Dear Jac: Self-service stores will always be tempting to thieves. But are there double standards at work?

I frequently hear stories about inventive crooks. Amjad Farooq, who runs a Booker Premier at Bolton in Lancashire, offered me a good example. He has traded in the Halliwell area for 18 years and has suffered plenty of petty thievery. But this one was different. A ‘gent’ came into the ...