‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners
‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners
Shop thefts have more than doubled in the past three years, costing retailers £953m a year, according to the British Retail Consortium
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Our local big Sainsbury's supermarket has installed airport-style barriers everywhere and you now have to queue and scan your receipt to get out.
As a kid, I always wanted to live in some science fiction futuristic society. I never thought that I'd actually grow up to live somewhere where I had to scan to get out a supermarket only to be under threat of attack by ravaging killer dogs.
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well, I would hope so. we shouldn't be accepting this shit lying down.
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The price will raise regardless, because thats's how monoplies and price cartels work. They just blame their price gouging on the people trying to survive, same as always, and rubes with latent goosetepping instincts believe them, same as always.
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Proud of someone for damaging property? What a shitty community, honestly. Guy sounds like a cunt.
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you sound like a bootlicker
nooo my heckin private propertinoo, you're supposed to allow yourself to be corralled into a police state without complaint noooBreak every gate, sensor and camera. Take back a tiny slice of your agency in this burning world.
sci fi is about the present. Atwood said that everything that happened in The Handmaids Tale happened in real life — just not to white people.
So too, cyberpunk dystopias were happening while being made. Yes Akira has people with magic powers — but delinquent kids, government experiments on children, a brutalist police force that murders without question: all modern day.
Those gates are so fucking stupid. They barely work, usually one of the two actual gates doesn't open, and the gates stay open long enough that multiple people can just walk through. I kinda really hate having to prove I've just paid for the things I've just overpaid for.
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Our local big Sainsbury's supermarket has installed airport-style barriers everywhere and you now have to queue and scan your receipt to get out.
what if you didn't buy anything?
I’m not an expert on Sainsburys, really. We just used to shop there. Most of it is self-checkout but they do have 3 or 4 tills with checkout workers down at one end. I guess you could walk through there. Also there’s a security guard who I guess could let you out.
I only put up with it once - about 3 weeks ago - and haven’t been there since. We’ve done our family shopping there for 15+ years.
How does this work if you don't get a receipt? Haven't shops been pushing not to print paper receipts for a few years now
I don't know. There's always a queue because the scanner wasn't reading the receipts properly and wlll only accept the receipt scanned once. We had to be helped through by a shopworker who checked we had paid. It was super-frustrating to wait and the gates were too strong to push through. We've just stopped going to Sainsbury's now and just use our nearest Aldi.