„Wir brauchen Hilfe“: Arbeiter sagen, Ladendiebstahl sei „außer Kontrolle“, nachdem es zu dreisten Diebstählen kam

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It’s almost as if years of paying your staff the legal minimum whilst operating with the least amount of bodies to function as a retailer, has caused your employees to not give a shit.

Supermarkets are locking everything up now, you have to push a button and wait for an assistant to unlock the spirits in my local Morrisons now. And it still has a tag that needs removed at the checkout.

Of course it’s not new, smaller shops and off licences have had everything valuable behind glass for years. The supermarkets are just learning this is what you need to do as people have caught on there’s no real penalty.

The London Mayor says ” It’s all part of living in a big city”.

Also the Met are hemorrhaging ‘Hundreds’ of officers a month and recruiting single digits……allegedly this has been the case for months and months. Oh and the Commissioner was whining the other day he’s been told to make ‘more’ savings which he says is impossible.

If you live in London I’d suggest getting out asap……

Enjoy.

It was already bad when I was a security guard 10 years ago, even then the police would barely bother to show up even if assaulted in the process of stopping someone. I can’t begin to imagine how bad it must be now.

You could give them the actual name of the very well known person and that person would still be coming into your store every other day kicking off again. The police would only ever take them away and swiftly let them go. They’d often come back on the same day looking for revenge/a fight/to steal again.

There was only one time out of the many hundreds of thieves I dealt with where I actually had to go to court and someone went to prison and that’s because he attacked me with a knife when being stopped stealing a whole shelf worth of goods.

I could only do so much since there is no protective equipment available to a mere security guard and a job like that is not worth your life. I did it way longer than I should have and was in immediate danger many times. Still have some trauma flare up whenever a drug addict gets too close to me to this day.

The amount of times I or a cashier were spat at, assaulted and more was disgusting. I really can’t express how dangerous and brazen it all was.

This really needs nipping in the bud. The poor cashiers I used to work with used to ask me to walk them to their cars at the end of their shifts because they were scared of being attacked by these people.

I used to be scared going to work every day too but had to put on a brave face to try and help others feel safer when really the situation was far beyond my control.

The people I encountered day to day were never stealing out of need/hunger. If they were, I would have happily just let them take a sandwich.

Looks like facial scanning before entering a store will be a thing, if your on a list, your not coming in.

This is what the police should be doing.

Not arresting people for social media posts.

It’s simple. You see a lady not scan her milk at a self serve. Leave her be.

See a crack head filling his bag full of coffee. Let someone know.