‘Ex-Gurkha’ deployed at London’s flagship Greggs as shoplifters brazenly target bakery chain

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1. Initially read that as “ex ghurka employed as shop lifter” and I thought fuck me, that’s a serious way to steal a steak bake

2. If I was a shoplifter the very last person I’d want working as security would be a Gurkha, them boys do not fuck about!

3. Shoplifting a Greggs steak bake must be the absolute bottom tier in the criminal world. Where’s your ambition people?

4. At this rate it won’t be long until we have machine gun turrets mounted at the counter.

5. I’m getting sick of these pity stories about huge chain stores and shoplifting.

   Shoplifting is an inherent problem with the self-serve supermarket model, in which customers are trusted to grab their own stuff and bring it up to the front, and not just abscond with it without paying. In recent years this has become even more the case with the rise of self-checkouts. Companies whining about this are just looking for handouts and government subsidies for the security problems inherent in their way of doing business.

6. Brb, just feeling sorry for a national chain that’s making record profits charging £2 for a Lukewarm pasty.

7. I was doing pre deployment training back in 2018 and chatting to one of the Int corps guys, he was telling me how they had a Ghurka posted to their phase two training to keep him out of the way. Supposed to take out a taliban commander and provide DNA evidence, the dude brought his head back to camp. You don’t fuck with the little mountain men.

8. >It comes after it was revealed that staff have begun wearing body cameras due to an increase in sausage roll thefts, amid concerns over workers being attacked in the process.

   Shouldn’t laugh. That is darkly comic.

9. In fairness I have seen it in multiple greggs in the UK. People walk in, take the food and walk out
   Staff don’t want to get hurt so let it happen

10. If I’m going to risk prosecution after stealing something it’s definitely not going to be a Gregg’s.

    I mean this in a compassionate way; people doing this must be relatively desperate to eat (not that Greggs tastes bad but if you’re gonna steal then you have far more options with money being no object)

11. If the Gurkha draws his kukri, they will be in… Trouble.

12. No surprises here. Thanks to austerity, the police is about as underfunded as any public service. Crime is on the rise, both minor and major. Offenders get younger and younger. What are the actual chances of any consequences of shoplifting?
    Britain is headed towards a South African scenario, where safety is provided by private security contractors, but only for those who can afford it.