An epidemic of shoplifting | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

[@LBCOfficial]

From Monday, we'll be uploading all of James' shows in full!

[@kinyemibola4386]

Finally!!!

[@Home4Facts]

Stream it live if possible.

[@samd1824]

Finally. Please add time stamps as well

[@thethreebears1]

About time. Get in.

[@firoshsaris1251]

Amazing!

[@martinvaux9843]

Please, please make these shows available to us like this. It would be great to be able to listen back as it's often not possible to listen live. Thanks!

[@Jamietheroadrunner]

Thank you LBC! I’m an American who lives in Boston and now I can listen to James every day ❤️

[@sophiecharlotte2935]

How do you get it?

[@ThomasKing19933]

The whole show without ads. Yes!!

[@LBCOfficial]

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[@ThomasKing19933]

​@@LBCOfficialThankyou :)

[@aarpoonwaify6694]

@@LBCOfficialLBC FINALLY put O’Brien on KZbin. Don’t worry, you only missed out on millions of views. Like seriously, did the whole Joe Rogan thing pass you by?😂

[@daftgowk1]

What he said

[@NEONMOTORFAIRY]

@@aarpoonwaify6694They’ve gotta be paying him a ton to stay… He’d make a killing with his own YT channel!

[@clivewarner2162]

UK is a really poor country now with a crust of rich people floating on top. What did you expect? Constant adverts on TV and radio for stuff people cannot afford, resentment builds, and now you are where you are. When government ministers and people like Michelle Mone are filling their vaults with vast sums of cash for nothing, how do you think the public feels about that?

[@AgsYo]

Hello, to whom it may concern! I’ve listen to clips of your show and have come to really appreciate your take on things. Thanks for putting the entire episode KZbin. Great show, listening from America

[@moshodi100]

Do a search for james obtien whole show and you will find global player have whole episodes going back for years.

[@holdenmcgroin3995]

Bizarre that it's taken lbc so long to start putting up full shows... That's such an untapped resource for capturing our attention!

[@dianachisamore6985]

You could, honestly, make a comparison between this shoplifting problem and a lot of journalists, and politicians, now a days. They have no conscience or humaity anymore. Many british journalists don't care if they are defaming someone's character, especially Prince Harry, so long as they are making money. Politicians are the same. So i guess it's becoming a societal problem. It's such a shame that there are fewer consequences to be found. That's why I love your show. You are honest and witty. You point out hard truths to people and you call out their lies. You promote people to use their consciences. We need more people like you. More channels like this one. Thank you. 😊 👍👍

[@sabinehahn9774]

Is it really too hard to understand that currently a generation is growing up that sees day-in day-out that there are no consequences for your criminal behaviour if you're just rich and powerrful enough? That's the world we created for them, that's the social role models we are setting.

[@twisteddancer7773]

Tiktok should be banned. That's where that degenerate behaviour started

[@buffetslayer1533]

I don’t think it did.

[@sarahbarrett1247]

😂😂😂😂 human behaviour was absolutely perfect before 2015😂😂😂

[@Dragonten312]

Uploading the whole show is a great idea - keep it up!

[@halcyondaystunes]

Just what we all need, LBC TV....keep them coming 😊

[@jamieakahenry]

Store manager here! We have one what pushes her luck and comes in once a week.- she has a lazy eye, and she is crackhead we call her Lisa left eye. 😂

[@OneEyedDronie]

Working in food retail for 3 yrs, I can tell you the following: 1) It's on the increase from All walks of life 2) Almost 99% of people we catch just get the items taken off them and told to leave - ZERO reports to the police or EVEN the store head office! 3) More and more people who look like your granny, grandad, mum & dad are trying to take without paying. 4) We have people who try to nick EXACTLY the same thing every time they come in the store. We have names for them... 'Spam man', 'beef lady', lamb woman... 5) and finally - the violence is on the increase! At sone time, when I was young, no one EVER ever hit someone working in a food store - trust me - they do now!

[@ewan7283]

@@BrianBadondebowl your point is so conflicting it's insane

[@larstenfaelt1859]

I am a Swede who has wor,ed a lot in UK. 15 years ago i got the chance to look in tne history book of a friend's son history book. I was shocked in the proud way the colonial period was described. I have often been thimkimg about this when Brexit been discussed and the exceptionalism that I feel i see in many areas. This will never be fixed without correcring the description. I think this applies to many former colonial states but UK is so affected in tne society and in someway tbe old description legitimate it today.

