Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

And who is raising this ever-growing crop of wasters??

We really need less careless & thoughtless procreation. People like this generally don't come from stable, respectful and enthusiastic parenting situations.

DH and I saw a large group of foreign students ( backpacks with language school logos) stealing, we alerted staff in tesco who said there was nothing they could do as they can't recover from them.

I get that - but all companies haemorrhage money in lots of ways.

Would you on your pay of £11.02/hour have challenged these 3 men over £50?

Surely it would be cheaper to employ a second security guard to do the early shift.

And that’s the argument that makes people who are shoplifting feel justified to do so.

‘what did you say to yourself to make it okay to steal?’ ‘I said they make enough profits, they deserve it’.

It's all over the country now OP

I haven't seen much news but my sister tells me the police are doing similar to San Francisco now - they won't bother with a theft under $200 over there, she says the police have made a similar announcement here?

My bestie lives in Brixton and is surprised that my local supermarket doesn't have the alcohol locked away.

It does feel as if the governments across the world will do nothing, make of that what you will.

This is normal now. That how far this country has sunk. Basically, the police are more concerned about attending the local pride event than dealing with crime. Or policing people’s social media for non crime hate speech. And you are not allowed to use the word criminal to describe a criminal. They must be underprivileged victim of some sort:

Weirdly it’s the opposite in my local Tesco! I’ve seen people steal a few times in there and they always go after them. I once saw them refuse to let a homeless man go until he handed back a bottle of coke that he had stole

Lastly supermarkets aren’t charities. They compete against each other hence prices are whatever gives them best profits versus market share.

What is an excess profit? Who is deciding how much is too much?

Pinching stuff from Tesco as some sort of socialist cause is ridiculous. Start your own low profit supermarket if that’s the way forward. Tesco pay and treat staff fairly. They donate the surplus food to charity at the end of every day.

At no point did I say it was ok. I used to be one of these poor fuckers in retail. We are not paid enough to risk challenging people, no.

Just that the information that Tesco etc are on their bare bones is incorrect. I have limited sympathy for the company but plenty for overworked underpaid staff. It doesn't mean I steal, it just means I'm not going to feel sorry for a company that is bleeding British dry.

As I said previously, there have always been lifters. Was ever thus.

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"

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.

13 years of Tory Britain

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.

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.

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.

@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?

The alarms go off for a bit I imagine?!

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.

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

This.

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

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 .

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