People thinks its a help yourself. shameful London
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Wow, I’m so shocked.
Anytime I’ve been to the Paddington Basin branch, I’ve seen more stuff be shoplifted than bought.
I saw shoplifts happening in both the Canary Wharf station and Stratford Westfield branches as well.
You only need to go on the popular ig pages for London to find out how carefree some of these thieves are…and tbh it’s going to get worse as the wealth inequality deepens. When I worked Greggs many a moon ago this was non-existent, sad to see what they have to put up with now
Free London transport, Greggs etc. no consequences. Welcome to London.
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Whitechapel you say?
I’m from Glasgow but staying in London for a few months and I was shocked at seeing someone just run into the Camberwell Greggs and just take big arm fulls of sandwiches and walk out, not even run. London is a dumpster fire compared to other cities in the UK
Can’t even choose your own sandwich…thieving gits. All of the worst 5 finger discount Greggs about to be exposed.
I remember seeing a guy smoking a cig walk into the Greggs on Kilburn high road and just take loads of butties off the shelf and walk out. They must’ve run out of steak bakes
My local has resorted to putting a D-Lock on the fridge door handles to prevent non-stop theft.
List of things you’re allowed to borrow from the biggest Library of Things, London itself:
– Fares
– Food & Drink from any supermarket
– Greggs
– Bikes
– Mobile phones
Anything else?
Dang, was the best deal in the city!
Literally every time I go to a central London Greggs I see scrotes treating it as a personal food pantry, nonchalantly examining and picking up whatever they fancy and walking out
I’m in the south west and regularly see people just walking in and taking sandwiches etc out of open fridges then walking out. Staff told me no point in calling police.
Cherry on the shit cake was that the next day or so I saw the culprits in wetherspoons drinking lots of drinks they had clearly had to pay for
Bit mystified by people on this thread blaming ‘the middle class’ for this problem. It’s the growth of a certain demographic who have opted out of normal life and are taking what they can get. And they can get a lot because there is no on street law enforcement any more.
Damn, r/EastLDN is depressing
It’s actually so frustrating but can’t blame them! I went to a greggs in Cricklewood a few weeks ago and there were people robbing it
Since it’s guarenteed to happen every single lunchtime by a load of people why not just have a couple of officers fake waiting in a queue there ready to just arrest someone right away. It’s like a guarenteed arrest within half hour. Sounds dumb to make an arrest over £5 of food sure but that person will be doing it frequently and just twice a week is already 100 thefts and £500 in a year. Of course they wont just steal the greggs too, they’ll take lots from everywhere.
So half hour, get an arrest which will ideally stop 100s of future thefts from that 1 person alone, but also other thieves will probably see or hear about this happening and it could reduce the amount of thefts they do too.
There’s also the publicity side of things. Like everyone says the police dont do anything(fair observation) so why not go for a few easy guarenteed arrests? Make a bit of noise about it and get some public support for a change.
I know i’ll be told “but they dont have the staff to do this extra stuff” but I’m saying do this insteaddd of other things. I dont want them to stop working on other crimes but I think it would be good to focus on getting a load of quick easy arrests and make thieves in general start feeling less invincible. Seems like it’ll pay for itself many times over just for that reason alone. Much more efficient than doing much longer investigations into other small thefts and rarely getting an arrest. I think the stat is that a police officer makes 1 arrest every 4 months or so which is too low when i can go witness a theft pretty easy.
Also out of all thieves i’m generally not in favour of targetting food theives, but grabbing a bunch of sandwiches and drinks from places like this isn’t something they’re doing to survive. If someone is stealing loafs of bread or milk or whatever basic groceries from Tesco then yeah “I didn’t see anything”, but thats not the case here.
Absolutely no one saw this coming…..
See all the toothless beggers walk into st pancs Greggs, open the fridge, grab what they want and stroll out. Never once questioned.
I’ve been in Greggs twice now and seen shoplifting happen. On both occasions the blokes were wearing those stupid embroided oversized jeans which cost like £250 so I doubt they are hard up.
Them again, Boo boo?
Well, who here is surprised….
I guess you know you live in a toilet if you have a ‘new format’ Greggs
I’d expect this to become the norm everywhere soon. I’ve seen people blatantly walking in and walking out with a shelf full of sandwiches. I think this is what we should expect when there clearly aren’t any consequences to committing crime.
Britain used to actually be a high trust society. How it is a low trust cluster of societies.
You better start believing in low trust societies…
First time I saw this was in 2018 when some dude came into Wasabi, picked two expensive Sushi boxes and left. I was like “wtf”. Never seen that before.
No mask, no glasses, no hesitation, nothing.
It’s almost as if zero consequences lead to an asshole society.
How low do you have to be to steal from Greggs of all places?
The article says five shops are trialling the new system. Any idea of where the other shops are?
Feed the people not the cooperations
They used to have big guy watching you closely, hope he is still having the job
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People thinks its a help yourself. shameful London
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Wow, I’m so shocked.
