Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains (or at least at Tesco)
At those prices it doesn’t surprise me tbh!
They put them in fish net stockings now to increase their sexiness.
Anything over 10 pounds in a single bottle needs tagging in my local Tesco.
Loving the cage tags.
Having worked BWS at Tesco a long time ago the round the neck tags (both styles) were always put on wrong by most of the other staff and were a pain with some bottles. Plus even then you could remove them fairly easily. Wonder if we will just get people going in with large magnets now.
Do they sell scissors?
My local morrisons has locked cupboards in the alcohol aisle. A staff member has to come and open the cupboard to get you the bottle, that then has a security tag on it.
What’s the point in the net. You could still drink the contents.
This is going nationwide for all Tescos, There is also talk off all meats such as beef and lamb being placed in these bdsm security cages too.
This is how you know you live in a dodgy area
Free The Spirit!
I reckon if you’re that committed to nicking something this isn’t going make a blind bit of difference.
Doesn’t matter how many tags they put on Tinfoil lined shopping bag and no alarm is going off can cut the fishnets off with a pair of pliers ..only way to stop these getting pinched is to have them behind a counter
Pah, that’s nowt.
I lived in Salford in the early 2000s. The local Threshers had everything behind bulletproof glass, and you had to enter through a time-delay airlock type door arrangement. Paying for your stuff was via one of those drop boxes like at the post office where one side must be shut before the other can be opened.
This seems fairly standard now, unfortunately.
One time in Newcastle Tesco I asked the guy at the self-checkouts to remove the tag off a bottle of liquor I’d just bought, but he looked confused and then just said “Nah don’t worry about it it’s fine.”
So, yeah, long story short, I had to hammer the tag off the bottle once I got back home.
Yes, the security alarm did ring as I left, and no, nobody came to check.
Is the cage attached to anything?
Or can you run out with the bottle and then later just drill into it?
I’m Camberwell Co-op the cheese is in sealed security boxes.
There is a reason why the alcohol aisle is usually the furthest away from the entrance of a U.K. supermarket.
Spirits have always been tagged. These are just the new version of the tags.
Better than our local Morrison who have them behind locked glass in an aisle with only one chap opening them meaning everyone piles up in the aisle waiting.
In my local Tesco they have the cage and tag on the £1 own label pooh pills but not the spirits – go figure!
Man… This thing is getting worse faster than I expected
When will they just make the aisle have its own checkout, like the pharmacy?
Walk in. Select drinks. Pay to leave the area.
I’m not sure why they did that in Newcastle to the spirits, doesn’t everyone just drink Newcastle brown.
Maybe it is to draw attention and increase sales …
Jarrow morrisons literally has locked cabinets. You need to press a button to summon staff to get them out for you.
Apparently, they start bleeping when passed over the scanner and keep going until untagged.
It’d get on my tits if that’s the case.
how is that gonna stop them? now they can pick up like 5 or 6 with one hand.
Is that the big one at Kingston Park or a different Newcastle tescos?
Spiderman really needs to reign it in
Yet they still sell rolls of tin foil to wrap them up in. Amateurs!
I can top this, our local morrisons has all the spirits behind a seperate manned counter in the drinks aisle!
stuff like this is why i just get delivery. tills take long enough as it is without adding loads of extra security tags to everything
A local near me has their spirit bottles locked away, and they leave bottles of water with the names of the spirits on the shelf. You have to take the bottles to the counter.
Fuck me, I wonder what Tesco Sunderland has up its sleeve…
Same here in Southampton. Even the bottom shelf stuff!
With all the security measures in place these days it might be cheaper for supermarkets to employ a sniper.
They’re rolling that out everywhere. Some stores have dummy bottles.
I was delighted a bottle of Glenlivet by Amazon/Morrisons just before Christmas and it still had the security tag. I was annoyed for a moment but then took my wire cutters to it and proceeded to drink delicious whisky. I assume these are even easier to cut off?
