Comment on ‘It’s organised looting’: UK in grip of a shoplifting epidemic, say store owners

tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Our local big Sainsbury’s supermarket has installed airport-style barriers everywhere and you now have to queue and scan your receipt to get out.

  The store nearby installed that a while back, and someone just broke the gate down, and honestly I have never been more proud of my community.

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  • h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually when they tried to install electronic locks on the carts so they’d lock up if you went too far away, and the next day someone had stolen all the carts was also a big moment of local pride.

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    • Arrakis@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And I bet that same community rails over the unfairness when the company does a blanket price rise to compensate for the equipment losses. Good job guys, stick it to the man!!

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      • bigboopballs@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        well, I would hope so. we shouldn’t be accepting this shit lying down.

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      • ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The price will raise regardless, because thats’s how monoplies and price cartels work. They just blame their price gouging on the people trying to survive, same as always, and rubes with latent goosetepping instincts believe them, same as always.

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      • h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If they had done that I would hope my community would immediately steal everything not nailed down.

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  • Jabbawacky@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Proud of someone for damaging property? What a shitty community, honestly.

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    • h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Whoever did it saved the rest of us a huge amount of hassle. The only thing hurt was the bottom line of the shop that decided to annoy everyone for no good reason

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    • Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      you sound like a bootlicker

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    • UlyssesT@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      bootlicker

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    • ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      wojak-nooo nooo my heckin private propertinoo, you’re supposed to allow yourself to be corralled into a police state without complaint nooo

      Break every gate, sensor and camera. Take back a tiny alice of your agency in this burning world.

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  sci fi is about the present. Atwood said that everything that happened in The Handmaids Tale happened in real life — just not to white people.

  So too, cyberpunk dystopias were happening while being made. Yes Akira has people with magic powers — but delinquent kids, government experiments on children, a brutalist police force that murders without question: all modern day.

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• rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those gates are so fucking stupid. They barely work, usually one of the two actual gates doesn’t open, and the gates stay open long enough that multiple people can just walk through. I kinda really hate having to prove I’ve just paid for the things I’ve just overpaid for.

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  • h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Plus if you decided not to get something you either have to ask someone to open them, or sneak out otherwise.

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• bigboopballs@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Our local big Sainsbury’s supermarket has installed airport-style barriers everywhere and you now have to queue and scan your receipt to get out.

  what if you didn’t buy anything?

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  • tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not an expert on Sainsburys, really. We just used to shop there. Most of it is self-checkout but they do have 3 or 4 tills with checkout workers down at one end. I guess you could walk through there. Also there’s a security guard who I guess could let you out.

    I only put up with it once - about 3 weeks ago - and haven’t been there since. We’ve done our family shopping there for 15+ years.

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• gadgetzombie@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How does this work if you don’t get a receipt? Haven’t shops been pushing not to print paper receipts for a few years now

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  • tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know. There’s always a queue because the scanner wasn’t reading the receipts properly and wlll only accept the receipt scanned once. We had to be helped through by a shopworker who checked we had paid. It was super-frustrating to wait and the gates were too strong to push through. We’ve just stopped going to Sainsbury’s now and just use our nearest Aldi.

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