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ikt ( Eyekaytee@aussie.zone )  to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months ago

Greggs unveils 'fortress stores' in crackdown on shoplifting surge | LBC

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Greggs unveils 'fortress stores' in crackdown on shoplifting surge | LBC

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ikt ( Eyekaytee@aussie.zone )  to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months ago
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The bakery chain - known for its sausage rolls, steak bakes and pastries - will introduce "fortress stores" in areas where it has been most affected by shoplifting
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  • fakeman_pretendname ( fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ) 
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    These new “Fortress stores where people order the food from the person behind the counter instead of serving themselves” sound quite a lot like what we used to call “a normal Greggs”.

    • ikt ( Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ) OP
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      sadly in our “modern society” we can’t trust people to do the right thing

      • fakeman_pretendname ( fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ) 
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        With the right thing being “not replacing 3 members of staff with self-service shelves or tills”?

        • Che Banana ( The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 
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          or increasing wages to keep pace with inflation?

        • ikt ( Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ) OP
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          i prefer self checkout because it’s far faster and easier and I’m a big boy who can pay for the items I purchase

          However obviously not everyone is like me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsdP2trO0

          • Zombie ( Zombie@feddit.uk ) 
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            Oh, well if it alleviates your social anxieties and makes you feel like a big boy then by all means let’s get rid of jobs for millions of people!

            • ikt ( Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ) OP
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              Sure? I would never ask someone to do a useless job just … because?

              While we’re at it we should bring back those guys who hung around all day just to stick your petrol pump in your car!

              A filling station attendant!

              EV’s are also banned because that would reduce the number of petrol pumpers

              Any other worthless jobs we should bring back to help ol mate give people jobs?

              Alarm clocks! Also now banned

              https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35840393

              Bring back the Knocker uppers! 🤣

              • Zombie ( Zombie@feddit.uk ) 
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                Right, but shop attendants do far more than just beep your items through. As evidenced by this very article that you’ve posted. It’s not a useless job.

                Customers are not employees, we have no reason to ensure our transactions go through properly. That’s the business’s responsibility, not ours.

                Self service has a place, but not as a complete replacement for human beings entirely, as many businesses are trying to push.

                • ikt ( Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ) OP
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                  Customers are not employees, we have no reason to ensure our transactions go through properly

                  Except that it’s against the law to steal

              • Baggins ( baggins@beehaw.org ) 
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                And people to turn on street lights.

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    Or people could just stop nicking things.

    • Zombie ( Zombie@feddit.uk ) 
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      Do you think people are stealing sausage rolls in order to get rich?

      Do you think Greggs, a FTSE 250 company which has driven out thousands of local bakeries and pays their workers a pittance, while making vast profits, aren’t nicking value from around the country to fill the fat pockets of a few?

      • Baggins ( baggins@beehaw.org ) 
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        Didn’t say that at all. You’ve got your own agenda though, as you’ve proved by jumping to conclusions.

        Have a nice day.

        • sunbeam60 ( sunbeam60@feddit.uk ) 
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          It’s Lemmy’s Law - within a comment depth of 2, all discussions evolve into a discussion of communism and/or anarchy.

        • Zombie ( Zombie@feddit.uk ) 
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          What things do you think people are nicking from a Greggs other than food then?

          • fakeman_pretendname ( fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ) 
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            They are stealing hearts.

            Bandcamp - “The Lady in Greggs” by The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican

  • HM King Charles III DG FD ( Flax_vert@feddit.uk ) 
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    Install sausage roll detectors at the doors

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