr. petrol thief, you got free vouchers!


How much?
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[Raffles]

BCF does seem to have an inordinate number of suspected shoplifters.
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[Ben90]

[LaurenceR46]

[talkToTheHat]

two £10 vouchers, so twice my average fuelling.

Currently contemplating the best way to take the piss. I think bagging every item in a separate carrier bag might be too much like effort.

[yen_powell]

It was probably all just a silly mistake. Do you look like this for instance?
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[CaNsA]

Morrisons staff are retarded.

I was told to remove my lid and to get off my bike before they would turn the pump on because...

[G]

My (very) recent letter to Morrisons:

[LaurenceR46]

[ScaredyCat]

Mk1GSF thinks you're guilty anyway - no smoke without fire and all that. The fact that you produced a receipt is irrelevant, you probably printed it on one of the cash registers you stole the last time you were there. In fact you probably worked out what you wanted and what time you'd get out again and preprinted the receipt.

You look like a wrong un...
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[CaNsA]

[stinkwheel]

Letter of complain should have three parts.

1) What happened. -A statement of fact.

2) Why this is a problem. -How you feel about it.

3) What action they should take. - What you want them to do about it.

If it is an isssue which might involve future legal action add 4) When you want this to be done by.

So if I'd written your letter, expressing your concerns, it would have been more like this:

I shop regularly at the new Balby store.

On Friday (11/4/2014) afternoon I called in at the store. I had a nice chat with the lady at the checkout. I then stopped at the kiosk on the way out to buy some stamps. I had just left the store to load my bike when I noticed there was a police car parked outside the store again. I remember wondering whether the store had a shoplifting problem as I had seen a police car parked in the same place the last time I was at the store.

I was approached by a member of staff in the carpark. First he asked me whether I had been offered carrier bags at the checkout. I told him that I did not need any. He then asked to see my receipt and starts babbling about how he'd seen me visit the kiosk but not go through the checkouts. He then started going on and on and on about catching shoplifters. Apparently he'd caught someone that morning and was feeling most proud of himself.

I was a little upset about this and asked him if he was accusing me of shoplifting because of my care for the environment, or because I rode a motorcycle. He didn't have an answer for that beyond demanding my receipt again. It took me a while to find as there are many pockets in my leathers and more than a few old Morrison's receipts crumpled up here and there.

Eventually I found the correct receipt. The staff member continued his lines of conversation about the shoplifter he caught, how useless he thought the people employed by the store to actually handle security were, and the tensile strength of carrier bags. When he finally left me alone, the police car left.

I would like to know whether your staff are trained to perform such actions, particularly profiling customers by their degree of environmentalism and choice of transport. I'd also like to know why regular staff are doing this when the store apparently retains dedicated security staff.

I'm not sure your member of staff quite grasped the idea that having effectively accused a customer of leaving without paying, the correct course of action would be to offer an immediate and sincere appology for trespassing on both my time and reputation.

Furthermore I am concerned about the police presence in the vicinity of the motorcycle parking bay co-inciding with my attendance to your store on more than one occasion.

I eagerly anticipate your appology on behalf of your staff member. I would also appreciate your undertaking that the importance of diplomacy and tact will be stressed in future training of staff to deal with suspected cases of shoplifting. Finally I would like your assurance that you have not erroneously passed my details to the police in respect of this matter.

I enclose a photocopy of my collection of receipts from that day.

However, if it had been me in your situation, I would have ignored him entirely once I'd picked up the gist of what he was on about, got back on my bike and ridden away.
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[thx1138]

[Northern Monkey]

It is possible to make a freedom of information act request to the police force to whom the call was raised.

They must divulge any information that is held on you, which may include searches carried out on you as part of the incident, calls made and any video taken.

An organisation is obligated to ensure that any information that is recorded and passed over any electronic means is factually correct.

If the reporting party is not passing factually correct information to 3rd parties, and you have proof of this, then you can make a complaint to the information commissioner.

All big companies are shit scared of the information commissioner.

Keep receipts of any costs incurred in the process of ensuring that no incorrect information is held about you, and use these to make a claim to the small claims court to ensure youre not out of pocket
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[LaurenceR46]

[Sparkss]

I believe that they find anybody without carrier bags suspicious as the gent who stopped the other day explained, it was plausible that I just chucked all the stuff in the trolley and headed for the door so I thought fair play and this was at Asda and I had my car with me.
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[CaNsA]

[talkToTheHat]

Northern Monkey: Already on it

[The Shaggy D.A.]

I'd accuse Numpty McEagerton of persecuting you every time you visit, ask to see the manager and let him know how distressed you are. Then start shoplifting there.
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[Northern Monkey]

[lihp]

[covent.gardens]

Supermarkets have coppers there all the time. Paranoia if you think they were there just because you were. They would have spoken to you at the time if they were there for you.

[lihp]