Robbing from Tesco with impunity *edited by MNHQ*

This happens where I am too(also a northern town). There is a shop in our local town that isn’t a big chain and they get people stealing all the time., the police don’t care, the whole town centre has windows constantly being smashed, groups of men hanging out drinking on street corners and fighting.
The local police made a big deal about them spending a week where they had some officers out and about in town to solve the problem confiscating booze etc. Of course it was a box ticking exercise and once the week was over normality resumed. We have a huge police station in our town centre too, but they can’t police it.

Security guards should operate the doors and only allow a certain amount of people in at a time or the doors should only open to exit when your loyalty card is scanned imo

And yet when I complained that WHSmith had porn in the children's section I was detained by security and the Police arrived within 10 mins. Odd eh?

Ah yes. Labour. The party of law and order. Fingers crossed they are all over it when they get in.

I feel shops won't survive at this rate. The stance for a lot of big chain stores is don't put your self in danger, get a crime number. - insurance claim.

Small shops get a crime number - insurance.

The police now ignore theft up to £200 pounds.

Some have cutters to get them off. I've been offered a bottle of Jack Daniels with the tag still on. I very impolitely declined.

This is a store management issue.

The manager needs to work with the police.

Also, most stores now have CCTV so the police could use those.

If it bothers you, email the manager, and the CEO of Tesco (Head Office- email address is online and you WILL get a holding reply from the person monitoring those emails - I've done it for another issue, and it was sorted.)

Also consider contacting your local paper.

they will allow these rats to steal alcohol but they will arrest women for stealing nappies , formula and food for their kids
sounds about right

Look at tictok for example they no longer care about alarms or been seen. Insurance go's up or you lose stock and money.

I wonder if we will move to a society where it is home delivery only for your groceries. Although maybe then the thieves will target the delivery vans.

I used to visit a "bottle shop" where you could see all the wine/spirits but it was behind a "cage" and the staff members selected it for you.

Is it Australia where you can't buy alcohol in a supermarket? I wonder if Tesco's UK dare take that decision.

And yet the police have resources to arrest people for praying silently, or interview people for posting anti-woke tweets, or send in an entire squad to seize someone's collection of gollywogs.

I think let’s see how far this shit goes. A social policy experiment if you will.

Let’s fawn to the all those who demand to be treated as victims. Submit to those who commit crime and arrest those who disagree with the bourgeoisie.

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.

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.

Happens in my town in the south east too

Nope, also in PM’s own constituency.

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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

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.