New entry barriers at Kmart Eastland
Posted by immortal_bandicoot
New entry barriers at Kmart Eastland
Posted by immortal_bandicoot
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Enshittification complete
Bahaha K-Mart thinks they need entry barriers to stop me wanting to go there.
Let’s make the shopping experience as hostile as we can.
That should stop all of you criminal thieving customers.
Of course any real thieves would just push through anyway, the same as how they jump over train station gates.
Had these in Brisbane Westfield Chermside for a while now.
These were also introduced at Northland a little while ago.
My friend saw 2 feral walking out of Eastland Kmart with a trolley full of stuff. They were confronted and the trolley got tipped over, ferals just walked away
I think the Broadmeadows store was the first to get these barriers a year or so ago. Probably the first time Broadmeadows has ever been the the first recipient of new tech 😂
Jokes on you! Kmart Tarneit has had this for probs a year already.
We’ve had these at Bayside in Frankston for a while (shocking I know 😂)
I mean, if you’re going to steal something, why not go somewhere that has things worth the risk and effort?
If I had a choice between a free Anko product or the equivalent from *any* other brand…I’m never choosing Anko.
They think they are going to be able to stop me stealing all their anko daschshund shaped door stoppers but they are not going to be able to stop me
These restrictions are only effective on the normal people. Thieves still be thieving!
Wouldn’t it be easier just to put the tills back at the front?
… but Kmart used to have barriers anyway and they got rid of them all
Yep.. this is where we are now..
Constantly surveiled, profiled and preemptively labelled as thieves all for the privilege of shopping in these shitholes..
I’m only forty and I recall walking down to the shops with my Nana in inner city Sydney and greeting people at all the different stores, everyone knew her, they were all little family run businesses, they’d give us little specials and treats etc..
Now it’s single file through the security barriers as Palantir scans your face so you can have the privilege of chucking some Bangladeshi clothing on afterpay for your toddler with your pin pad prompts , trying to beat the rush to get home in time for fucking Scott Cam at 7 o block until you realise that every bit of “entertainment” is just ads too.
How come it’s always the cheap shops with thee gates when I go to Myer I wonder why they don’t have them
Yep southland the same and they are still scanning receipts
If you push them outward, they open. Just FYI.
Seems getting the teens to check receipts wasn’t enough 😂😂😂
When do we have to do the finger prints and retinal scan?
Yes! Aren’t they intense? Trying to stop the runners I guess.
Always an arms race between shoplifters and stores.
It would have been cheaper just having the checkouts at the exit…
They’re putting them up in stores in certain areas
Bayside Frankston store has done this too – registers back down the front, total store overhaul in terms of layout and the big unhappy gates.
It’s so very unwelcoming now.
Browns Plains has had them installed too. Would have been easier to move the checkout back to the front of the store though.
They push open like the supermarket ones. Seriously just push them open. If you haven’t stolen anything just walk out. Let them come tackle you and get a payout.
Who wants to steal Anko landfill?
Oh great, I am absolutely thrilled (not). I am so sick of these gates at the supermarket, now at Kmart too. Can I even leave the store if I choose not to buy something? As I realised the other day I couldn’t walk out from the supermarket if I didn’t decide to buy something unless I walked through a normal check out. I just want to go window shopping sometimes…