Shoplifting grandmother, 65, pockets up to £500-a-day stealing luxury food and booze to order for up to 60 wealthy clients who are struggling amid cost-of-living crisis

• Grandmother steals champagne and even dog treats amid cost of living crisis 
• Her ‘tight’ clients live in £3million houses in salubrious London neighbourhoods

A grandmother has revealed that she steals luxury items for rich clients and earns up to £500 a day.

The brazen thief, Lou, 65, steals everything from steak, lobster, champagne and even Egyptian cotton sheets.

According to the gran, she has 60 clients who turn to her when they are feeling the pinch from private school fees or mortgage hikes.

Many live in £3million houses in London’s Belgravia and Knightsbridge.

Speaking to The Sun, she said: ‘Business is booming. Everyone wants to save a few quid, no matter what they earn.

Lou said she steals for ‘tight poshos’ who live in multi-million pound properties in London’s Belgravia and Knightsbridge 

‘You’d never think these people would use a shoplifter.

‘They are feeling the pinch so they choose to spend a lot less with me while still getting the same goodies.

‘And yet the poshos really haggle. They’re the tightest with their money.’

Lou, who is a grandmother of five, said she goes out stealing as soon as a customer calls with a ‘shopping list’.

She started with four or five clients but it soon rose to 60 after word of mouth spread.

The former party planner targets posh stores such as Harvey Nichols and Harrods where she gets caviar.

Also, she steals from M&S and Waitrose as she said ‘no one is going to pay me for Aldi’.

But she also nicks luxury items such as Grey Goose vodka and even £14 dog treats.

She added: ‘They also like bottles of champagne. Not Moët but more expensive stuff like Bollinger.

‘Sometimes they just say, ‘Get as many bottles as you can’ which is a dangerous thing to say to me as I do go a bit mad.

‘Alcohol is very hard to get though. A lot of people want Grey Goose vodka.

She also nicks luxury items such as caviar, champagne, Grey Goose vodka and even £14 dog treats

The grandma targets Harvey Nichols, Harrod, M&S and Waitrose because ‘no one is going to pay for Aldi’

‘There’s a lot of toiletries on the lists, dog treats, too. There are nice £14 ones from Selfridges.

‘A heck of a lot of fillet steak, people love that cut. It has to be over £20 though otherwise, it’s not worth taking the risk.’

Lou reportedly turned to shoplifting eight years ago when her husband died.

Her first job was for a mum at her granddaughter’s school and it ‘grew from there’.

It comes amid a crimewave of shoplifting as many stores are adding security tags to household items to deter thieving.

It was reported last week that Aldi even added security tags to 85p sweets because of constant stealing.

Shoplifting as a crime was downgraded by the government in 2014 so stealing goods worth less than £200 is a summary offence, often only bringing a fine of £70.

Although Lou has been caught several times, she has blamed her non-payment on ‘growing forgetful’.

Responding to critics, she said: ‘For those people who want to judge me I say it’s my choice. They aren’t forced to buy stuff off me.’

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