Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

Good for them. We're the idiots paying for stuff at Tesco when they are robbing us blind for profit while claiming they have to raise prices because of inflation.

Crime is legal now, thanks to thirteen years of Tory rule axing police funding.
My local force don't even bother to investigate most domestic burglaries; they'll give even less of a shit about shop lifting.
And even if someone did get nicked, the courts have been so massively underfunded, the perpetrators would likely be waiting about 2 years for a magistrates' court appearance.

they don't get paid enough to be challenging people like this if i worked there i wouldn't care either tbh

I don't know why anyone is surprised after all for the last 25 years instead of raising children to do as they are told we have raised entitled children who are the centre of the universe, they have been indulged and very rarely disciplined. The system has bent over backwards to be so inclusive it is ridiculous. Grown adults now act like children ( stupid little dances on thicktox) and expect everyone to run after them because they have anxiety, a poorly finger, issues with conforming to social norms. Too many feel so bloody entitled. We made the society we have and it will only get worse.

I was so outraged two years ago in a New York chemist to see that whole sections of higher priced and most wanted on the theft list items (shampoos, face creams, nothing crazy expensive) padlocked plastic protector on the shelves. Couldn't believe that shop lifting was so rife in the city. Depressing that we have reached that state.

When I was a student I worked in a Spar in a REALLY rough area of town. I never challenged shoplifters. I earned £3.50 per hour, why would I risk a punch in the face so someone didn’t nick a packet of crisps?!

Yes that’s a small margin. Do you know what margin is? Look it up.

Do you not watch any news/social media? Videos of thieves stealing stuff and terrorising staff with abandon in the USA whilst security standby are posted almost every day on twitter/tiktok. They don't even hide their faces anymore as they know that nothing will happen to them and they are basically untouchable. It was only a matter of time until it started here. Oxford Street was great in the 90s. I wouldn't bother going there these days.

He probably couldn’t be arsed with a busybody making his nightmare job even more of a nightmare.

Its Friday - relax!

It's the same at my local Co-op. They have regulars who brazenly steal their weekly shop. The staff have been instructed not to intervene in any way as it's not worth the risk of being killed or injured. The Tesco next door has security guards with body cams.

Like PP said shop staff should call the police and say that the shoplifter misgendered them. The blue lights would come racing across the town then.

@Elieenmorrigan
"In order to stay competitive in the marketplace Tesco's (and other supermarkets) operate on very small profit margins"

Lol. Tesco made £753m profit last year.

Hi,
I work in a supermarket and we aren't allowed to touch them! If a manager doesn't see, we can't even challenge

Indeed I live in a rough area and you get people knocking on the door trying to sell steaks ,legs of lamb etc that have clearly been shop.lifted ,its not to.feed their starving children like the bleeding hearts on mumsnet,would like to believe more like to.feed a habit .

This.

I wouldn't waste my time or energy giving a shit about this OP.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ph5q/newsnight-shoplifting-blight-what-can-be-done

Someone needs to persuade one of these louts to misgender someone in Tesco. Then the police (especially if you are in West Yorkshire) will be down on them like a tonne of bricks. Because "non crime hate incidents" and other utter bollocks is all the police are interested in these days.

The alarms go off for a bit I imagine?!

@HowDoYouSolveAProblemLikeMariaa Recent research shows the big four supermarkets are making excess profits and benefiting off the cost of living crisis by not passing savings on.

I can't comment on that. I can only repeat what I was told during my induction.

Maybe you can post a link to the 'recent research' you mention?

There has been loads on the news this week about this, across the UK.
Feels ‘lawless’, becoming a ‘help yourself’ acceptance.

Not very much of it is down to people struggling. It is about organised crime, drug/alcohol abuse and lack of services including the police.

Shop staff should not be put in danger.

I really fear for our country.

You would think so. But the store has no say in having security. We have only recently got a guard back and that has taken many months.

That's easy for these people to navigate, you keep one person behind the barrier and hand the bottle to them, or just climb over the barrier.

13 years of Tory Britain

The people who defend this are morons who don’t realise that they are paying higher prices in the shops as a result of this. The governments and police choosing not to defend this is basically a form of socialism. Or Marxism to be more precise. As Anarchy quite often is.

Because then you'll get all the entitled customers accusing the supermarkets of treating everyone like thieves and it won't work as it will inconvenience the regular customers.

Look at Sainsbury's, they have installed gates on some of their self scan areas so you have to scan your receipt for the gate to open so you can leave. This is in order to deter shoplifters who were just walking straight through the self scan area to leave without paying. So many keyboard warriors have been up in arms about the fact they refuse to scan their reciepts to prove they aren't a shoplifter as supermarkets shouldn't treat everyone like a thief, thereby undermining the supermarkets attempts to reduce thefts ... They'll be the same people complaining that the prices are going up due to thefts.

People saying "lock it up" - that means regular customers will have to wait for a member of staff to come and unlock the cabinet whenever they want something, taking time away from the customer and from the staff member doing other jobs. Also as this would be a permanent situation, not just at 9am when the little scroats come in but at all times during the shop being open, then you'd get situations where customers a re kicking off because they're having to wait for service because the staff are busy opening the cabinet so Dave can get his cheap bottle of daily vodka at 5pm during the evening rush

People saying "don't stock the shelves till after they've come" -firstly that's just not logistically possible as they won't sell out of everything every day so the shelves won't be empty - should staff be emptying them and refilling them repeatedly through the day? - and secondly thieves may be idiotic but they aren't idiots, they'll just wait until the time the shelves are stocked and steal them then, or will steal other high value items just for the craic, or will just cause other problems, meanwhile other customers can't buy things they want as the shelves are empty and then they can't get served because the staff are busy taking stuff off the shelves because "It's almost 9am and the shoplifters will be here soon"