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains (or at least at Tesco)
At those prices it doesn’t surprise me tbh!
They put them in fish net stockings now to increase their sexiness.
Anything over 10 pounds in a single bottle needs tagging in my local Tesco.
Loving the cage tags.
Having worked BWS at Tesco a long time ago the round the neck tags (both styles) were always put on wrong by most of the other staff and were a pain with some bottles. Plus even then you could remove them fairly easily. Wonder if we will just get people going in with large magnets now.
Do they sell scissors?
My local morrisons has locked cupboards in the alcohol aisle. A staff member has to come and open the cupboard to get you the bottle, that then has a security tag on it.
What’s the point in the net. You could still drink the contents.
This is going nationwide for all Tescos, There is also talk off all meats such as beef and lamb being placed in these bdsm security cages too.
This is how you know you live in a dodgy area
Free The Spirit!
I reckon if you’re that committed to nicking something this isn’t going make a blind bit of difference.
Doesn’t matter how many tags they put on Tinfoil lined shopping bag and no alarm is going off can cut the fishnets off with a pair of pliers ..only way to stop these getting pinched is to have them behind a counter
Pah, that’s nowt.
I lived in Salford in the early 2000s. The local Threshers had everything behind bulletproof glass, and you had to enter through a time-delay airlock type door arrangement. Paying for your stuff was via one of those drop boxes like at the post office where one side must be shut before the other can be opened.
This seems fairly standard now, unfortunately.
One time in Newcastle Tesco I asked the guy at the self-checkouts to remove the tag off a bottle of liquor I’d just bought, but he looked confused and then just said “Nah don’t worry about it it’s fine.”
So, yeah, long story short, I had to hammer the tag off the bottle once I got back home.
Yes, the security alarm did ring as I left, and no, nobody came to check.
Is the cage attached to anything?
Or can you run out with the bottle and then later just drill into it?
I’m Camberwell Co-op the cheese is in sealed security boxes.
There is a reason why the alcohol aisle is usually the furthest away from the entrance of a U.K. supermarket.
Spirits have always been tagged. These are just the new version of the tags.
Better than our local Morrison who have them behind locked glass in an aisle with only one chap opening them meaning everyone piles up in the aisle waiting.
In my local Tesco they have the cage and tag on the £1 own label pooh pills but not the spirits – go figure!
Man… This thing is getting worse faster than I expected
When will they just make the aisle have its own checkout, like the pharmacy?
Walk in. Select drinks. Pay to leave the area.
I’m not sure why they did that in Newcastle to the spirits, doesn’t everyone just drink Newcastle brown.
Maybe it is to draw attention and increase sales …
Jarrow morrisons literally has locked cabinets. You need to press a button to summon staff to get them out for you.
Apparently, they start bleeping when passed over the scanner and keep going until untagged.
It’d get on my tits if that’s the case.
how is that gonna stop them? now they can pick up like 5 or 6 with one hand.
Is that the big one at Kingston Park or a different Newcastle tescos?
Spiderman really needs to reign it in
Yet they still sell rolls of tin foil to wrap them up in. Amateurs!
I can top this, our local morrisons has all the spirits behind a seperate manned counter in the drinks aisle!
stuff like this is why i just get delivery. tills take long enough as it is without adding loads of extra security tags to everything
A local near me has their spirit bottles locked away, and they leave bottles of water with the names of the spirits on the shelf. You have to take the bottles to the counter.
Fuck me, I wonder what Tesco Sunderland has up its sleeve…
Same here in Southampton. Even the bottom shelf stuff!
With all the security measures in place these days it might be cheaper for supermarkets to employ a sniper.
They’re rolling that out everywhere. Some stores have dummy bottles.
I was delighted a bottle of Glenlivet by Amazon/Morrisons just before Christmas and it still had the security tag. I was annoyed for a moment but then took my wire cutters to it and proceeded to drink delicious whisky. I assume these are even easier to cut off?