| In "this is not a serious country" news 00:02 - Apr 6 with 1072 views | baxterbasics |
Depressing. Not just the individual case (Shame on Waitrose) but the general tolerance of low level crime like we just have to accept it. Feels like managed decline.
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 01:05 - Apr 6 with 963 views | Illinoisblue |
It’s all so stupid. With any luck, someone will start a gofundme for him. Stores should taser all shoplifters anyway. |  |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 06:19 - Apr 6 with 812 views | cressi |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 01:05 - Apr 6 by Illinoisblue |
It’s all so stupid. With any luck, someone will start a gofundme for him. Stores should taser all shoplifters anyway. |
Very few decent companies out there best thing do what you have to do no more there is no reward go home when shift finishes and forget till you have to go in the next time. |  | | |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 06:53 - Apr 6 with 757 views | Benters |
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the feral youth wrecking havoc in Clapham yet?
As for old matey this country has gone bonkers.
Shoplift anything up to £199 you carry on mate,£200 you might get a visit from the police to the store.
Like I said it’s bonkers! |  |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 08:07 - Apr 6 with 638 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 06:53 - Apr 6 by Benters |
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the feral youth wrecking havoc in Clapham yet?
As for old matey this country has gone bonkers.
Shoplift anything up to £199 you carry on mate,£200 you might get a visit from the police to the store.
Like I said it’s bonkers! |
I could be wide of the mark here, but didn't the exact same thing that happened in Clapham happen a couple of years ago? Again in London, IIRC it was all organised over Tik-Tok then? |  |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 08:16 - Apr 6 with 604 views | WinchBlue |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 06:53 - Apr 6 by Benters |
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the feral youth wrecking havoc in Clapham yet?
As for old matey this country has gone bonkers.
Shoplift anything up to £199 you carry on mate,£200 you might get a visit from the police to the store.
Like I said it’s bonkers! |
nuts 😜 |  | | |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 08:51 - Apr 6 with 544 views | Benters |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 08:07 - Apr 6 by Cheltenham_Blue |
I could be wide of the mark here, but didn't the exact same thing that happened in Clapham happen a couple of years ago? Again in London, IIRC it was all organised over Tik-Tok then? |
I don’t know it’s not a great look though is it hundreds of feral youth smashing shops up in our capital city. | |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 09:04 - Apr 6 with 501 views | Blue_Heath |
100% agree and shame on Waitrose treating a loyal employee in this way. | |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 09:23 - Apr 6 with 440 views | tcblue |
Are we skirting over the fact he'd specifically been warned not to do it before?
I can understand why the store doesn't want to encourage their staff getting injured (or worse) tackling petty theft. Still a damning statement on the state of crime in our country, but I don't think Waitrose could win here | | | |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 09:34 - Apr 6 with 421 views | Benters |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 09:23 - Apr 6 by tcblue |
Are we skirting over the fact he'd specifically been warned not to do it before?
I can understand why the store doesn't want to encourage their staff getting injured (or worse) tackling petty theft. Still a damning statement on the state of crime in our country, but I don't think Waitrose could win here |
The ‘big Tescos’ I use their security guards are often chasing people for pinching alcohol,one couple of young girls had over £700 in value on them,and their coats had specialised pockets stitched into the inside of their puffa coats,so they could swipe the bottles. | |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 09:53 - Apr 6 with 369 views | tcblue |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 09:34 - Apr 6 by Benters |
The ‘big Tescos’ I use their security guards are often chasing people for pinching alcohol,one couple of young girls had over £700 in value on them,and their coats had specialised pockets stitched into the inside of their puffa coats,so they could swipe the bottles. |
Fascinating. Was this chap a security guard? | | | |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 10:08 - Apr 6 with 330 views | redrickstuhaart |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 06:53 - Apr 6 by Benters |
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the feral youth wrecking havoc in Clapham yet?
As for old matey this country has gone bonkers.
Shoplift anything up to £199 you carry on mate,£200 you might get a visit from the police to the store.
Like I said it’s bonkers! |
A rule brought in by the conservatives, who are now your reform buddies! (though thats not actually an accurate explanation of the rule) | |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 10:53 - Apr 6 with 232 views | wischip |
That's just a big advert for our feral yoof to ransack every Waitrose of its remaining overpriced Easter eggs now. The country's gone. |  | | |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 10:57 - Apr 6 with 207 views | redrickstuhaart |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 10:53 - Apr 6 by wischip |
That's just a big advert for our feral yoof to ransack every Waitrose of its remaining overpriced Easter eggs now. The country's gone. |
No. The country hasn't "gone".
There is a current issue, born of reduction in police funding, an unhelpful change to the law by the preivous government, and it being topic of the day.
60 years ago it was "mods and rockers fighting on brighton beach in broad daylight. Country's gone." What a load of to55. | |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 11:13 - Apr 6 with 171 views | urbanpenguin |
At the risk of inflating this kind of non-story into something bigger.
and also not to belittle it. Such crowd shoplifting is not new - i saw an interesting interview with some locals who said that while it's horrid, kids of their (two different) generations did similar and had different names for it.
That said, to be a bystander, shopkeeper, or caught up in it, it can obviously be very scary.
I think it is partly a product of defunding youth projects, youth clubs, community facilities, sport groups etc, so a whole generation are growing up in a defunded state with little hope or trajectory.
I feel sorry for the shopkeeper. He had been warned. And, frankly, if I was working for a soulless multinational on near-minimum wage, I would in no way stop somebody shoplifting, it's more than my job or health is worth.
Anyway, most importantly from it all, the Clapham Waitrose is a short cycle from me and from the article I now know that the best days for me to go and shoplift are Mondays and Tuesdays when they have no security. Thank for the tipoff! |  | | |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 11:47 - Apr 6 with 107 views | homer_123 |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 09:04 - Apr 6 by Blue_Heath |
100% agree and shame on Waitrose treating a loyal employee in this way. |
Loyal employees treated the same as loyal shoplifters! |  |
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| In "this is not a serious country" news on 12:12 - Apr 6 with 56 views | NedPlimpton |
| In "this is not a serious country" news on 11:13 - Apr 6 by urbanpenguin |
At the risk of inflating this kind of non-story into something bigger.
and also not to belittle it. Such crowd shoplifting is not new - i saw an interesting interview with some locals who said that while it's horrid, kids of their (two different) generations did similar and had different names for it.
That said, to be a bystander, shopkeeper, or caught up in it, it can obviously be very scary.
I think it is partly a product of defunding youth projects, youth clubs, community facilities, sport groups etc, so a whole generation are growing up in a defunded state with little hope or trajectory.
I feel sorry for the shopkeeper. He had been warned. And, frankly, if I was working for a soulless multinational on near-minimum wage, I would in no way stop somebody shoplifting, it's more than my job or health is worth.
Anyway, most importantly from it all, the Clapham Waitrose is a short cycle from me and from the article I now know that the best days for me to go and shoplift are Mondays and Tuesdays when they have no security. Thank for the tipoff! |
Pedants corner, but Waitrose is hardly a soulless multinational |  | | |
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