UK X: Who Wants To Live Forever

[wakka]

My supermarket's in Peckham so to be fair they get pretty slap happy with the anti shoplifting stickers...

[Hirst]

The prices in supermarkets go way beyond inflation. One example I noticed was Titan bars (Mars bar clone) in Aldi. Every other week they’ve crept up steadily and over the course of about 6 months they’ve gone from 59p to 99p. That’s almost 70% up!

Something I’ve noticed as a direct consequence of the price inflation is absolutely rampant theft. Aldi have moved to a system where they require the staff to manually check your bags to see you haven’t nicked anything. All the supermarkets are constantly being robbed out of hours, you just drive past and there’ll be a smashed-in door or window. In the last few months, Aldi, Lidl and even Poundstretcher have had boarded up windows from burglaries. Some have replaced doors/windows so much that they’ve just left them boarded over. Shoplifting incidents happen more often than not now - I’m not exaggerating when I say about two thirds of visits somebody will run off with products and the staff will shout “another one, just made off with some meat” or whatever. Or the police will be with somebody outside, turning out their pockets.

To be honest, I don’t know how much longer I can put up with it. I feel like I’m living in Death Wish 3 less Charles Branson.

[Neon Ignition]

Turkey Dinosaurs have been made extinct!

They've swapped them out for Chicken Dinosaurs, presumably the meat costs less to produce

[Hirst]

Oh man, I noticed this last time I was in Tesco; it was on something daft like steak.

They’re a shoplifter favourite, they just take a pile of them and sell them as a job lot down the pub.

[Protocol Penguin]

Probably mentioned this, but my girlfriend went to Amsterdam and Paris last week for work, and she was telling me that a trip to Lidl in both countries revealed how much lower priced some products were compared to here. Anything dairy was almost half the price, adjusting for exchange rate.

[fishbowlhead]

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65707214

One thing I took away from this report on Sainsbury's allegedly profiteering from inflation pushing prices up is that it's obviously such a common practice in supermarkets that they've invented the term "greedflation".

Meanwhile the middle men are happy for the farmers to go pop, who we actually need, to survive.

[Golgo]

Perfectly 'decent' working blokes in my local pub see shoplifting as part of the overall sport of self-service checkouts. They pride themselves on making off with a bit extra every time.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Might not be illegal Phil, but its dodgy as ****.
And this can't be the first and only time....

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/22493298/phillip-schofield-affair-younger-itv-this-morning/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunshowbiztwitter&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1685120117-5

[Yakumo]

Perfectly 'decent' working blokes in my local pub see shoplifting as part of the overall sport of self-service checkouts. They pride themselves on making off with a bit extra every time.

Sound like a bunch of dicks. No matter the reason, steeling **** is nothing to be proud of. It just makes you look like scum and a bit of a twat if I'm being honest.
Steeling food to survive is another thing but I'm sure those guys aren't steeling to stop themselves form dying of starvation.

[Neon Ignition]

‘Cars have more rights than people’: Glasgow residents rail against rise of drive-through restaurants | Glasgow | The Guardian
Reminds me of when a small village objects to new developments and then years later the locals wonder why the town is dead
Just say you don't want a Starbucks rather than dribble sheer nonsense

[Brad]

Sound like a bunch of dicks. No matter the reason, steeling **** is nothing to be proud of. It just makes you look like scum and a bit of a twat if I'm being honest.
Steeling food to survive is another thing but I'm sure those guys aren't steeling to stop themselves form dying of starvation.

If supermarkets are being greedy I don’t see why people should wait until they’re close to starvation before taking steps to redress the balance.

[cutmymilk]

I don't feel sorry for supermarkets at all. At my local Tesco Express it isn't unusual for there to be zero staff near the tills and all having a laugh at the back of the store. You have to walk around to find someone if you want to buy asprin.

[Hirst]

Sound like a bunch of dicks. No matter the reason, steeling **** is nothing to be proud of. It just makes you look like scum and a bit of a twat if I'm being honest.
Steeling food to survive is another thing but I'm sure those guys aren't steeling to stop themselves form dying of starvation.

I think in a country like the UK, legitimately needing to steal food to survive is just not likely. I think if you were hungry and asked somebody for food, you'd probably get it. We aren't the kind of place where we have kids going through rubbish bags pulling meat off discarded chicken bones, as bad as it is sometimes. You might have to eat some pretty unremarkable food but you'd never starve. Even when I was super poor growing up my family never robbed anything, I can't say I knew anyone who did (certainly nobody who would boast of it). That included my mate who was so poor he thought a sandwich was a folded-over piece of buttered bread and my other mate who had a house with almost no furniture and just cooked potatoes on the fire with a fork for weeks while he saved up for an oven.

Going in the supermarket and robbing the self-checkouts isn't likely to filter down to the greedy owners and impact the shareholder dividends, it's likely just going to get the self-checkout and security team in bother and have them facing a disciplinary for not doing their job or mysteriously finding not as many hours to be offered on their zero-hour contract. It's a real scumbag move that only hurts people at the bottom and makes it so when ordinary working stiffs are in the supermarket they have to wait for somebody to take all the security tags off everything because people keep walking out with it.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/28/more-than-half-of-voters-now-want-britain-to-forge-closer-ties-with-the-eu-poll-reveals

Support for closer ties with the EU increases to over 50% according to a new poll

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/28/suella-bravermans-leadership-hopes-dented-as-public-support-plummets

Apparently Bravermans leadership hopes have fallen due to a drop in public support in her.
Not being funny but she needed to drop that hope at the door, was never going to happen