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    Woolworths shoppers concerned new anti-theft gates may trap them and hit their children | Woolworths
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    Woolworths shoppers concerned new anti-theft gates may trap them and hit their children | Woolworths

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    2. Transientmind on

      So how does this get around deprivation of liberty? If a human unlawfully detains you without warrant it’s deprivation of liberty but if humans build a machine to do it it’s fine? Can we extend this to other crimes?

    3. potatostomach on

      Yeah my wife got hit in the shin. Apparently she’s never shopping at Woolies again.

      Edit: might have been her knee. I don’t know; she was angry, lol

    7. spookysadghoul on

      Woolworths wants to combat theft but still price gouge customers.

      Imagine someone getting really hurt, law suit for woolworths. Would the money they saved from stopping theft really be worth it?

    8. TheForceWithin on

      At this point why not just put barbed wire and you have to commando crawl underneath to enter.

      I shouldn’t have given them this idea.

    10. Wallabycartel on

      If you have a pram they seem dangerous. Have nearly had it close on the pram a couple of times now.

    11. Ok-Limit-9726 on

      With 16% profit margin this year,

      How about get fucked woolies

      Get rid of the self serve, hire security guards at exit, not kid harming devices

    12. TPE_FieldsOfGold on

      aussies getting the sheep treatment, just give them more MAFS 😆😆😆😆

    13. Long_Mango2862 on

      How are those touchy feely sticks even hygienic. Have a nice day, take the bugs of everyone else that touched these with ya!

    14. itrivers on

      The simple truth is they don’t care. They work for the intended purpose which is stopping thieves from walking out the entrance with a full trolley of goods.

      As long as their sales aren’t taking a beating and it’s stopping thieves they don’t care, because the simple math equation is working for them. That’s all these corporate ghouls care about. Complaining doesn’t help at all. The only way to win is not to play. Vote with your wallet and go somewhere else. But I see it every day, people will complain about rising prices and anti-consumer tactics while standing in the shop, giving them business.

    16. Bob_Spud on

      How are these going to operate when in an emergency. Another fire escape death trap?

      The current retracting sliding barriers can be pushed aside in an emergency.

    17. RareSeaworthiness870 on

      But why isn’t anyone thinking of the corporate profits? Or <gasp> the shareholder interests?

    18. GrandRoyal_01 on

      Maybe their children deserve to be hit?

      Like the old saying “spare the rod, spoil the child”.

      /s – just in case 

    19. eversible_pharynx on

      As long as Woolies gets the percentage of trapped children down to an acceptable percentage, it’s all good! This means less theft for Woolies, more profits for them, which is good! Remember it’s so they can improve the shopping experience for the customer! If Woolies wins we all win! Good!

    20. Illustrious-Crow-331 on

      They really don’t have an inviting vibe. My woolies have the perspex gates that glow. You feel welcomed by them, these new gates say please don’t shop here.

    21. kombiwombi on

      As silly as it sounds, the answer is for state governments to legislate against entry gates which whack people.

      That it’s come to this…

    22. avag00daye on

      These are literally so physically and ethically gross. It’s giving cattle being herded on a station vibes.

      My local Aldi now has a glass security gate to exit the self-serve checkout area. After you pay for your items, you get a small receipt with a barcode on it, and you have to scan the barcode to open the gate. Absolutely ridiculous.

    23. tal_itha on

      wtf is wrong with the entry gates that open via sensor detection on one side only and already exist?!?!

      If you even need to use entry gates which is debatable in the first place.

    24. OptimusRex on

      You’d be stupid to steal them walk out the enterance anyway, better to buy something and walk out with other stuff. Bit of misdirection etc.

    26. frankestofshadows on

      I had to attend a customer service training for a job I do. They were all about, “making sure the customer has the best experience and going out of your way to do it”. Nothing that no one hasn’t said over the last few decades. Another corporate speaker using buzz words and charging the company a bucket load to deliver the ‘lecture’.

      The whole time I kept thinking, “this is all well and good, but most of these companies have policies and rules that screw the consumer over, and we are the face that bears the brunt of the frustration”.

    27. australisaquarii on

      A definite symptom of people getting desperate or worse, the expected explosion of desperate people that this obscene war will create. A very bad omen.

    28. Falcon3333 on

      I walked into a woolies, realized they didn’t have what I needed, and walked out via the self serve.

      The gates closed on me slowly so I had a bit of a dash to get through them, they screamed and blared an alarm while I just pushed through them, nobody gave a fuck. The employees know what’s going on.

    29. sameoldblah on

      What’s wrong with the existing entry gate with a sensor, it’s already a one way thing. Also the idea of these batton things physically touching you is kind of eww.

    30. guvbums on

      Got a good hit on the wrist from one as I was walking into big w the other.. made me desire to grab it and rip it off, but I have control.

    31. cmmndrkn613 on

      If you accidentally give them a little upward yank as you walk through, they fail. Do what you wish with this information.

    34. Internal-Order-4532 on

      I have switched to Asian shops for most things. Some even deliver for free. Couldn’t be happier.

    36. Key_Perspective_9464 on

      I genuinely don’t understand how these combined with the shitty auto-gates on the exits don’t break some fire codes.

    37. PMFSCV on

      We’re so close to membership being required and having to scan a card to get in.

      All this bullshit because putting checkout staff on and employing real people with real lives that pay real tax and have real children is for some reason too much to expect in a civilized society.

    38. Successful-Layer2102 on

      Stop giving them your money

      Be slightly inconvenienced and support a local green grocery and butcher

      Iga for everything else or aldi

    39. TattooedBear on

      I find when the Coles gates don’t open and no staff about to open them or because they are too busy having a yarn with colleague (few times now) that you can just barge through and they open

    40. t_25_t on

      As a corporation they are free to install whatever they deem necessary. If they hurt the public, I hope they have good liability insurance.

    41. MGEESMAMMA on

      And a lot of this stuff could be prevented if they hadn’t made it their mission to get rid of staff at the checkouts.

    42. Independent_Dare_922 on

      This calls for civil disobedience. Their whole business depends on customers behaving in a civil fashion, while the store no longer behaves civilly. Take frozen items and perishables and place under shelves elsewhere in the store. Fill trolleys with ice cream and leave them elsewhere. Take the lids of all the milk bottles.

    43. mediweevil on

      I’m waiting for the first multimillion injury claim to be filed when a child cops eye damage from. this bullshit will be gone the next day.

    44. ashleyriddell61 on

      If you need anti thief gates in a *supermarket*, then the problem isn’t the customers.