[@nimoy212]

Yayyy finally! Brit living in Bahrain here. I'm soooo happy to find this full show. Please please upload more full shows, I've watched every single short clip haha. Avid fan here

[@reeling-in]

Well done mr Meldrew. You’ve got it off your chest and you will sleep better tonight!😂

[@tonylawlor8833]

I don’t know how they get away with it, everything is tagged where I shop with store detectives hiding behind pillars.

[@ewan7283]

what sort of shops are these

[@wallybingbang4350]

Shoplifting drug addicts sell meat and alcohol from supermarkets in the pubs near where I live. Joints of meat, steaks, bottles of spirits, Champagne etc Half the price -

[@kidShibuya]

The solution is to move.. Leave the country. What else is a government going to listen to when they so easily miniplate the public into supporting anything? I live in Japan and have zero regrets.

[@JohnnyBloodyJohnny]

love this LBC. Well done, always wanted to 'watch' him even though I DO LISTEN live too. Catch up 'thing'. Thanks for this format. BRILLIANT. Well done LBC.

[@jellyd4889]

Cavalier attitude to stealing in the UK. Especially from building sites. Everything that is not locked down is Fair Game. It is endemic.

[@NC-ck5oj]

I live next door to a Tesco's and people shoplift literally all day, every day. Its at a point where they only put a couple of items out on the shelves at a time now because its so bad.

[@1gerard47]

Britain has lost it.

[@chatham43]

....we've had 13 years of this scourge of shoplifting....the tories have alot to answer for...!!

[@h.nguyen4193]

its not surprising with all the people with food insecurity. 20% of our youth have no chance of employment or any meaniful employment. Than there Brexit. Not surprising at all.

[@johannafreeburn3061]

look at the sorry state of affairs in san fran. not only do they NOT prosecute for thefts under 99.99, but if a shop keeper persists in calling 911 for what are now considered 'petty' thefts, the police are threatening the shopkeepers with charges on the grouns that they are 'wasting' police time. this new attitude to 'crime' is wiping out the small to middle size business in areas of usa, and some larger businesses are refusing to service certain areas. bad state of affairs.

[@steverooke1717]

I think it is designed to shut down local business to force people to shop online🇬🇧🇺🇸🤝

[@tonjamarshall4842]

You mean up until $900.

[@johannafreeburn3061]

jeez, is it 900.00, really, that's just a free for all! @@tonjamarshall4842

[@julias-shed]

Cost of living crisis plus decimated police force equals shoplifting epidemic. Both caused by the Tories. 🤣

[@melodysimms225]

You are the best presenter ever., please never leave. You always tell it the way it is.

[@stephaniejohnson229]

I've worked on retail nearly 20 years and I cannot believe how bad the shoplifting has gotten, and there's nothing we can do. It's so frustrating. I've been threatened on multiple occasions by regular shoplifters with needles and stuff, and when they get arrested, they're out the same day! It all feels so absolutely pointless, and makes me wonder why we bother at all. We may as well just stand outside with signs that say "please, come steal our stuff!" 😞

[@nicciswainhi]

Pay people a living wage...

[@sie4431]

It's gotten worse since austerity was bought in. It's been so long that it's been normalised and I fear Labour aren't going to bother to fix things

[@whatsup9260]

@@nicciswainhi voila, not to mention the actual wage theft by the rich ... when you flash your wealth all over the social media and claim that its what makes you a real person ... guess what

[@lizzybennett2590]

I wonder if we are headed to a situation where you have to order online and pick-up at the store. Browse in the store but with all goods encased in plastic to prevent shop-lifting. This sounds crazy.

[@tdtm82]

If you need a well-built dude to stand there and stare I'm available.

[@johannafreeburn3061]

if i'm desparately hungry, i might steal an apple or a bag o crisps, not a pair of jeans.

[@manco828]

Why not? A pair of jeans can fund a bag of groceries.

[@johannafreeburn3061]

lol, not having ever had to be a shoplifter, i hadn't thot o that!@@manco828

[@isbestlizard]

If you thought you saw someone stealing food NO YOU DIDNT

[@snsnplpl]

Piggly Wiggly was America's first self-service grocery store founded in 1916. At this rate stores may have to go back to keeping everything behind the counter. Grocery stores in America are moving out of areas when shoplifting rates make the operation unprofitable resulting in 'food deserts'.

