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    Are we anti-theft tagging 1,19€ drinks now?

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    1. PseudoProphecy on

      You do realize it’s not the cost but the amount of theft on energy drink? There’s two schools and two small stores in my area and energy drinks are one of the most stolen item in them.

    2. Coloeus_Monedula on

      Some places just stick those on whatever is being stolen most.

      Not hard to believe kids will steal energy drinks. Some places won’t even sell them to kids. Might as well then steal whichever you like most, even if it’s cheap.

    3. OnVa54 on

      I was working in a store where the shop manager hired someone to put these in every single chocolate bar that was not the absolute cheapest ones. They probably had a huge theft wave like we did. Hapened everytime summer break started in my area.

    5. winneri on

      Those tags are dirt cheap so its more about just tagging everything that is getting stolen a lot. Since those are so cheap they might need to sell 10 cans to just break even on one being stolen so they either deter theft or stop selling cheap that is getting stolen.

    6. fallwind on

      welcome to the results of cuts to unemployment insurance.

      Desperate people do desperate things.

    8. Consistent-Jello5634 on

      economic indicator – unfortunately. We can definitely talk about whether or not it makes sense to steal those, but things like this are fairly well observed and documented to be dismissed with “naah it’s not the state of economy”

    10. No-Victory-7848 on

      Kaikki varastaa ja mikä ei ole naulattu kiinni tullaan varastamaan. Iso menoerä kaupoille nykyään.

    14. Creswald on

      Machine marked me at Idl self checkout to be checked because I had risk items in my backet. I asked what items, employee made a nervous apologetic smile, that its the two chocolate doughts. They simply started marking most often stolen items.

    15. Naive-Routine9332 on

      lidl in niitykumpu, the only thing with anti-theft tag i noticed in the meat/cheese aisle was the oltermanni 😀 price is definitely not the main contributor

    16. BestFoxEver on

      They should put those anti theft tags to take away coffee cups. In the other thread surprisingly many Finnish redditors thought it was OK that construction workers steal take away coffee from grocery stores and the grocery store owner was an idiot if they did not give free coffee.

    17. Hithaeglir on

      It is less about the cost but also about not tolerating any kind of theft, especially on products that are often stolen

    19. BucksheeGunner on

      Yes. When degenerates need to steal energy drinks and the people who witness crime generally don’t want to inconvenience their day by calling it out, preventing it, or don’t even want to report it to the store, then yes – It’s going to get tagged. Not exactly surprising. We created this low standard society where some people can’t be trusted, and most people can’t be bothered to do anything about it. Welcome to 202X. Maybe 203X will be different. I think it will, but probably worse because once again most people will generally not care until they are directly inconvenienced.

    20. Ill_Bridge1766 on

      The problem is not that the drinks are expensive, the problem is that kids steal them very often

    21. Banaanisade on

      At least they’re not putting them in locked storage where you can only get them if an employee comes to redeem them with a physical key.

      See photos of those online every now and then and I can’t imagine ever bothering to buy a product that requires that many extra steps to get.