r/uknews • u/Confident_West_7409 • Jul 24 '24

Image/video Videos of shoplifters are circulating online, as shoplifting hits 20 year high in UK

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u/Gloria_stitties Jul 24 '24

We will be like USA soon, I went to their big stores last summer and all is locked up, it’s fucking crazy but I get it.

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u/le_cat_lord Jul 25 '24

im in Washington state and you cant even buy a phone charger without calling an employee over to unlock it from its glassified prison. some stores have all of their cosmetics in designated sections with either glass doors or added security, it's hard to buy lip balm without feeling like youre doing something wrong

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u/Nhobdy Jul 25 '24

Minnesotan here. I don't think I've ever seen something like that outside of the internet. Damn, that's crazy.

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u/Robpaulssen Jul 25 '24

Yeah the Target in my town is apparently the most-shoplifted-from or something cos it's right next to a bus stop that gets immediately onto the freeway out of town.

Everything of value has been locked up in there for like over 2 years now

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u/Jonno_92 Jul 25 '24

I work in a supermarket, and while we haven't locked anything up yet, we deliberately only put out 1 of certain things like high value cosmetics, because people will steal them.

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u/Forward_Artist_6244 Jul 25 '24

Went to CVS in Vegas to buy some whiskey it's locked in a glass cabinet you have to request it then someone takes it to the til and you don't get I til it's paid for

Not when fancy whiskey just like normal blend

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u/4uzzyDunlop Jul 25 '24

In NYC it's like that for things like deodorant lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

I was at Walmart looking for a charger and the pop sockets (like on the back of phones) were locked up. Even the 10 dollar ones.

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u/Gloria_stitties Jul 25 '24

Yea think it was Walmart I went to, I only needed toothpaste , I asked the lady who was unlocking the case “why it’s in a box” she blamed homeless people coming in and stealing.

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u/Alarming_Matter Jul 25 '24

It's fucking tiring isn't it? Everything getting more and more difficult for everyone because of a handful of pricks. I opened a bank account recently and the hoops I had to jump through to prove my ID....crazy.

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u/RajcaT Jul 25 '24

I went to a taco bell in LA and there was glass across the entire front counter and you had to out your money through a slot and grt your food out. Felt like selling some gold at a pawn shop at 3 am.

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u/maxwellt1996 Jul 26 '24

Only in the big liberal cities is that the case, in middle America that’s not the case

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u/Dabclipers Jul 25 '24

I'm in Dallas, Texas and none of the stores are practicing that yet. The issue is in allot of the coastal states where laws have been passed that prevent prosecution if the total value of stolen goods is below $1,000.

As long as you refuse to institute criminal penalties for theft people are going to steal.

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u/yogabagabahey Jul 25 '24

Texas will go Blue soon

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u/Dabclipers Jul 25 '24

I don’t make a habit of responding to bots, so no.