Sometime in the 1980's at John Lewis in Oxford St., 2 chaps go into the carpet department and roll up a 12ft x 9ft Chinese rug, worth around £1000. Tape it up, then over the shoulders and down the escalator and out through the front doors.
I worked in the furnishing fabrics department of JL Oxford Street and we used to hear about that story. Only I was there in 1973
