GORDON LIGHTFOOT | National
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES
A 40 year old woman from central Auckland turned heads today, as she opted for a shopping basket to carry her groceries as she selected them at Royal Oak Pak n Save.
This was despite having her own tote bag available, which would have physically been able to hold all her groceries as she made her way around the store.
Mika Yousefi told reporters that even though she fully intended to pay for the items, it would be stupid to make security staff at the supermarket believe she was attempting to sneak food into her bag like some kind of shoplifter.
“The tote bag was more for once I’d paid for my groceries and was carrying them out to my car. I was just picking up a few things, probably less than $150 worth, all up,” she said.
“Would be quite weird and stupid to put the groceries in my own bag before paying for them right? Not only would people see me and think I was stealing, but it wastes time for the security people monitoring the CCTV.”
Yousefi shook her head in disbelief at the line of questioning from journalists on the scene.
“I mean, why would you do that? Unless you actually were trying to take groceries out of the store without paying for them.
“And then what happens if you get stopped by security before the checkout? Surely you’d just pay for the groceries right? It’d be pretty suspicious to then leave the store without any of the groceries you’d chosen, wouldn’t it?
“Anyway, I’m just walking around the supermarket with a shopping basket full of items and not looking like I’m trying to steal them. Couldn’t be doing anything more normal!” she laughed.
More to come.
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