Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

What is goady is you title.

If they're prepared to be so brazen about it I can't imagine it would be safe for the staff to challenge them

Interesting that you think a man who you've assumed can handle himself should confront 3 horrendous, under the influence guys.
I'm not sure he would have come out of it well if they'd attacked him, despite his size.

I don't expect the staff to risk themselves, but the police on the other hand.... still, they have their hands full traumatising autistic teenage girls I suppose.

That’s a different argument.

Advocating for everyone to help themselves to free items for shops is not too many steps away from civil arrest, anarchy and curfews. I’d much rather people stopped acting like then have the right to Anything they fancy and join society.

Aldi clearly don’t have this policy. Ours has a young woman as a security guard, I’ve seen her race right out of the store and down the street to catch shoplifters. She’s super fit and strong , but I’d be appalled if my adult daughter had to put herself in this kind of situation for aldi wages, i can’t believe it’s expected of her.

You learn to survive in whatever part of society you live in.

This is not new. Retail employees have been instructed thus since the nineties (possibly before, but I can confirm we were being told to leave any shop lifters in the mid nineties)

This. Not sure how you questioning a member of staff will help - they shouldn’t risk their safety.

Why can’t they invent a system whereby the exit barriers won’t open if they detect security tags. I’m sure it wouldn’t be difficult.

Well.thars,all right then🙄

Not cut enough that 8 officer have got time to harrass a disabled girl for thought crime.

The situation may be ridiculous, but saying this means 'stealing is a human right' is goady nonsense. No one thinks that.

When cost of living goes up, when health care and social care and addiction treatment are not funded, when police are overstretched, people will steal more. Its not rocket science.

Sure Tesco can put their booze behind locks but that's a plaster on bigger problems only the government can fix.

There’s a lot of theft from the shop I work in, and from other businesses in the area. The police do not want to know, every incident is reported to the police and the company I work for, nothing changes and imo that’s why the thefts have increased, it’s brazen and an increasing number of staff have been assaulted along the way.

The staff member you spoke to sounds like someone who has had enough and isn’t prepared to risk their own safety for the sake of the stock. He won’t be the only one.

That’s not the point. It’s stealing.

My male colleagues would prefer the females to challenge as it’s less likely the situation will escalate ( and looks poor for the men if anything does happen).

One of the problems for shop staff is they are busy. Even filling shelves you are focused on getting the stuff out quickly so you don’t notice the people nicking stuff. If you’re on the tills you can’t leave.

The best way is for shops to refuse entry I think ie no more than 3 kids at a time or previous shoplifters banned.

My weekly shop is under £200 so I could then just push the trolley out but as I don’t look like a thug I know I would be stopped as I would be an easy target.

There is a general breaking down of society happened right now infront of us. We are impotent to it happening. Some of us choose to roll our eyes and shrug our shoulders as a coping mechanism. Others throw their hands up in the air furious. Many think it’s ‘no big deal’. But it’s happening. The criminals are winning. The bolder they become the more it will impact your lives abd your children’s lives.

A checkout operator at our local Tesco told me they routinely have people helping themselves to as much ££ steak as they can stuff in a rucksack

As a PP said, cost of living, not enough treatment for ails of society, not enough police = perfect storm

I’ve heard of this a lot recently.

What is the point of having security guards then?

I reported an aggressive guy in the car park of our local Tesco who was threatening and frightening old women in the disabled bays, plus threatening the young female in his car. The security guard came out, had a look then retreated back into the store. 🤷‍♀️

@Pinkitydrinkity 3 bottles of spirits would be like £50? Peanuts to Tesco’s

That's not quite right - (I used to work for Tesco's)

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

If I am stacking shelves with jars of coffee from a case of 12 jars and I drop one and it breaks, that's the whole profit from that case gone.
That is classed as a 'shrinkage' and has to be paid for somehow.

So shoplifters put the price up for everyone else.

There was an interesting segment about this on newsnight the other night. Basically, shoplifters know nothing will happen, so are increasingly brazen- think supermarket sweep type dashes. Blokes from co op was saying it's not necessarily people stealing to feed themselves, but organised and targeted theft, which their security guards can do nothing about.

As an aside, I was once involved with a bloke who believed that bacon and cheese were his human right (yes, he used those words), so he would steal them from our local supermarket because he couldn't afford them. The fact that he couldn't afford them because he was too superior to work like the rest of us escaped him.

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

Bollocks.

People ( usually men because they are very entitled) do it because they can. I used to work with teenage boys that nicked large amounts of booze. They were well fed at home and parents would give them money for lunch and snacks.

It’s nonsense like this that means more people feel they can get away with it. The amount of people nicking stuff because they are hungry is virtually none. It’s perfectly well fed people exploiting open supermarkets, knowing they can’t be searched.