Remember folks, if you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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I work for coles and I always give them a nod of approval then walk off like nothing happend when I see people stealing, fuck coles, they profited over a billion dollars last year off of ripping of customers and workers.
Yeah, of you feel guilty, buy them something.
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Alternate headline : "Supermarkets have jacked the prices so high, making record profits in tough times, that people have resorted to stealing in order to live".
I saw a shitty looking steak at coles the other day, over $60 a KG. It had bloody RFID sensors on it. What a world.
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Pay people more so theft goes down? Fucking never!
Give body cameras to staff. Sounds perfect
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In Australia Woolies and Coles are artificially jacking prices up, this isn't about wages but about corporate greed using inflation as a disguise to rip off literally everyone. Instead they should be forced to lower prices.
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Considering how much shit I see retail workers go through, this... honestly seems like a rational response. I'm sure it will immediately turn into middle managers using it to abuse employees of course though.
Sure, a rational response in a dystopian country
My life has gotten so fucked I'm starting to think about shoplifting just to feed myself.
Yeah, that’s about where our society is pushing people. I hope you find better work - I know that sound like a platitude, but try reaching out to people you know and hope for luck. You deserve a living wage and respect.
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Don't like the increasing surveillance but this seems like a pro worker move actually. You don't have to turn them on to be a snitch, you just have to turn them on if you're being harassed. I got fired after being harassed by a customer and my employer took their side. If I had footage of it and audio then things might have been different
2 employees in the store
riiiiiiiiight
Kinda like grocery store bitching about people abusing self check out kiosks 🤡
What are you talking about?
I only buy bananas at self checkout, it's the reason I go to self checkout.
50lbs of bananas and nothing else.
Avocados and all sorts of other pricey things look really yellow and oblong when there's no manned registers open. I've never been confronted about the 4-6 bananas I buy when I used the self check. I really wonder if they can even prosecute you. You just did a bad job, guess they should fire you from your unpaid employment.
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I wouldn't have to abuse the self checkouts if they just shut the fuck up and let me do the job they're not paying me to do.
I’m 99% sure we’re gonna start seeing an uptick in employees “accidentally” obscuring and/or destroying these body cams
The cameras aren't on at all times. Employees are supposed to turn on the cameras to record abusive behavior by scumbags because the company found that people who were stealing were also abusive towards staff in 1 in 4 incidents. It's so employees have a record of the interaction. This also means when the thieving piece of shit makes fake complaints its even easier to ignore because the employee has proof.
Having said all that, if you see someone stealing food, no you didn't.
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but retail employees will get fired, unlike police
They're not police, they actually have accountability.
The comments about poor independent grocer Coles is doing my head in.
In the USA shoplifting is up because most states no longer prosecute. Which is also the reason a lot of retailers have or are in the process of closing stores in big cities. Had a friend that worked at Riteaid, once a week several women would come in with trash bags and empty the makeup section. Even with them on video nothing came on it.
Well, the police have to do work and find the people. You can't expect the police to actually do anything. That's asking way to much. Ask anyone who's ever needed the police to do their jobs (aside from beating or shooting folks who don't pass the patented brown paper bag text of course).
I’m sorry, but that is just not accurate (they also shoot your dog, when they try to enter the wrong house)
Shoplifting is up by a very, very inconsequential amount, stores aren't closing from it
He is right when it comes to the UK though: Article today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66819837 Earlier this week, referencing violence towards shop keepers too. Coop having a very rough time with it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66784250
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The supermarket recently announced a $1.1 billion annual profit, but it also reported a spike in shoplifting and attacks directed at staff.
Theft is costing Australian grocery giants hundreds of millions of dollars annually, with Coles reporting a 20 per cent jump in stock loss.
"The use of these cameras has seen a substantial reduction in the amount of abuse and physical incidents our teams have faced," a Woolworths spokesperson said.
Retail theft is up across the board, driven by the rising cost of living, according to the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees' Association.
Mr Peak says while the association welcomes the use of cameras, it believes they should only be used for deterring or filming threats towards staff, rather than "asset protection" for supermarkets.
"We don't want any suggestion that workers are some kind of mobile security camera – that's where we can absolutely see this actually [causing] violence and abuse."
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