Tesco: Taking away without the owner’s permission.<\/p>\n
In the UK, if some yob drives away with your car, you cannot call it ‘stealing’. As the yob does not ‘intend to permanently deprive you of your property’, it is not ‘theft’, it is ‘taking away without the owner’s permission’.<\/p>\n
If you buy petrol from a Tesco petrol station, and Tesco’s credit\/debit card machine screws up and does not complete the transaction, then you may be unpleasantly surprised to discover that the money is ‘locked’ up in your card account, awaiting Tesco’s pleasure, and you can no longer access that cash. If you try to use the card again, and you now have insufficient funds (you had ‘sufficient’ before Tesco’s card machine blew them away into cash card purgatory), you then have to find some other way to pay for the petrol.
\nEmbarassment, awkwardness, holding up a queue, etc. etc. And don’t think of leaving – you would then be accused of ‘stealing’ the petrol that you would have paid for if Tesco had not got it all wrong!<\/p>\n
Tesco’s attitude? After all the stupid excuses …
\n‘You (YOU!) must have taken your card out too quick.’
\n‘It’s the computer’s fault.’
\nYou probably have heard them all before.<\/p>\n
You go to Tesco and complain.
\nIt’s not their fault. They’ve done nothing wrong. It’s your card. You’ll get the money back in 8 ( or 15, or whenever ) days. They have not charged you anything so they have nothing to return to you.<\/p>\n
It is not stealing, but it is ‘taking away without the owner’s permission’.
\nAnd in the car world, that is a criminal offence.<\/p>\n
In Tesco, it’s just tough luck! They are big and you are small.<\/p>\n
I cannot, therefore call Tesco thieves.<\/p>\n
I can call them a store that people should avoid like the plague.
\nI can call them a store that seems not to care for the customer.
\nAnd I can tell this story to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tesco: Taking away without the owner’s permission.<\/p>\n
In the UK, if some yob drives away with your car, you cannot call it ‘stealing’. As the yob does not ‘intend to permanently deprive you of your property’, it is not ‘theft’, it is ‘taking away without the owner’s permission’.<\/p>\n
If you buy petrol from a Tesco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-having-a-say","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tachras.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}