Locked up.

[Scrumpy]

Saturday I went into Boots to buy a lippy..
I didn't know what I wanted.. I wanted to check out the shades on offer from the many different brands..
All the cosmetics were behind glass under lock and key..
A notice read 'Ask one of our staff and they will open a cabinet of your choice'
That means ..
Finding someone who was free..
Standing by whilst me and my mate chatted over colours.
Unlocking another cabinet and doing the same..
Unlocking maybe a couple more..
Unlocking the first cabinet because there was a lippy in there that I thought I liked..
Changing my mind and looking at a choice in the third cabinet...
What a carry on..  I didn't bother to look for an assistant..
There were no other customers looking in cabinets..
How sad this is when we have to lock up our lippy because of shoplifting..

[JBR]

I don't know much about lipstick... no, really, I don't.
However, I do understand why shops are beginning to lock up at least some of their products, because the crime of shoplifting is on the increase to the extent that now the government (in their wisdom) are legally turning a blind eye to any shoplifting, if under £200 in value.
I fully expect that before long online shopping will begin to exceed high-street shops.  If not, expect increased prices imposed to cover losses through theft.

[Mups]

Not at all surprised Scrumpy.

The lady at Tesco told me just the same about so much getting stolen.

Thing is,  if they are allowed to take £200 worth without fear of prosecution,  and they are going from shop to shop taking another couple of hundred from each place,   they've only got to do 5 shops to have a grands worth of stuff for nought, and presumably, without being nicked.
That'll be all their Christmas shopping sorted!

[klondike]

Do it again next week and the week after and you have a nice little business that not even Rachel  will be able to bankrupt with tax.

I thought the first story would be health and safety.

[JBR]

Not at all surprised Scrumpy.

The lady at Tesco told me just the same about so much getting stolen.

Thing is,  if they are allowed to take £200 worth without fear of prosecution,  and they are going from shop to shop taking another couple of hundred from each place,  they've only got to do 5 shops to have a grands worth of stuff for nought, and presumably, without being nicked.
That'll be all their Christmas shopping sorted!

A good idea!  I'll be very surprised if one day such an event will be reported in the news.
It actually does sound a good idea.  In fact, I might even try it myself, but I'll take the precaution of doing it in shops nowhere near I live, and take the precaution of putting my proceeds into the car and removing any labels before driving off to a different shop.
It could work quite well because, as I'm sure everyone here knows, I am a good, honest, upstanding citizen and look like it.

[Scrumpy]

Gone are the days when we would sneak a sweet from the Pick-A-Mix..

I must admit to doing this in a store recently.. I just wanted to see If I could do it..
 Happy memories.. 

[Dextrous63]

Gone are the days when we would sneak a sweet from the Pick-A-Mix..

I must admit to doing this in a store recently.. I just wanted to see If I could do it..
 Happy memories.. 

I've asked a few local bobbies to pop round to chat you you about this...



Kill the acorn, stop the tree.  That's my motto 😬😬😬

[Scrumpy]

I'll get some sweets in for them...

[muddy]

I was looking at some nice sheets on a display bed in a store but couldn't find them on the shelf.
Eventually a girl came and said the same .
We lock those ones up otherwise they get stolen .

[Mups]

Sheets??  Good grief.  They are hardly a small thing thieves can drop in their pocket!

They have all the perfumes locked away in Tesco's too.

[Dextrous63]

It's a sad sign of the times, I guess.

Although, for some reason Are You Being Served, Argos, Open All Hours etc spring to mind, in which one had to ask a shop assistant up get something out of the back/stockroom for us.  

Maybe we're regressing to that kind of service due to shoplifting? 

[klondike]

We'll end up with mail order only if the police don't get a grip. They need to get off twitter, get off their arses and get on with the job of policing crime  not hurty words.

[Dextrous63]

On the plus side, maybe we'll have a use for the illegals.

On which point, councils across he land are struggling to pay to keep our towns and cities clean and tidy.  And yet, there are a plethora of healthy and idle folk being paid ( in effect  ) to do little, So, why not give them the chance to partake in some useful tasks such as litter picking so they get the opportunity to prove their worth to the community and show that they have an interest in contributing towards the common good of the nation? 

Those that acquiesce get bonus points , those that show no valid reason get to eff off post haste.

[klondike]

Until we leave the European Convention of Human Rights and remove our subservience to the European Court of Human Rights we will be unable to depart them and will have to house and feed them. Perhaps if we weren't spending so much we could tax less so employers could pay more than benefits provide. Especially if we stopped importing cheap labour so employers actually had to pay more to get the jobs done.

[muddy]

Sheets??  Good grief.  They are hardly a small thing thieves can drop in their pocket!

They have all the perfumes locked away in Tesco's too.

But thieves don't need to hide anymore .
The police won't come out unless it's over £200 
Shop assistants are told not to combat thieves .
In some places people just walk into Greggs and help themsleves to food on a daily basis .