It’s so shoplifters can’t just swipe the whole shelf into a big bag for life
local tesco just introduced these and I fucking hate them.
Now I gotta touch something that every other fucker touches and the noise they make is also just awful.
To stop shoplifters rapidly sweeping higher value items into a bag and walking out
Seems like a massive hindrance, both for stealing and stocking shelves.
They really hate supermarket sweep reenactors
You should try buying razors at the local Sainsbury’s. You have to do this weird video call thing before the cabinet they’re in will open.
Sad reflection of our societal degradation
If it isn’t there, then the vanish will vanish…pesky stuff always trying to disappear.
Fair play to b&m for trying something! But god it’s all a crappy experience for the rest of us who just want to shop easily, quickly and without being suspected. Single cans of Redbull are now security tagged in most Tesco Expresses in city centres. The range now security tag £1.99 bars of chocolate. Iceland have butter in plastic security boxes. It’s mental, swear it’s the last 1-3 years it’s got worse.
I want to see these in the new Supermarket Sweep, then at the end have to deal with a couple of hundred unexpected items in the bagging area.
Having read the other answers, wow am I naive, I thought they were to stop them falling and making a mess. The power isn’t great for your skin, or eyes. And you know someone’s kid would want to play with it.
This is to slow down thieves but really it’s like speed bumps in an out of town retail park used to deter boy racers, it makes the average compliant user suffer a reduced experience.Â
Stop someone emptying the shelf in to a bag.
To stop the folks at r/laundry. They’re mad about washing clothes.
Cleaning products such as the ones pictured are stolen en masse.
Organised crime groups will hit a store and clear out literally thousands of pounds worth of product in one go.
This slows them down.
It’s to keep all the products segregated so they don’t interbreed and create inferior hybrid product babiesÂ
I work in the industry that designs displays for retail shops in the UK – short answer is that these are indeed to stop theft.
Longer(ish) answer is that this is called ‘anti shrink’ in the industry, and essentially stops someone from sweeping their arms across an open shelf to grab a whole load and make a run for it because of the literal barrier, as well as stopping someone from taking them one at a time because of the noise and resulting unwanted attention.
Anti shrink is clever stuff and while yes it does make it more of an annoyance for paying customers, companies wouldn’t do it unless people were stealing the items in question – it costs a fair bit to design, prototype, develop, produce en mass and retrofit into shops across the UK. Clever, clever stuff! 🙂
Snatch and grab preventers
Prevent shoplifting, or at least damage limitation.
They have them in Tesco Express stores for jars of coffee.
I live a couple of miles from a small Tesco that is opposite a train station.
Shoplifters make use of the train timetables by lifting big value stuff, then running into the train station and catching a train before the police turn up.
That’s why after 10pm, when there’s only one member of staff on the shop floor, the door is locked.
When someone approaches the door after 10pm, an alarm sounds, and the person behind the counter decides if they want to let that individual into the shop.
That shop also has those noisy sliders over high cost goods on the shelves.
Most of the community in that small village are only slightly younger than god’s teeth. So losing that shop would greatly alter their day to day lives.
If those noisy sliders enable the shop many people depend upon to stay profitable, I don’t see any harm.
The staff in that little Tesco all use body-worn cameras.
Just an added nuisance. A shop lifter doesn’t really care if they have intention to steal they will steal.
Playing jigsaw puzzles just to get what you need on overpriced items.
Stop nicking, innit.
Deters / delays thieves who think they’re on Supermarket Sweep
They are a minor inconvenience that law abiding shoppers have to put up with because a small group of society feel entitled to steal whatever isn’t locked away / behind a barrier / bolted down.
It doesn’t stop stealing completely but does prevent shelf-clearing into a bag-for-life for example, and is still cheaper than locking everything away completely.
It’s always been the same – the actions of the horrible minority affecting the well behaved majority, or the ‘bad apple effect’.
Slows down theft of high priced items, ‘scooping’ where an arm pulls down many packages at once is the generally accepted shop lifting style.
I guess that we just have to accept that this country is a no trust society now.
They’re because a shelf stackers job isn’t shit enough, gotta gamify and make a challenge
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Slow down thieves.
