This reminds me of a story I have posted before.

I used to work in a local convenience store and everyday for a few weeks we were struck by (what we called) the phantom shopper.

Everyday we would randomly find one of our baskets sitting in the same place. If I remember right it was a bottle of irn bru, a loaf and a jug of milk.

We served a lot of elderly customers so at first we just put it down someone putting it down and forgetting about it. We would actually joke about it and blame each other up to something for a laugh. But as it continued we started to get suspicious.

One day I had got most of my work done everywhere else but where this basket always appeared. I wasted time hanging around but nothing.

After spending at least an hour there I had to use the bathroom. On the way way back to keep watch a coworker joked with me about trying find the culprit. I get back to the spot and its sitting there waiting on me.

Almost kicking myself I decide to try and figure out the bosses diabolical CCTV on his computer. I don't know how he found anything on that thing.

I eventually get to the camera and start jumping back through the time. After sometime messing around with it I find the culprit. I even managed to track them from they entered the shop.

The way the store is setup the traffic would flow to the right upon entering the store. What I found was a woman in her early 20's was going to the left and straight to the alcohol aisle. After putting 2 big bottles of cider in her basket and continue round the store in reverse, putting the same stuff in her basket until she got to the milk.

She would put the basket on the floor at an aisle (out of site from the till) grab the milk, bend down to put the milk in the basket while stuffing the bottles of cider into her own bag and walking out the door.