Quarter of UK population witnessed shoplifting in last 12 months, poll suggests
https://www.itv.com/thismorning/articles/quarter-of-uk-population-witnessed-shoplifting-in-last-12-months-poll
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Quarter of UK population witnessed shoplifting in last 12 months, poll suggests
https://www.itv.com/thismorning/articles/quarter-of-uk-population-witnessed-shoplifting-in-last-12-months-poll
Posted by 1-randomonium
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Used to see it on the daily when worked in a supermarket.
The majority of it was repeat offenders who were selling it on, I’d generally report them to management.
But occasionally you’d get people taking sandwiches and stuff, most of us would turn a blind eye to those as long as a manger wasn’t in view.
> It also found 23% of customers have witnessed the physical or verbal abuse of shop staff, including racial or sexual abuse, physical assault or threats with weapons.
Remember, if you see someone racially abusing a retail worker whilst stealing a box of beers, no you didn’t.
I tap takled a shop lifter about a year ago as he tried to flee M&S with a basket full of bottles of wine. He went to the ground and half of the bottles smashed. Had a sudden panic height grab a broken bottle and slash me but he just scarpered.
It was very difficult shoplifting when I switched to having my Tesco’s order delivered.
But you can now add a comment against each item, so I write things like “Please hide the razors under the kitchen roll” and “Don’t put all the onions on the scales”.
Presumably the other three-quarters get their shopping delivered.
I’ve seen it. It’s the same guy over and over guy but I’ve seen it. Last week he made off with 9 of the extra large cadbury chocolate bars up his sleeve.
Is shop lifting a bigger economic cost than tax evasion yet?
Even in richmond/twickenham i see shoplifting multiple times a week. When I point it out staff don’t care. I even alerted Sainsbury’s with precise date and times of a woman who goes in, loads up a cart with alcohol, and walks out, and has done it multiple days, and nothing has happened, I still see her doing the same thing.
I witness a lot of shoplifting. I should probably stop.
Then they wonder why prices go up. Do people really think these supermarket companies just accept these losses and don’t pass them on to honest paying customers? Lol if so.
Cost of doing business. Shoppers are not there to prevent it as they could get hurt. I value my life above all others so wouldn’t get involved.
Yes and we’re all paying for it. Hence the reason an average weekly shop is now so expensive.
If retailers really wanted to reduce shoplifting they need to put the most stolen items out of thieve’s reach and make the stores much harder to get out of. That will piss honest customers off but it’s a price some locations might have to pay. The police and courts could do their bit by making examples of these people.
I read this as a quarter of the UK population have been shoplifting oops
I witness shop lifting every other time I go to greggs
id like to see a numbers on who steal to eat and who steal to fund
I saw a place get shoplifted. I didn’t do anything. Mostly because I didn’t realize someone would send someone else in to cause a distraction on one side of a store so the other person could steal 8 cans of energy drink. I was stunned in disbelif, surely this woman didn’t plan this just to steal this. Why put that much effort into 8 cans of energy drink. At least steal something I could mentally justify to myself for not intervening like a loaf of bread.
I witness it every time I go in my local co-op, it’s a fucking state. They just do not even bother.
Usual reminder that supermarket profit margins are about 3% or less on average so no, there is no record profit being scored off the back of the poor. Groceries could literally not be sold any cheaper.
Just last week me and my girlfriend saw a couple bringing a suitcase into the alcohol alley at local Sainsbury’s. The moments later they smashed through emergency exit doors with a suitcase full of vodka. Apparently things like this happen on a daily basis. What a lovely country indeed…
I thought it meant a quarter of the population have been witnessed.
A quarter of us? I’m missing out!
I’m not even paying that much attention to other wankers in the shop while I’m ~~shoplifting~~ shopping.
it is an issue that will never stop because these company’s make so much profit and it’s so easy to shoplift
Yep I saw someone do a grab and run in boots last weekend.
Staff did not give a fuck.
The security is absolutely useless and the shoplifters know it. Genuinely don’t know what’s the point of them anymore now that shoplifters are well aware they won’t try to chase or stop them.
Watched a security guy at m&s pathetically play tag of war with the shoplifters basket only to shortly give up and let him out. It’s almost hilarious.
Oh, they mean a quarter of the population have seen someone else shoplifting. Phew, thought they were onto me for a second there.
It should improve once the new austerity kicks in and the income gap widens. Blokes’ll be too weak to steal tins of beans.
We are very quickly becoming a low trust society. And that has huge implications for our wellbeing and collectove state of mind.
Culturally the country is fucked when shoplifting becomes this common. No don’t give me the whole these people are hungry and poor spiel. People do it because they know they can get away with it. Oh and also drug addicts. It’s funny how people talk about the US going downhill across the atlantic when the UK is slowly becoming a shithole outside of Hampstead village.
“Crime is down” – only because there is NO SANE REASON to report a crime to the police if they will do NOTHING.