[@neorock6135]

*Absolutely love* how articulate James is, especially when smacking down Right wing nonsense. Here in America, we similarly have seen a dramatic rise in organized shop lifting. Of course... OF COURSE the Right wing is beating the drum of "liberal policies" being the cause just like the guy who wrote in, who James so satisfyingly smacked down with the "13 yrs of Tory rule" line! 😁😁 The prob is we haven't had sole control by conservatives so they're able to convince "normies"(ppl who don't pay close attention to politics) that its Lefty policies even though Ruby Red Republican states here have cities with higher rates of crime.

[@anonomous8719]

Except the liberal mantra is ‘ shoplifters shouldn’t be a crime’

[@sarahbarrett1247]

@@anonomous8719no, it’s really not. We still recognise that shoplifting and stealing is a crime. We just want to see thief’s treated fairly and justly ie punishment fitting the crime and justice must be done and be seen to be done. You know, just the basic underpinning of principles of justice in all democratic countries.

[@anonomous8719]

@@sarahbarrett1247 ‘fair and reasonable’ to you is ‘let them get away with it’

[@sarahbarrett1247]

@@anonomous8719 No. It’s just not locking them up for years and years unnecessarily. Usually turning them into bigger criminals. It’s also not just punishment for punishment’s sake. I would love for rehabilitation to be more focused on so that when they are released they aren’t at risk of reoffending. Win for us, win for the prison system, win for taxpayers and win for the shop lifter. Win for society at large. Just locking up people for years over and over and over again doesn’t help anyone.

[@davidharness1507]

Ah no wonder they just announced all thefts will be investigated.

[@JM-qd2ky]

I'm getting fed up with supermarket staff checking that I've paid for groceries at the self service tills. It makes me feel self conscious when they glare at the till.

[@tonjamarshall4842]

It's Capitalism, baby!

[@Phoneybeetlemaniacxs]

Here’s why people are desperate this is what happens when you dint raise wages

[@wavydavy9816]

I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but we need to bring back the Plod!

[@UseDgh]

Like the casual reference to bringing in your wealthy mate's son in for work experience.

[@fintamaria2429]

This is what happens when trillionaire billionaires multiply, using our resources, and the number of Food Banks increases for the working class 😢😢

[@AudreyHannah-n9n]

So it’s not uncommon to see elderly or mothers stealing sausages, bread and milk it shows the state of the uk under the Tory’s, heartbreaking

[@jeffsimon9594]

under the Tory’s what?

[@norawright807]

Under the Tories.

[@AudreyHannah-n9n]

Government, do you need it spelled out, thought if your competent to comment you could work it out

[@AudreyHannah-n9n]

Can’t wait for you to say that never happened or something of that nature, cause if you do your not shopping in the supermarkets the vast majority are

[@jeffsimon9594]

@@norawright807 There we go, at least someone has a grasp of English

[@kevinwilliams1421]

He is a big fan of saying don’t trust your lying eyes…well we all see who is doing it but we cannot mention it

[@barbaramohammed152]

Às is the government so are its people...But not all of us... thank goodness 😕

[@NoneNone-kj9nf]

More full shows!

[@franklingoodwin]

Never caught a full James O'Brien show before. Only now am I seeing how many tangents he goes on and the weird anecdotes he tells 😂. I'll be back (like Arnie)

[@jaxcoss5790]

😂😂

[@xander_campbell1773]

We've been listening to the full show on KZbin about 3 hours after its been live everyday.....now we can WATCH the full show! Awesome (although press F for that guy that edits and uploads the daily shows everyday for years now) ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ecaeas4439]

You would've always been able to listen to it live. They have a mobile application and it's decent.

[@cshubs]

When I was a kid, under 10, I stole a pack of gum from a corner store. I gelt guilty about it, and still remember that guilt. The thieves of today feel nothing. They have no conscious, no humanity.

[@opinion3742]

How do you know what they go through? They are unlikely to open up to you about the problems they are having or what has driven them to steal.