Anytime I’ve been to the Paddington Basin branch, I’ve seen more stuff be shoplifted than bought.
I saw shoplifts happening in both the Canary Wharf station and Stratford Westfield branches as well.
You only need to go on the popular ig pages for London to find out how carefree some of these thieves are…and tbh it’s going to get worse as the wealth inequality deepens. When I worked Greggs many a moon ago this was non-existent, sad to see what they have to put up with now
Free London transport, Greggs etc. no consequences. Welcome to London.
Surprised_Pikachu.jpg
Whitechapel you say?
I’m from Glasgow but staying in London for a few months and I was shocked at seeing someone just run into the Camberwell Greggs and just take big arm fulls of sandwiches and walk out, not even run. London is a dumpster fire compared to other cities in the UK
Can’t even choose your own sandwich…thieving gits. All of the worst 5 finger discount Greggs about to be exposed.
I remember seeing a guy smoking a cig walk into the Greggs on Kilburn high road and just take loads of butties off the shelf and walk out. They must’ve run out of steak bakes
My local has resorted to putting a D-Lock on the fridge door handles to prevent non-stop theft.
List of things you’re allowed to borrow from the biggest Library of Things, London itself:
– Fares
– Food & Drink from any supermarket
– Greggs
– Bikes
– Mobile phones
Anything else?
Dang, was the best deal in the city!
Literally every time I go to a central London Greggs I see scrotes treating it as a personal food pantry, nonchalantly examining and picking up whatever they fancy and walking out
I’m in the south west and regularly see people just walking in and taking sandwiches etc out of open fridges then walking out. Staff told me no point in calling police.
Cherry on the shit cake was that the next day or so I saw the culprits in wetherspoons drinking lots of drinks they had clearly had to pay for
Bit mystified by people on this thread blaming ‘the middle class’ for this problem. It’s the growth of a certain demographic who have opted out of normal life and are taking what they can get. And they can get a lot because there is no on street law enforcement any more.
Damn, r/EastLDN is depressing
It’s actually so frustrating but can’t blame them! I went to a greggs in Cricklewood a few weeks ago and there were people robbing it
Since it’s guarenteed to happen every single lunchtime by a load of people why not just have a couple of officers fake waiting in a queue there ready to just arrest someone right away. It’s like a guarenteed arrest within half hour. Sounds dumb to make an arrest over £5 of food sure but that person will be doing it frequently and just twice a week is already 100 thefts and £500 in a year. Of course they wont just steal the greggs too, they’ll take lots from everywhere.
So half hour, get an arrest which will ideally stop 100s of future thefts from that 1 person alone, but also other thieves will probably see or hear about this happening and it could reduce the amount of thefts they do too.
There’s also the publicity side of things. Like everyone says the police dont do anything(fair observation) so why not go for a few easy guarenteed arrests? Make a bit of noise about it and get some public support for a change.
I know i’ll be told “but they dont have the staff to do this extra stuff” but I’m saying do this insteaddd of other things. I dont want them to stop working on other crimes but I think it would be good to focus on getting a load of quick easy arrests and make thieves in general start feeling less invincible. Seems like it’ll pay for itself many times over just for that reason alone. Much more efficient than doing much longer investigations into other small thefts and rarely getting an arrest. I think the stat is that a police officer makes 1 arrest every 4 months or so which is too low when i can go witness a theft pretty easy.
Also out of all thieves i’m generally not in favour of targetting food theives, but grabbing a bunch of sandwiches and drinks from places like this isn’t something they’re doing to survive. If someone is stealing loafs of bread or milk or whatever basic groceries from Tesco then yeah “I didn’t see anything”, but thats not the case here.
Absolutely no one saw this coming…..
See all the toothless beggers walk into st pancs Greggs, open the fridge, grab what they want and stroll out. Never once questioned.
I’ve been in Greggs twice now and seen shoplifting happen. On both occasions the blokes were wearing those stupid embroided oversized jeans which cost like £250 so I doubt they are hard up.
Them again, Boo boo?
Well, who here is surprised….
I guess you know you live in a toilet if you have a ‘new format’ Greggs
I’d expect this to become the norm everywhere soon. I’ve seen people blatantly walking in and walking out with a shelf full of sandwiches. I think this is what we should expect when there clearly aren’t any consequences to committing crime.
Britain used to actually be a high trust society. How it is a low trust cluster of societies.
You better start believing in low trust societies…
First time I saw this was in 2018 when some dude came into Wasabi, picked two expensive Sushi boxes and left. I was like “wtf”. Never seen that before.
No mask, no glasses, no hesitation, nothing.
It’s almost as if zero consequences lead to an asshole society.
How low do you have to be to steal from Greggs of all places?
The article says five shops are trialling the new system. Any idea of where the other shops are?
Feed the people not the cooperations
They used to have big guy watching you closely, hope he is still having the job
This is why we can’t have nice things
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