Maybe shops will go back to a ‘behind the counter’ type shop front.
It must be awful for shop workers.
This is shocking. People are just taking what they want.
This government has lost control when it comes to shop lifting. We all end up paying more at the till because of shop lifting. A lot of its just down to greed and opportunistic.
This government has let hard-working British business communities all across the country down. By failing to prosecute shoplifters. This will damage business confidence in the UK and affect out GDP.
Nope let the free market take care of it. If people just want bookies and chicken shops in their community so be it.
> The retailers, who also include the bosses of Aldi, Primark and Superdrug, call for the creation of a new UK-wide aggravated offence of assaulting or abusing a retail worker – as already exists in Scotland – which would carry tougher sentences and require police to record all incidents of retail crime and allow the allocation of more resources.
Assaulting a shop worker shouldn’t carry any different sentence than assaulting a random person in the street. Does there really need to be a special offence to improve recording of incidents?
> Some experts argue that technology such as self-checkouts and the display of expensive goods on shelves, rather than behind counters served by staff, have contributed to the problems.
So this is a problem the stores have, at least partially, brought upon themselves.
Anecdotally, I have not seen an increase in security personnel at my local stores.
The police, with their restricted budgets and resources, should focus on gang-level activities, but the stores are still also responsible for deterrence and dealing with localized, low-level issues.
From what I can see the stores are attempting to put shirk their responsibilities and rely entirely on the police.
In an ideal world, the police would have the resources they need to tackle this and everyone would be paid enough that they don’t have to worry about a roof over their head and food in their fridge. Unfortunately we don’t live there. The “executive elite” is as much in charge as the “political elite”, and they must take some responsibility.
Lock the doors and let them in one at a time after swiping their credit card and showing id.
remember those people called *store security* they did away with because they where allowed to bully their staff into acting as deterrent? i do.
Perhaps a properly funded police force and criminal justice system might help?
Unless something serious is done to address this, I fear anarchy.
Well some of us plebs who work for major UK retailers (specifically a Tesco Express here) have been begging our managers for the past 18 months to bring security guards back to our shops and all they kept saying was there’s no budget for it.
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Maybe shops will go back to a ‘behind the counter’ type shop front.
It must be awful for shop workers.
This is shocking. People are just taking what they want.
This government has lost control when it comes to shop lifting. We all end up paying more at the till because of shop lifting. A lot of its just down to greed and opportunistic.
This government has let hard-working British business communities all across the country down. By failing to prosecute shoplifters. This will damage business confidence in the UK and affect out GDP.
Nope let the free market take care of it. If people just want bookies and chicken shops in their community so be it.
> The retailers, who also include the bosses of Aldi, Primark and Superdrug, call for the creation of a new UK-wide aggravated offence of assaulting or abusing a retail worker – as already exists in Scotland – which would carry tougher sentences and require police to record all incidents of retail crime and allow the allocation of more resources.
Assaulting a shop worker shouldn’t carry any different sentence than assaulting a random person in the street. Does there really need to be a special offence to improve recording of incidents?
> Some experts argue that technology such as self-checkouts and the display of expensive goods on shelves, rather than behind counters served by staff, have contributed to the problems.
So this is a problem the stores have, at least partially, brought upon themselves.
Anecdotally, I have not seen an increase in security personnel at my local stores.
The police, with their restricted budgets and resources, should focus on gang-level activities, but the stores are still also responsible for deterrence and dealing with localized, low-level issues.
From what I can see the stores are attempting to put shirk their responsibilities and rely entirely on the police.
These same stores (like many other businesses) also need to look at the wages they pay. The [real living wage](https://www.livingwage.org.uk/what-real-living-wage) is currently just shy of £11/hour (£12/hour in London), but according to [an article in Retail Gazette from February](https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2023/02/shop-floor-pay-how-the-uks-biggest-retailers-compare/) many aren’t paying that.
In an ideal world, the police would have the resources they need to tackle this and everyone would be paid enough that they don’t have to worry about a roof over their head and food in their fridge. Unfortunately we don’t live there. The “executive elite” is as much in charge as the “political elite”, and they must take some responsibility.
Lock the doors and let them in one at a time after swiping their credit card and showing id.
remember those people called *store security* they did away with because they where allowed to bully their staff into acting as deterrent? i do.
Perhaps a properly funded police force and criminal justice system might help?
Unless something serious is done to address this, I fear anarchy.
Well some of us plebs who work for major UK retailers (specifically a Tesco Express here) have been begging our managers for the past 18 months to bring security guards back to our shops and all they kept saying was there’s no budget for it.