Security guard following me

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I am probably overthinking this, but here goes-i have shopped at my local supermarket for 20 years.Everytime there is a new security guard,I get followed.Without fail .Yesterday there was a new security guard.As soon as I walked in,she walked passed me and brushed into my arm.I imagine this was for me to make sure she had clocked me.When I paid she walked down to the till and stood at the end of the till glaring,and I mean GLARING at me.It was enough to put me off what I was doing.I know everyone will say if you are not shoplifting you have nothing to worry about,but that doesn't warrant me being followed every single time.What would others do?say something?leave it go?email a complaint?I'm so annoyed and a little upset today.She really was intimating.

They are trained to read people as not everyone who looks dodgy steals, but the way people act give alot away.

And importantly for their profession, not everyone who "doesn't look dodgy" (what is that, even?) doesn't steal. I've spoken to a relative who used to be a security guard about this quite recently, due to a thread on another forum, and they said that the training is often short and quite poor, and what is taught by some providers of the training is pseudopsychology.

They shouldn't be touching you for no reason, OP, and it does sound like you are being profiled, perhaps on a protected characteristic perhaps not, to the extent that may or may not be unlawful.

Yeah fair point.

Admittedly I do shop around a bit so I am not regularly in the same shop same time every week but I honestly don't think that many shop workers would jump up and vouch for me. There is one who I would say hello to if I see her on a till, but her dc was in the same primary school, although a lot younger, as mine so a vague acquaintance outside of shopping, I wouldn't expect her to side with me just because of that. There might be a few others who I might recognise but I am sure to them I am just another random middle aged woman who happens to come into the shop they work in. I am always polite and would wish them a good day but I wouldn't expect any of them to particularly vouch for me. I do live in a fairly big town with another one nearby and there must be thousands visiting each shop every day.