Nothing says Freedom and Democracy like having cages around everything and signs telling you you’re being surveilled
You could argue that the last right people have in the west is the right to consume and even that is getting paywalled.
Always was
Feels very much last stage capitalism isn’t it
When you’re a normal store in a normal political climate thinking normal thoughts about the people you cohabitate society with
What
How do you access that? Where I am in the US, you have to ask an employee to use their key to get past theft gates, but I don’t see any locks there to slot a key into. Besides, the “get an employee” method seems like it would either need too many extra employees or hinder shopping too much to scale it out past the really expensive stuff
I know that profits aren’t actually the point of these, but this still seems asinine
yeah I’m baffled by these. I mean, in general I think most ‘anti-theft’ shit big stores do is dumb and pointless - but if you’re gonna do an anti-theft measure, why do the one that is guaranteed to make me feel like an asshole when I tell the cashier I need two things of detergent and also six candy bars (and then awkwardly send them back when they bring back the wrong kind of candy bar). At least the security boxes can be put in your cart and brought to checkout, but I guess the store managers were like “uh, no way we’re paying someone to individually box all these candy bars” like this:
Not sure how bad it is currently in the UK. But aside from your point about feeling like an asshole for bothering a worker to get something for you. As a worker in a big box electronics store in the US, the corpos already have reduced staffing so freaking much while still 1000% freaking out if so much as two people get close enough to even hint at a line forming. While the customers also seem to be of the same opinion as the corpos with the loud moaning about how long it takes to “be helped.” So needing the already thin stretched staff to field even more utterly pointless shit pisses me off. On the plus-side, this open hostility of the rich to workers might actually be the thing that sparks revolts (would really really really love to see mass class awakening and maybe a lot of shit on fire like the French seem to do so well). But with the shoppers also being on team “fuck you lazy workers” and bootlicking the fuck out of the corps. I am guessing it is too easy to just never have popular support so long as all the range is carefully pointed at all of us.
how’s that brexit going uk?
ah nevermind, terf-island was sliding towards fascism already
I wonder how many people are willing to go look for a staff member just to get a single chocolate bar. Seems to me that they’re just kneecapping themselves.
It’s a conspiracy by Yorkie, Twix and Lion.
Seems like it would be more of a conspiracy of health folks to make getting junk food to annoying to bother with.
When do they accept that there is a problem?
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Serious question: being from the US, and knowing that the £is a little less than the dollar, those chocolate prices don’t look bad at all. If that is the cost now, how much was it in the past? Chocolate here is at least double those prices where I’m at.
That being said, I am starting to see anti-theft stuff on the meat in the US.
The pound is more than the dollar, currently 1.29 dollars to 1 pound.
Damn, I read it backwards.
Cratering your sales to own the shoplifters
“Damnit, I never even considered supermarkets!”It’d be nice if there were anti-theft gates to stop
from further looting the NHS.Oh hey it’s a supermarket cope cage.
This does jack shit. You don’t take the product and smoothly pocket it there and then, most thieves pick it up looking totally normal then pocket it somewhere else in the store. In Asda the skateboard kids who hang out in the same spot every weekend go and nick alcohol and snacks, they tend to use the clothing aisle for it.
Damn, I was just looking to post a rant about this because a couple of stores near me started up with this shit in the last few weeks and I was seething over it because of how reactionary and sad it is. One store locked up entire aisles of household goods, toiletries, and medicine. The other just has a couple of brands of laundry detergents, cleaners, and pills locked behind glass. Now I require a personal shopper to come along with me to open up multiple cabinets so I can buy laundry detergent, mouthwash, deodorant, razors, and allergy meds. What if I need to look at labels? What if I decide I don’t want something? Do I need to flag several employees to open each of the cages? It’s not like these places are (or will be) staffed with enough people for there to be constant coverage of these cordoned off areas.
Best of all, both stores that did this by me are all-self-checkout deals with maybe one manned register, so any enterprising person could still simply pocket whatever they want after freeing it from its cage. This is in the US btw, in a “progressive” northeast city and state.
So glad these chains pushed out all the smaller, locally-owned competition so there’s nowhere else to go unless you waste time shopping around for stores outside your neighborhood that don’t deserve to be burned to the ground for this type of garbage, and go out of your way to get to them. So happy to live in a city where the few indoor spaces I go these days have become so openly hostile to everyone it makes me want to just order everything online.
I decided not to set foot into these places now, though I’m starting to think it’d be better praxis to go in and waste everyone’s time by incessantly reading every label on every product and comparison shopping while they have to stand there the whole time with the cases open. Or get a bunch of items then decide later that I don’t want them and leave them on random shelves. Or decide I need to “call” someone to confirm this was the ointment I was supposed to pick up, then read off the ingredients just to be sure.
Man, the UK seems so bleak. It really feels like it’s in a downward spiral
