Supermarket food in security cases?

MrsCatz

Our local Tesco Metro has put all the branded boxes of chocolates behind Perspex screens but not the meat or the cheese. 

mikb

ALDI: Security tags now stuck onto the Everyday Essentials cheese blocks.

calleyw

My local iceland has fresh meat like legs of lamb in clear security boxes.  Stealing to order is nothing new over 25 years ago had a friend of a friend asking me if wany any meat joints or branded razor blades.  Ummm no thanks

PLRFD

I have to ask Calley did it look like you needed the razor blades ? 😂

DigSunPap

I have seen Lurpack and legs of lamb in security cases in supermarkets around me.

dealyboy

Unfortunately safers, spiders, alarms, and soft and hard tags are not fool proof. Professional thieves will have openers and disablers that they either pick up from lax stores or online.

As theft spreads more and more and as deterrence disappears, locked cabinets will become the norm for lower and lower value products with the need to seek assistance to have them taken to the tills.

General_Grant

dealyboy said:

Unfortunately safers, spiders, alarms, and soft and hard tags are not fool proof. Professional thieves will have openers and disablers that they either pick up from lax stores or online.

As theft spreads more and more and as deterrence disappears, locked cabinets will become the norm for lower and lower value products with the need to seek assistance to have them taken to the tills.

As a child, before the days of these new-fangled self-service stors, I remember one had to ask the sales assistant for almost everything in the grocers.  Perhaps we will return to those days.

Jonboy_1984

Both our local sainsburys stores have had barriers installed, and you now need to scan a receipt to exit (or ask a member of staff to release them or follow someone else through if you haven't bought anything...) 

pumpkin89

General_Grant said:

As a child, before the days of these new-fangled self-service stors, I remember one had to ask the sales assistant for almost everything in the grocers.  Perhaps we will return to those days.

Not if the national living wage continues to increase at the rate it has the last few years!  To be clear, my political opinion is that it should - but from a business perspective this means it will remain cheaper to have stock as self-service and accept a (higher) level of stock loss through theft rather than employing more staff to assist customers.  This is why you see the major chains rolling out security and self-checkouts simultaneously!

molerat

When i worked in retail I remember all the barriers being ripped out as they "did not provide a positive shopping experience". We put some expensive items behind glass and were told by senior management to get them back out in the open, they started disappearing quicker than we could restock them ! Things have gone full circle as they always do, nothing is new.