"There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy." - Alfred Henry Lewis
Asking the government for funding for additional security measures is like sticking a plaster on the collapsing wall of the cost of living crisis.
w crime
if shoplifting were really a problem, they would just shut the stores down. corpos always take fraud and theft into account before hand.
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.
As a kid, I always wanted to live in some science fiction futuristic society. I never thought that I'd actually grow up to live somewhere where I had to scan to get out a supermarket only to be under threat of attack by ravaging killer dogs.
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!!
well, I would hope so. we shouldn't be accepting this shit lying down.
Of course, but there's taking action and there's shooting yourself in the foot
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.
Proud of someone for damaging property? What a shitty community, honestly. Guy sounds like a removed.
nooo my heckin private propertinoo, you're supposed to allow yourself to be corralled into a police state without complaint noooBreak every gate, sensor and camera. Take back a tiny slice of your agency in this burning world.
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.
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?
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.
I worked out last night that the points program in my local pub means I have to buy 33 drinks if I want a free drink of equivalent price. That's daylight fuckin robbery mate
I was actually in my local co op last week (edit - time flies, no, it was a few weeks back now!) When a group rushed in, literally ransacked the place - openly filling up their bags, then brazenly quickly walked out. Absolute removed.
Staff couldn't do anything. Said it's happened numerous times before. In this case it was a lot who were parked up on the local field before being evicted and moved on.
This is why people don't want them parking up on the local field before being moved on. They want them to drive past without stopping at all. And they'll fix their own driveways and gutters.
Shop thefts have more than doubled in the past three years
wow, what a crazy point in time for something like this to begin