[@falkaa88]

I used to work in the UK in the 2000s and then missed it a lot for years. Now I don't. What have you become? :(

[@raystewart3648]

Japan has a bigger population than us in the UK, yet their shoplifting is very low. France (77 million), Germany (83 million) and even Spain (47 million) but their Shoplifting is lower than ours. So it is something to do with the way we bring up our youth and maybe the way we treat our criminals (slap on the hand type of punishment).

[@NEONMOTORFAIRY]

It’s coz the Japanese are happier. Happy people don’t go around breaking the law. The next question is “why?”

[@buffetslayer1533]

Just maybe, if people could afford food they would buy it.

[@kevinwilliams1421]

Is that because the demographics of Japan is mainly Japanese

[@ewan7283]

any sources?

[@raystewart3648]

@@ewan7283 National Statistics, Wikipedia and more.

[@kirsteneasdale5707]

As a musician, I have given up touring in Europe post Brexit due to the additional costs of visas, work permits, carnies and taxes on merchandise. Thanks England! It might be OK for pop musos who are as rich as Roger Daltrey and can attract huge audiences but for those of us who perform on the cultural, traditional circuits, it is no longer financially viable. Of course bands toured in Europe before 1974 but not many and for the non famous bands, the pay and conditions were not great (think of the Beatles accommodations in Hamburg).

[@BlackWolf-uk2yb]

How 'as a country' were we not ALSO key to ending Slavery, and not just here in the UK? I'm always intrigued as to how the whole 'sins of the father' stuff is considered justice, even biblically. And bear in mind the vast majority of people did not 'inherit' ANY money/property from their ancestors. And it may be just my personal cynicism irl of how I view 'apologies' WITHOUT actions because they just come of as insincere virtue signaling!

[@Rory626]

More whole shows please!!

[@DD-sr9xm]

US slavery ended over 150 years ago. Five generations have come and gone since then. Most of us are fully supportive of helping the chronically impoverished in our current society, using current means of assistance. But to turn focus back to the Victorian era to try to determine beneficiaries and victims? Absurd. And by the way many families in the south were bankrupt by the end of the war as the confederate government took everyone’s’ savings to finance their campaign. Most families in the south received pardons signed by President Lincoln for having owned slaves and fought on the side of the south. Are those pardons abandoned, rescinded, cancelled?

[@nigelbenn4642]

How is shoplifting hard to prove? There's 450 million CCTVs across this nation, how is it difficult?

[@joooja]

When you know countless people who have had their car stolen or mugged and police don't do anything about it, you realise those same police are the ones that are supposed to deter you from shoplifting.

[@anonomous8719]

Yet if you misgender someone online - the resources are there.

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

Clockwork Orange warned you guys.

[@chrisperkins7331]

I have often watched the short bits of James show and love the way he presents. As for the shop lifting I think the UK is liveing in the last days of its empire. I was born in the UK just after WW2. and left 26 years later. The negative changes in the country I grew up in are excelerating, and all the politisions are just hoping it will last till they collect their pensions and head for the coast. I am not sure what the solution is, but I don't see how more growth and the introduction of AI is going to help.

[@charlesstilesmysterydinersfn]

The last days of the empire were in 1948, around the time you were born.

[@hmq9052]

Accelerating, Chris. I'm glad you left. You hadn't bothered to learn the language

[@chrisperkins7331]

That was very observant of you, well done Do they still give out prizes for that?.@@hmq9052

[@chrisperkins7331]

What happend in 1948 I was to young at the time to notice.@@charlesstilesmysterydinersfn

[@joycelewis7012]

Interesting story about shop lifting. Here in the US we have the same problem…but I remember being in J-Burg in 2002 & EVERY store was locked & bared. If you wanted to come in you would have to wait until the shopkeeper opened the door. Where I previously lived I saw tweakers stealing needles from the bins at my local Farm store. When I reported it they said the same thing….they know it’s happening but don’t try to stop it. And farmers need to be able to buy the needles so they have to stock them w/o being under lock & key. A world gone crazy.

[@kinocchio]

Oh this is a treat.

[@Jay-Ace]

The fact that he doesn’t know that there’s people out there that don’t know there’s places in the uk that people don’t worry about shop lifting and locking their front doors says it all😂

[@steverooke1717]

There is no punishment so there free to shoplift (this is happening in the 🇺🇸) the result- the shops close down you shop online🤝 Sa£e & E££ective👍

[@tonjamarshall4842]

Exactly, there's videos showing what happened to downtown San Francisco because of shoplifting.

