Is it OK to eat supermarket food before paying?

After a mum sparked controversy by admitting to eating food off the shelves on her way to the checkout, we ask...

- WORDS: JOHANNA BELL, KELLY ROSE BRADFORD.

YES

'We always pay at the end so what's the problem?'

Johanna Bell, 42, lives in Woodbridge, Suffolk, with her husband and their two daughters.

If you'd asked me eight years ago, I'd have said a firm 'no'. I was always horrified to see supermarket shoppers open packets of crisps and biscuits to shovel in their mouths. Why couldn't they wait until they got home - or, at least, paid?

But after I had a baby, in 2017, my opinion changed drastically. When Emma was tiny, fitting supermarket trips around feeding times was easy, as I was on maternity leave.