Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "A country where cheese is fitted with security tags | James O'Brien - The Whole Show" video.
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Really?? Do they run out with tags, going EEEEEEE as they run out the door?? Aren't they banned from the store?
I think that security guards are allowed to "grab" people like that, you know. Anyway. I remember they used to be a LOT more strict in shops, in the UK in the 90s and 2000s; I remember some poor guy in the recession of the 90s, obviously wanting to steal a toy for his kid (it was coming up to Christmas) ROCKETING out of a non-automatic glass door in the old Woolworths in Newquay, Cornwall (he nearly knocked me over: would have done if he'd exited one door down!): running up the steep hill at the side of the Woolworths - and a uniformed male shop assistant in hot pursuit of him on foot! The thief apparently soon lost his nerve though: and dropped the stolen goods somewhere at the top of one of the paths: but I heard the shop assistant on a walkie talkie or something; saying to his colleague that they should look for this guy in the car parks in the streets above the town, or something! 🙄 Definitely a very zealous shop assistant, and no store detective, either! (Nowadays they would just try and track the guy on the CCTV cameras that have mushroomed everywhere, though.)
And in the 2000s, shops like big supermarkets had policies that stated they would prosecute every shoplifter, no matter how trivial. I suppose preferring to push the burden of shoplifting kids (because it was mostly kids and teens then doing it) onto their cash-strapped council estate parents. I wonder why they stopped doing that? Maybe because the parents wouldn't/couldn't pay the fines/restitution? 🤷🏻♀️
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