I worked in a shop that was popular and fashionable with a "section of society".
We shared a loading bay with a hotel and a catalogue shop. In this loading bay was a lift that took you down to underneath one of the bridges, where the bins where kept.
A chap I used to work with, that has since passed away, used to have a trick where he would volunteer to take the bins out first thing, about 9.30am. He would then fill one or two bin liners with all the latest street wear. I'm talking thousands of pounds worth of retail value work-wear clothes here. He'd go out the back door in to the shared loading bay, chuck those bags in to the lift with the rest of the rubbish and take it all downstairs to the bins under the bridges. He'd chuck all the rubbish in the bin, and the bags full of clothes underneath the bin.
Come 6pm, he'd leave the shop, walk down the public steps to underneath the bridge, pick up the bags full of clothes and walk home.
He obviously told me about it, but probably only once he had done it once or twice. Who knows how many times he did it, but one pair of work-wear trousers was about £70, even back in 2005.
I never had the bottle to try it myself.
Edit: someone should make a new thread for stories like this.
I worked in a shop that was popular and fashionable with a "section of society".
We shared a loading bay with a hotel and a catalogue shop. In this loading bay was a lift that took you down to underneath one of the bridges, where the bins where kept.
A chap I used to work with, that has since passed away, used to have a trick where he would volunteer to take the bins out first thing, about 9.30am. He would then fill one or two bin liners with all the latest street wear. I'm talking thousands of pounds worth of retail value work-wear clothes here. He'd go out the back door in to the shared loading bay, chuck those bags in to the lift with the rest of the rubbish and take it all downstairs to the bins under the bridges. He'd chuck all the rubbish in the bin, and the bags full of clothes underneath the bin.
Come 6pm, he'd leave the shop, walk down the public steps to underneath the bridge, pick up the bags full of clothes and walk home.
He obviously told me about it, but probably only once he had done it once or twice. Who knows how many times he did it, but one pair of work-wear trousers was about £70, even back in 2005.
I never had the bottle to try it myself.
Edit: someone should make a new thread for stories like this.