Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

Genius! 🤣

A nice, middle class woman is an easy target.

Thuggy, aggressive men aren't.

The police won't do anything for ''under £200'' of goods- so that covers a lot of stuff.

Waitrose too , my friend witnessed a big theft {over £200!}- won't say how the thief did it, in case of copy cats, but it's a free for all, it seems.

male security guards should dress as women, engage in conversation with the shoplifters, wait till the shoplifter misgenders them, then call the police. They’d be there straight away!

You do know Lewisham Council aren't responsible for funding the Met, right? Neither is the mayor. Absolutely blame the Tories.

@Combusting I doubt it’s made up I have seen it several times in our southern town !

Are you OK hun?

The Police are too busy arresting 16 year old autistic children. Or the women that attended the Vigil for Sara who was killed by one of their own.

I've no respect for current Policing.

Interesting point of view, and wrong. It has never been the role of store workers to be have a go heroes.

When I worked in retail a good decade ago we were always told if you see shoplifting do NOT approach them. It, simply, wasn't our job to stop it.

That's not to say its a human right - but rather a staff safeguarding issue.

As to whose job it is to deter? I suppose its the job of the police as first line defence, and the company's head office to look at shrinkage as a whole, identify trends and roll out measures to stop.

😂

WTF.

Only people who should carry weapons are police (and even they can’t be trusted not to use them properly). I don’t want to live in a world where some billy boy security guard can taser me if he wishes

This shoplifting is another reason for food price inflation - the insurance costs are passed on to the customers. So we're all paying for these lowlives to get trashed every morning on 'free' booze.

We own a small independent food shop and the lead taken by the big supermarkets of just letting people do this has made our lives easier in some respects and harder in others.

Easier because people don't come to steal so often, harder because when they do they do it with confidence and menace which in 30 years of dealing with shoplifters has never really been a feature.

You will understand that this is likely to be interpreted as a made up story. —which it is— possibly.

Tesco is a billion-pound corporation, it could easily employ security guards to stop this, it could mov alcohol to behind the counter and add security tags to spirits. If Tesco wanted to it could put these measures in place but it doesn’t because it wouldn’t be profitable. In that case if the billion pound corporation doesn’t want to pay out to take measures to secure stock, why should the police do anything? The CEO of Tesco is ‘based in Ireland’ so he doesn’t have to pay any UK tax on his £4mil salary and Tesco has allegedly been involved in tax evasion in the past, why should our tax money go to policing their stores when they could easily afford security?

Remember, to Labour, there is no such thing as bad behavior or a crime. There is only intersectionality and underprivilege. Lefties usually have a dictionary to correct you and tell you what you can and can’t say. You will not be allowed to use the term anti-social soon because it labels people.

Do you expect staff to risk their own well-being to stop a theft from a multinational conglomerate?

It doesn't matter how big the store these scotes are stealing from, this post almost implies it's OK to steal from Tesco. The security staff should have easy access to Tasers, that would stop them quickly enough but then there would be the usual lot bleating that their little cherubs have been hurt!

I saw similar in TKMaxx, I saw a guy fill his rucksack and walk out. I told the security guard and he said they’re not allowed to confront this . It’s totally bizarre.

The councillors can't make more money appear - it is down to Tory cuts, also because the Conservatives underfund Labour run councils as opposed to Conservative ones.

That said, I live in a Conservative-run council area, council tax is among the highest in the country and the town is still an absolute sh*t show for petty crime, drugs, homelessness, pot holes and litter, with communal areas currently looking like a jungle. Oh and you have to pay £50 extra to get your green bin emptied. Absolute jokes.

@KatherineSwynford1403 I was in a shop and saw wanton, brazen theft.

Staff didn't do anything.
It's nuts...It's a shoplifter's dream.

I wouldn't have expected any employee to risk their life challenging 3 large, drunk/high men stealing alcohol.

I do find it incredibly depressing that the police can't be arsed to do anything about crimes like this however, especially crimes by the same people on a daily basis, as demonstrated here, which only emboldens others to do the same.

But SIX officers were available to arrest an autistic teenager for saying something they didn't like and that made perfect sense in her world.

THAT is the problem.

Nope, also in PM’s own constituency.

Happens in my town in the south east too

I absolutely hate how "petty" crimes (which apparently include housebreaking now?) are no longer policed. These crimes and general anti-social behaviour are what make areas, and people's lives, a grinding daily misery while the most aggressive and amoral amongst them swagger around doing exactly what they want, and possibly even claim victim status.

It's especially galling when the same police who have no resources to deal with any of it, apparently have all the time and officers in the world when it comes to harrassing middle-aged women for saying the wrong thing on twitter.

Fuck this society, seriously.

The areas worst affected by antisocial behaviour are in Labour council seats. In certain areas of (Labour-run) SE London, there isn't even a system for dealing with noise complaints. You basically just have to accept that stealing, illegal raves, and intimidation are a human right. If you complain to your Labour councillors, who have been appointed to make your area livable, they just blithely blame "Tory cuts" and do nothing,all the while spending tas payers money on diversity awards for schools, or painting your local centre with rainbow colours.
And yet Londoners keep appointing them, year after year. I could literally bang my head against the wall.