Nothing to do with racism just the stock that has the most shrinkage will be tagged. I’ve never thought it sexist that male razors are often tagged and female one’s usually aren’t.
> “As if the Clubcard segregation wasn’t enough. This made me feel so sick.”
What Clubcard segregation? Aren’t they free to get (and take advantage of?)
I do think they’re a bit of a shitty sales tactic as you basically have to have one to get a decent price in Tesco.
As for the matter of the boxes… it’d be interesting to know the truth of the data of whether one box is stolen more than another, rather than some Tesco employee merely *suspecting* that’s the case and security-tagging only one set.
“Clubcard segregation”
Theres actual injustice in the world folks… can we divert the perpetually offended there instead?
It’s going to come as a huge shock to her to realise they protect the items that get stolen the most…That’s why meat has tags, that’s why mens razor blades have tags.
This person is absolutely desperate to be a victim, she doesn’t even know how the world works.
Methods of loss prevention are done based on reams of data and are practically an automated process. Items that get stolen more frequently, which represent greater loss potential, or which have low inventory-to-high-cost outlay are secured more heavily. Neither are the security boxes free, nor the labor required to package them. You don’t spend the pennies at a high volume, low cost-plus store unless you need to.
This is just Tesco following its inventory pilferage. I doubt very seriously in 2022 that a multibillion pound company, and the largest grocer in the UK, is going out of their way antagonize black people.
These are being secured more because they’re stolen more.
Isn’t this article just pointing out black people steal more?
Jeez, some people have very little to occupy themselves.
Racial divide has been down right relentless the past two years
I understand why they had to do it, but it’s a shame Tesco felt the need to apologise and back down.
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People here talking about shrink computer analytics as if Tesco stores aren’t utter chaos behind the scenes lol. It’s a nice idea having everyone follow specific rules for things to be tagged or not and Tesco does have some rules. But in practice that all goes out the window very quickly when managers start making their own rules, we run out of tags for the light ones, the person supposed to be tagging the lighter ones can’t be arsed or is too busy etc etc. Tesco stores are a mess behind the scenes and there’s so many ways this could have happened.
If the facts back up that those shades are the most shoplifted…..is it still racism? 😶
So I’m assuming that this is one store. I imagine if it was nationwide it would have stated so in the article.
Sound to me.like the job was started by an employee and they either stopped, went home, in the middle of the job, or ran out of tags 1/2 way through tagging the department and used boxes to finish.
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Nothing to do with racism just the stock that has the most shrinkage will be tagged. I’ve never thought it sexist that male razors are often tagged and female one’s usually aren’t.
> “As if the Clubcard segregation wasn’t enough. This made me feel so sick.”
What Clubcard segregation? Aren’t they free to get (and take advantage of?)
I do think they’re a bit of a shitty sales tactic as you basically have to have one to get a decent price in Tesco.
As for the matter of the boxes… it’d be interesting to know the truth of the data of whether one box is stolen more than another, rather than some Tesco employee merely *suspecting* that’s the case and security-tagging only one set.
“Clubcard segregation”
Theres actual injustice in the world folks… can we divert the perpetually offended there instead?
It’s going to come as a huge shock to her to realise they protect the items that get stolen the most…That’s why meat has tags, that’s why mens razor blades have tags.
This person is absolutely desperate to be a victim, she doesn’t even know how the world works.
Methods of loss prevention are done based on reams of data and are practically an automated process. Items that get stolen more frequently, which represent greater loss potential, or which have low inventory-to-high-cost outlay are secured more heavily. Neither are the security boxes free, nor the labor required to package them. You don’t spend the pennies at a high volume, low cost-plus store unless you need to.
This is just Tesco following its inventory pilferage. I doubt very seriously in 2022 that a multibillion pound company, and the largest grocer in the UK, is going out of their way antagonize black people.
These are being secured more because they’re stolen more.
Isn’t this article just pointing out black people steal more?
Jeez, some people have very little to occupy themselves.
Racial divide has been down right relentless the past two years
I understand why they had to do it, but it’s a shame Tesco felt the need to apologise and back down.
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People here talking about shrink computer analytics as if Tesco stores aren’t utter chaos behind the scenes lol. It’s a nice idea having everyone follow specific rules for things to be tagged or not and Tesco does have some rules. But in practice that all goes out the window very quickly when managers start making their own rules, we run out of tags for the light ones, the person supposed to be tagging the lighter ones can’t be arsed or is too busy etc etc. Tesco stores are a mess behind the scenes and there’s so many ways this could have happened.
If the facts back up that those shades are the most shoplifted…..is it still racism? 😶
So I’m assuming that this is one store. I imagine if it was nationwide it would have stated so in the article.
Sound to me.like the job was started by an employee and they either stopped, went home, in the middle of the job, or ran out of tags 1/2 way through tagging the department and used boxes to finish.