I DON’T believe stealing someone’s food from their doorstep is the lowest of the low, but it comes pretty close (Letters, May 11).

I feel people who order doorstep deliveries of food shopping should make provisions for delivery to a neighbour or friend instead.

It would be nice to live as people did back in the 1960s and 70s, when you could leave your door unlocked and not worry about thieves. Sadly, that’s not possible now.

If the food was stolen to feed a family, what does that say about our society?

If it was stolen to buy drugs or alcohol, we should acknowledge that this happens in Brighton and Hove. I’m sure it does elsewhere.

Recently, I was in a supermarket in Brighton and looked at the cost of economy food. To my surprise, I found there to be only a few pence difference between this “cheaper” food and its premium equivalent.

How can families and single people survive when incomes are lower than the rise in food produce?

Another time, I saw a sign outside a shop saying, “Support your local traders”. I went in to buy some locally-baked bread – it cost £1.60 a loaf! Bread for goodness sake – our staple food. At that price, locally, it’s too expensive.

To steal someone’s doorstep food is not the lowest of the low. But to increase food and fuel prices in such tough times is.

Stephan Bennett, Montague Street, Kemp Town