It’s so shoplifters can’t just swipe the whole shelf into a big bag for life
local tesco just introduced these and I fucking hate them.
Now I gotta touch something that every other fucker touches and the noise they make is also just awful.
To stop shoplifters rapidly sweeping higher value items into a bag and walking out
Seems like a massive hindrance, both for stealing and stocking shelves.
They really hate supermarket sweep reenactors
You should try buying razors at the local Sainsbury’s. You have to do this weird video call thing before the cabinet they’re in will open.
Sad reflection of our societal degradation
If it isn’t there, then the vanish will vanish…pesky stuff always trying to disappear.
Fair play to b&m for trying something! But god it’s all a crappy experience for the rest of us who just want to shop easily, quickly and without being suspected. Single cans of Redbull are now security tagged in most Tesco Expresses in city centres. The range now security tag £1.99 bars of chocolate. Iceland have butter in plastic security boxes. It’s mental, swear it’s the last 1-3 years it’s got worse.
I want to see these in the new Supermarket Sweep, then at the end have to deal with a couple of hundred unexpected items in the bagging area.
Having read the other answers, wow am I naive, I thought they were to stop them falling and making a mess. The power isn’t great for your skin, or eyes. And you know someone’s kid would want to play with it.
This is to slow down thieves but really it’s like speed bumps in an out of town retail park used to deter boy racers, it makes the average compliant user suffer a reduced experience.Â
Stop someone emptying the shelf in to a bag.
To stop the folks at r/laundry. They’re mad about washing clothes.
Cleaning products such as the ones pictured are stolen en masse.
Organised crime groups will hit a store and clear out literally thousands of pounds worth of product in one go.
This slows them down.
It’s to keep all the products segregated so they don’t interbreed and create inferior hybrid product babiesÂ
I work in the industry that designs displays for retail shops in the UK – short answer is that these are indeed to stop theft.
Longer(ish) answer is that this is called ‘anti shrink’ in the industry, and essentially stops someone from sweeping their arms across an open shelf to grab a whole load and make a run for it because of the literal barrier, as well as stopping someone from taking them one at a time because of the noise and resulting unwanted attention.
Anti shrink is clever stuff and while yes it does make it more of an annoyance for paying customers, companies wouldn’t do it unless people were stealing the items in question – it costs a fair bit to design, prototype, develop, produce en mass and retrofit into shops across the UK. Clever, clever stuff! 🙂
Snatch and grab preventers
Prevent shoplifting, or at least damage limitation.
They have them in Tesco Express stores for jars of coffee.
I live a couple of miles from a small Tesco that is opposite a train station.
Shoplifters make use of the train timetables by lifting big value stuff, then running into the train station and catching a train before the police turn up.
That’s why after 10pm, when there’s only one member of staff on the shop floor, the door is locked.
When someone approaches the door after 10pm, an alarm sounds, and the person behind the counter decides if they want to let that individual into the shop.
That shop also has those noisy sliders over high cost goods on the shelves.
Most of the community in that small village are only slightly younger than god’s teeth. So losing that shop would greatly alter their day to day lives.
If those noisy sliders enable the shop many people depend upon to stay profitable, I don’t see any harm.
The staff in that little Tesco all use body-worn cameras.
Just an added nuisance. A shop lifter doesn’t really care if they have intention to steal they will steal.
Playing jigsaw puzzles just to get what you need on overpriced items.
Stop nicking, innit.
Deters / delays thieves who think they’re on Supermarket Sweep
They are a minor inconvenience that law abiding shoppers have to put up with because a small group of society feel entitled to steal whatever isn’t locked away / behind a barrier / bolted down.
It doesn’t stop stealing completely but does prevent shelf-clearing into a bag-for-life for example, and is still cheaper than locking everything away completely.
It’s always been the same – the actions of the horrible minority affecting the well behaved majority, or the ‘bad apple effect’.
Slows down theft of high priced items, ‘scooping’ where an arm pulls down many packages at once is the generally accepted shop lifting style.
I guess that we just have to accept that this country is a no trust society now.
They’re because a shelf stackers job isn’t shit enough, gotta gamify and make a challenge
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