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.
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.
What if I told you all inflation was just corporate greed.
I mean, people should get payed more, but what do you expect a single (relatively) small grocery chain to do? Also this is more about protecting staff as they have to be the ones to turn them on when an incident occurs rather than an always-on thing
This is not a small grocery chain. This is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Australia.
People can’t afford to shop at those small stores. When I was making $100k I exclusively shopped at locally owned stores. But after being laid off, I can only afford to shop at Walmart and Amazon.
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That would be communism. Socialism is (partially) at work in European countries where we have captialism at the base, but using that to feed socialist programs.
Yeah, they’ve been tearing a lot of it down lately, but still
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TBF, one wants to use surveillance to protect the income of the wealthy, the other to allegedly protect the government in its most extreme form.
But protecting the wealthy is cool, right?
My life has gotten so fucked I’m starting to think about shoplifting just to feed myself.
That sounds like a horrible situation you’re in and I hope your life picks up soon. You should have a look at your local council website for food rescue/food bank initiatives in the area as they are definitely a safer avenue for you than theft. I have a relative who volunteers for one of these services who spends a few hours each week driving around to the local Colesworths/Bakers Delights etc. picking up food (ie. bakery/deli/produce goods etc. - not sure about actual packaged stock) that is near its use-by/best before date (and would have been thrown out otherwise) and brings it to a market where absolutely anyone can go and take it. All for free.
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
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.
Most people are able to get assistance with food which is why most people don’t actually steal food they steal stuff to sell to buy drugs.
If you’re gonna steal food, go steal from walmart or some big retailer that can handle the losses. The little stores like this don’t deserve the theft.
Coles isn’t small. They’re part of what is essentially a duopoly in Australia.
They have over 800 shops, they aren’t small.
Hey, look, it’s somebody having a strong opinion about something they’re ignorant about!
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
I’m not trusting the paper owned by Bezos on anything. Sorry.
Watch the video then. It’s from an anarchist. He says essentially the same things as the article but doesn’t dance around the issue or it’s implications. As long as you’re aware of the biases of corporate media, you can still glean useful information from it.
They shouldn’t have to switch on the cameras - there should be signage posted at the entrances explaining body camera filming is taking place and that by entering the establishment the customer agrees to being filmed.
There is no reason for the employee to have to on/off the device - which may lead to further confrontation.
Imagine I sell a product that everyone needs to buy in order to live, but I’m a massive creep and like to take photos of people without their consent. But I put a sign up so now it’s ok. Cool and normal.
Or you know, maybe just don’t profiteer during inflation.
