Grocery Stores In UK Are Forced To Hire Added Security To Prevent Thieves From Stealing Expensive Cuts Of Meats

The WinePress reported a little over a month ago that shops across the United States are having to put security tags on mean, and inside antitheft cases, to prevent shoplifters from stealing the meats:

Now shops are hiring physical bodies to prevent these thefts.

Metro UK explained more:

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Supermarkets have enlisted staff to protect expensive cuts of meat due to increased shoplifting sparked by the cost-of-living crisis, according to a new report. 

The upmarket stores in Maidenhead were forced to act after losing ‘thousands of pounds worth of stock’ every week.

The Berkshire town’s manager Robyn Bunyan said the significant spike in thefts suffered by major retailers is thought to have been brought about by rising food costs.

A combination of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine has caused staggeringly high inflation, which has sent the price of groceries rising at the fastest rate since the global financial crisis in 2008.

Ms Bunyan said supermarkets had been forced to employ ‘meat monitors’ to watch over expensive cuts, with the town’s larger stores such as Waitrose and Marks & Spencer said to be most impacted.

Ms Bunyan told a town meeting this week the shoplifting issue was becoming ‘huge’, according to the Maidenhead Advertiser.

She added that while it was not a fresh concern, Maidenhead has ‘issues’ with shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. 

It is an issue that has continued for many years, we are experiencing a vast spike in that.

This is a high-value issue that is unfortunately not going to disappear.

Ms Bunyan said.

Thames Valley Police’s engagement officer Jeff Pick also told councillors that shops often do not bother to pursue criminal charges due to the length of time it takes to find and prosecute offenders. 

The forum heard that criminals were ‘bold’ and would threaten staff if they were stopped from leaving a store with stolen products.

Metro.co.uk has contacted Waitrose and Marks & Spencer for comment.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[30] Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; [31] But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Proverbs 6:30-31

Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal has a pertinent saying: “when people lose everything, and have nothing left to lose, they lose it.” The Western world and its allies are on the cusp of society just completely breaking apart.

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More and more people are going to attempt to shoplift and bum rush stores, and you. Therefore, you must needs protect yourself and haves some security with you at the ready if need be, including the mindset to be willing to act if that time comes – and it will come, as the nations break apart at the hinges. Europe within months, I suspect, is going to get gnarly.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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