Shoplifting on the rise

[brogdale]

self service tills at our local Aldi now require staff verification for loose bananas.
as a "high risk item" says the on screen display. not cos they've suddenly become alcoholic.

amazing.

The cunts are trying to stop me buying my cheap “courgettes”

 

[InArduisFouette]

Eventually, the capitalists tire of not making a profit and they pull the stores in vulnerable neighborhoods. That leaves older people especially needing a place to get groceries or prescriptions. What's your plan for replacing these entities?

ironically this dash out of these areas is driven, of course, by the curd pork product resembling hypocrites whinging about 15 minute neighbourhood being some WHO/NWO/WEF/Lizard plan to control in one breath and then bemoaning the death of the traditional high st in the next encourage this

 

[nogojones]

Eventually, the capitalists tire of not making a profit and they pull the stores in vulnerable neighborhoods. That leaves older people especially needing a place to get groceries or prescriptions. What's your plan for replacing these entities?

Nationalise the supermarkets without compensation

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Nationalise the supermarkets without compensation

I was thinking something along the lines of mutual aid projects to run grocery stores, but I'm open to any model that works. A growing number of stores in rural areas have taken to food Co-ops to keep a store open in small towns where they have been driven out of business by Walmart, Shopco, etc. Then, abandoned by these same stores as unprofitable. That's how a lot of rural communities function with farmer's co-ops, and marketing agreements. Moving into food co-ops would be a natural extension of an existing model. We just won't tell them that its "small 's' socialism", ok?

 

[GarveyLives]

They imprison self-servers at my local big Sainsbury’s too.

In the huge Sainsburys in Cobham, the self service checkout area now has barriers where you cant get out until you have scanned your receipt, almost like a holding pen.

the sainsburys near wokingham has had them for a few months.

I noticed the sainsburys near me has put up new barriers by the exit so you are forced to walk through a small gap in the middle. I guess to make it easier for the security guard to watch people leaving the store.

"A serial shoplifter has been banned from every Sainsbury’s in the UK after stealing £2,500 worth of meat and cheese. Joseph Tait, 38, repeatedly targeted two supermarkets over the past few months ..."

A shoplifter has been banned from setting foot inside every Sainsbury’s store in the country after he plagued two Newcastle branches with his persistent thefts.

In recent months, 38-year-old Joseph Tait targeted two Sainsbury’s Local stores, on Heaton Road and Chillingham Road, taking meat products, cheese and drinks among other items.

The total financial cost to the stores is estimated at £2,500:

Thief banned from every Sainsbury's in UK after stealing £2,500 of meat and cheese

(Source: Northumbria Police)

Joseph Tait has numerous convictions for theft, burglary and possession of drugs.​

 

[phildwyer]

A shoplifter has been banned from setting foot inside every Sainsbury’s store in the country after he plagued two Newcastle branches with his persistent thefts.

In recent months, 38-year-old Joseph Tait targeted two Sainsbury’s Local stores, on Heaton Road and Chillingham Road, taking meat products, cheese and drinks among other items.

The total financial cost to the stores is estimated at £2,500:

Thief banned from every Sainsbury's in UK after stealing £2,500 of meat and cheese

(Source: Northumbria Police)

Joseph Tait has numerous convictions for theft, burglary and possession of drugs.​

Meat and cheese? The guy is just trying to keep himself alive ffs. What's the point of imprisoning people like this?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Meat and cheese? The guy is just trying to keep himself alive ffs. What's the point of imprisoning people like this?

He hasn’t been imprisoned. Just banned from Sainsbury’s for two years.

 

[emanymton]

He hasn’t been imprisoned. Just banned from Sainsbury’s for two years.

And he is not stealing it to eat it but to sell it.

 

[phildwyer]

He hasn’t been imprisoned. Just banned from Sainsbury’s for two years.

Oh right. Spose he got off lightly then. He'd do 30 years in the USA.

 

[Elpenor]

Wood Green Morrisons last weekend - a lot of the booze was behind some sort of glass door which seemed to be locked, barriers to get out of the self service tills too.

I didn’t want the hassle of finding someone to free the wine from the glass prison so in the end I just walked out

 

[TopCat]

It's pretty dire, tbf.

I love the person who let the seagull out.

 

[TopCat]

Wood Green Morrisons last weekend - a lot of the booze was behind some sort of glass door which seemed to be locked, barriers to get out of the self service tills too.

I didn’t want the hassle of finding someone to free the wine from the glass prison so in the end I just walked out

About thirty years back I lived in north Peckham and the local offy had all the stock behind laminated ballistic glass. You had to put your money in a hatch. Because of the security they had no thefts and consequently the cheapest prices in south london.

 

[teuchter]

About thirty years back I lived in north Peckham and the local offy had all the stock behind laminated ballistic glass. You had to put your money in a hatch. Because of the security they had no thefts and consequently the cheapest prices in south london.

This seems to contradict traditional urban75 monothought orthodoxy that shoplifting has no effect on prices.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

About thirty years back I lived in north Peckham and the local offy had all the stock behind laminated ballistic glass. You had to put your money in a hatch. Because of the security they had no thefts and consequently the cheapest prices in south london.

Remember some offies like that 20-30 years back too. Bit weird buying stuff from them mind - like some throwback to the past before self-service was invented.

