Greggs rolls back self-service cabinets in shoplifting hotspots : casualuk

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They killed off a lot of independent bakeries, so fuck Greggs.

[–] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah it was super disappointing living in the UK and all the coffee shops and bakeries within walking distance were these crap chains. Often across the street from each other

[–] 098qwelkjzxc@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Greggs sausage rolls are shite

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Increase in rent prices, in loans, increase in costs of electricity, services - and of course food. Not to mention shrinkflation, cutting out nutrition and putting in more filler, etc.

And so the grosser monopolies woke up to smell their own coffee and make cashiers glorified security guards - without the benefit of added pay.

They screw us in any way, shape or form they can.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cashiers are rarely permitted to do anything about shoplifting for what it's worth. When they do (and why you would I don't know) they often get disciplined or fired. And the labelled as jobsworths by the gutter press when they follow "company procedure".

It's basically the breakdown of the social contract, as engineered by a small group of people and then blamed on the rest of us.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

My sister onetime just snatched a shoplifter's bag

Don't know why you'd even bother, she was working for a well established chain

[+] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

That is great and all, but now because of the increase in theft you are going to see more products locked behind the counter. Welcome to the low trust society you took part in creating.

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Companies already don't trust their customers. I have had no hand or say in that.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They used to have enough trust that you wouldn't steal everything on the shelves. Now in some places they don't even do that.

[–] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If only there was a social solution... An -ism of sorts. /s

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism!

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Oi oi lads pack it in, rule 1, rule 1, or else ye will be goin to the sin bin so ye will

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Shoplifting was rife in the 90s and 2000s, and it was an acceptable business loss that most small business and retailers alike just shrugged off.

This new narrative that shoplifting is the reason that security measures and prices have to go up is just the latest strategy in corporations once more fobbing off blame on the end-consumer (a la "carbon footprint") for why they need to jack up prices again.

It's greed, plain and simple. We used to have high trust soceities and rampant shoplifting not too long ago, but we're being distracted once again

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 months ago

I still wait in line d for an actual person. I feel so insulted when I'm forced to use the machine and it's constantly yelling to put the item here or did i use any bags like, bitch you have a camera on me the whole time! You yelled about my bags because they where not an item i scanned how the fuck are you now asking me if i used any bags. Fuck the machines.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

People solved this problem some time back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

An automat is a fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine, typically without waitstaff.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

What, and pay for a) some new machines, b) people to maintain them? Get wrecked. (Not that I'm a cynic).

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