Tesco Hoover Building yesterday: every bottle is now caged and locked in a locker. Do they just need an electric fence and a security dog to complete the setup?
How did we get to this point?

by iamuyga

26 comments

  1. Security guards are told not to intervene, shoplifted goods under £200 are dealt with via fixed penalty notice which is no deterrent to someone who never intends to pay it.

    They’ve got to try something or the prices for us will be going up even further.

  2. Yeah it’s mad, Finsbury Park Tesco even has chocolate security boxed up

  3. Record highs of shoplifting. I’d say this is a taste of things to come. We might go back to the days of shops keeping everything behind a counter again.

  4. Lived in London from early 2000s – 2013 and hadn’t been back for a visit since pre covid. Was absolutely stunned at the differences in the place since I left when I visited again last year.

  5. Nah, we have a long way to go yet, we still don’t have the entire shop behind bulletproof glass and needing to pay through the bulletproof turn table before getting anything, I was shocked how much was just out on shelves when I first moved here.

  6. It’s my local Tesco and bottle theft was off the scale. Local rumours are that the guy that was murdered after being followed from there was in an altercation with one of the shoplifters, so I’m guessing this is just safer all round.

  7. This might genuinly be the biggest culture shock for me when I visit the UK (from Holland).

  8. It’s like this in South Wales and Birmingham. I was shocked the first time I saw it as well.

  9. It genuinely is community to community. My local co-op on the high street, shit area, they are sealing up meat in the plastic boxes you used to put DVD box sets in, but other stores aren’t doing that. The Sainsburys near all the student lettings has coin slots on the trolleys, but the newer one which is too much of a walk for most people and so only really accessible by vehicle doesn’t. Sorry to say it’s a sign of your neighborhood but as more pop up and housing grows it will probably become more common.

  11. Yep, saw this yesterday in my local Asda. A sobering sight. No pun intended.

  12. San Fransisco says hi. Closing down shop is the next step 🙂

  13. Those security features aren’t cheap either. More costs for the customer

  14. First time I saw these bags I was really excited because I didn’t realise it was an anti-theft device.

    I just thought I was getting a little pirate loot bag with my drink. I was really sad at the till when I learned the sad reality.

  15. I’ve been out of the UK for a while but £22 for Tanqueray seems quite reasonable.

  17. My local, residential area Sainsbury’s just installed a panic cage for staff. Crazy.

  19. Stop complaining bigot. They are just feeding their families with the litre bottle of Gordon’s.

  20. That’s pretty f**ked up. I mean there is more chance of you getting done for driving on a bus lane or streaming on a Firestick, than shoplifting.

    Should bring in a law so that shoplifters can face a baseball bat from staff.

  21. It takes many 100s of years to build a high trust society, only a few years to destroy it.

  22. Shoplifting has become too easy and hence out if control, police uninterested in helping, companies losing thousands of pounds weekly due to this, government’s cuts and lack of Will to tackle this problem … obvious outcome I would say unfortunately

  23. I was in Nottingham recently and the cans of Red Bull in a Sainsburys had this – I can’t remember the exact number, but I chatted to the guy who had to serve me, he said the previous month it was something in the tens of thousands of pounds worth of cans got nicked! Mind boggling, I felt sure that couldn’t have been right, but that’s what he told me

  24. I went to NYC in September last year and visited a CVS. In these stores EVERYTHING is locked away even sun cream and you have to press a button for a store assist every time you need something.

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