 

[Calamity1971]

Remember some offies like that 20-30 years back too. Bit weird buying stuff from them mind - like some throwback to the past before self-service was invented.

Went back to knowsley not long back when my mate died. They had them in huyton ( was a guy skinning up on the stand you do your lottery tickets like it was the norm) . More surprising was Prescot, which was the more afffluent part of knowsley has now gone the same with the laminated stuff. It has always been a forgotten and ignored borough, but it felt like I was in a mad max film. Fuck Gillian Keegan and her ilk.

 

[Elpenor]

About thirty years back I lived in north Peckham and the local offy had all the stock behind laminated ballistic glass. You had to put your money in a hatch. Because of the security they had no thefts and consequently the cheapest prices in south london.

Saw offies like that in the Wirral, one also had a height chart by the door so they could say you’re were 5 foot 8 or whatever,

 

[nogojones]

I love the person who let the seagull out.

But not the hobby bobby that tried to make it go back in to pay

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

About thirty years back I lived in north Peckham and the local offy had all the stock behind laminated ballistic glass. You had to put your money in a hatch. Because of the security they had no thefts and consequently the cheapest prices in south london.

I remember the Herne Hill branch of Threshers (not what you'd consider the wild west) used to have a sort of airlock system on the door where they'd buzz you in, then you had to ask for whatever you wanted to be passed through a little hatch. This is back when I moved there in 2003. Seemed well OTT but apparently they had been robbed a few times.

 

[phildwyer]

There was one on Avenue D, where you'd stand in the lobby of an apartment building and they'd lower a paper cup on a string from the stairwell above. No shoplifting from those lads.

 

[ska invita]

I remember the Herne Hill branch of Threshers (not what you'd consider the wild west) used to have a sort of airlock system on the door where they'd buzz you in, then you had to ask for whatever you wanted to be passed through a little hatch. This is back when I moved there in 2003. Seemed well OTT but apparently they had been robbed a few times.

i worked in Oddbins in Dulwich Village for a time...the manager really didnt like me but kept me on as token security as if i would do anything.... it got robbed regularly at that time....

 

[TopCat]

Those type of off licence (threshers, oddbins etc) got done so often they don’t exist any more.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

About thirty years back I lived in north Peckham and the local offy had all the stock behind laminated ballistic glass. You had to put your money in a hatch. Because of the security they had no thefts and consequently the cheapest prices in south london.

Even way out in the hinterlands here you're seeing everything go behind locked glass. They started with the laundry soap, moved to baby formula and razors, and now its entire aisles. I can't blame them. They look like fools for letting entire cartful's roll out the door while they watch. There's reasons why they just let people go, but nearly everyone hates looking stupid on camera.

 

[DotCommunist]

About thirty years back I lived in north Peckham and the local offy had all the stock behind laminated ballistic glass. You had to put your money in a hatch. Because of the security they had no thefts and consequently the cheapest prices in south london.

theres a late offy in Corby thats the same, completely enclosed. First one I'd ever seen outside of films. Parts of Corby were that way before the 2008 crash, before the cuts and all of that.

 

[Silas Loom]

Argos were keeping their customers away from the merch decades ago.

 

[TopCat]

I live on a big housing estate and we have one Sainsbury’s local that got put in seven years back. It’s a long walk to other shops. Our sainsburys gets robbed by wankers regularly. It carries low stock, short range of goods and hides the baskets. People wait for the security to go on break. I don’t like the abuse the staff endure.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I live on a big housing estate and we have one Sainsbury’s local that got put in seven years back. It’s a long walk to other shops. Our sainsburys gets robbed by wankers regularly. It carries low stock, short range of goods and hides the baskets. People wait for the security to go on break. I don’t like the abuse the staff endure.

Sadly, they'll probably close the store and then it'll be back to long walk to other shops.

 

[bcuster]

Are fears of a shoplifting surge running away from the facts?

Retailers say they’re struggling with a dramatic increase in theft, but it’s surprisingly hard to tell how bad it might be.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[GarveyLives]

Alexandru Cercel, formerly of Homestead Road, Dagenham, has been jailed for his part in an organised shoplifting gang that stole at least £34,500 worth of champagne and spirits from multiple supermarkets. Together with his accomplices, Alexandru Cercel targeted stores including Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, and Sainsbury’s between October 2021 and June 2023.

Alcohol worth up to £3,000 was stolen in each raid, the gang sometimes returning to the same store up to five times on the same day to empty its shelves. Alexandru Cercel was arrested at Dover docks trying to leave the country as a wanted man on 1 July 2023:

Gang member who helped steal £34,500 of alcohol jailed

(Source: Norfolk Constabulary)​

Alexandru Cercel asked for 26 other thefts to be taken into consideration, in addition to the 8 offences to which he pleaded guilty.

Jailing him for two years, the judge said the thefts were likely motivated to fund other criminal enterprises and that the method used indicated “highly organised and planned offending.”

 

[klang]

how does one steal so many (presumably) tagged bottles from a supermarket? 5 times a day? asking for a friend.....

 

[klang]

no idea how much champagne is, but if a bottle is 30 quid, that would have been 100 bottles / raid, 5 times a day? how big was the gang?