[@steverooke1717]

@@tonjamarshall4842 I'm in the 🇬🇧 and my bro lives in 🇺🇸, so I get to here how things are over there and the shoplifting is destroying local business😟I don't think it's accidental.

[@tonjamarshall4842]

@@steverooke1717 I work as a security guard in a shop like Boots, in Texas. I only been at the job for two months. From what I noticed, shoplifting wasn't always a problem like it is now until Food Stamps awards were slashed. The majority of the people stealing are Antisocial types, they steal because they can, and know the store really can't do anything about it; they come in and look for something to steal that isn't locked up!

[@NoneNone-kj9nf]

Police on the beat, back to community policing. Visibility, funding for services, education, build back the fabric of community, eradicate poverty

[@All_4_Success-X]

Not a wacko but consider that gangs or questionable groups are given a wink by lawenforcement so that folks start screaming for more controls and volunteer jack boots dictators!

[@rxwh]

Well, that is a wacko statement, it only makes it worse that you're trying to preface your statement saying you're not

[@derekmorse8171]

Must be a big market for the goods being stolen-ie,people who will buy the stolen goods.Why does this market exist?

[@equaliser2265]

I want some compensation from the Sentinelese for eating my great great great great Grandfather.

[@firoshsaris1251]

No way are we getting this directly from LBC now? I used to only watch it from Nick Abbots channel

[@Jay-Ace]

They went in just to laugh at staff👌🤣🤣🤣

[@ShayDeeRealiteaTVReviews]

Love the full version JO’B

[@kimpacheco8466]

How much does rent cost? How much does it cost to buy a home? Electric bills? Petrol? Weekly groceries? How many shops are understaffed and underpaid staff? What are the employment opportunities for youths? What economic policies have been implemented in the past 5 years that have benefited the middle or working class? This is the same exact story told from the same perspective of “nobody is doing anything about it” and we need more policing and harsher penalties for these “gangs”. How low have we sunk that the answers to austerity policies and tax cuts for the rich and their companies is more police. Same arguments and solution American has been pushing.

[@TigerP1]

JOB TV - Love it.

[@equaliser2265]

Started from stopping discipline in schools, and making smacking kids illegal.

[@Racheldass-b9s]

A guy in Morrisons near me teyd to run out with a trolley full of toiletries and food but security stopped him and chased him so he left the trolley

[@northernpunx1978]

Awesome. He's so funny. Sad topics great wit.

[@jeremygough1387]

I've been banging on about this for a while. Of course there was always going to be a rise in theft. Come on coppers, drop Letby and pull skint people.

[@saburu79666]

About time! 🎉

[@originalsuccessjournal8723]

It is agreed that anyone detained should have theconly access to their criminal and meducal files with them oresent. No one shall be enslaved by any means.

[@NoneNone-kj9nf]

Police on the beat, back to community policing. Visibility, funding for services, education, build back the fabric of community,

[@shunkadee1299]

It's not really a surprise that these soulless Tory "machine men" don't give a toss about what they've done to small bands in regards to touring Europe. . It's still an incredibly sad state of affairs though. 😔

[@MAGAted]

nah, it's been going on since labour's 'soft on crime' mantra

[@sarahbarrett1247]

Nah, it really hasn’t. Maybe if the Tories hadn’t have gotten rid of 80,000 coppers 🤦‍♀️

[@MAGAted]

can you corroborate those 80k coppers, or is it just a LEFT-wing smear, mind you, labour had left the economy in a mess in 2010, they did cause austerity ?@@sarahbarrett1247

[@torres1266]

Hope we’ll get all of Tom Swarbrick soon!!

[@anandvn5654]

But if JRM can have a top hat...why cant I? Its the inequetiable distribution of basic needs and certainly wealth

[@chrisleneil]

Thank you so much for this! JOB was wonderful, as always

[@jackharrison1175]

FINALLY

[@richardsmith2627]

Does james ever let people finish and not make everything about him?

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Menzies and Woolleys, Wallasey. Biro. V. early 1970's.

[@johannafreeburn3061]

well james, when they make you pay 60.00 to travel ten miles to where you're going, in the name of 'environmental legislations', OR, you can travel 39 miles, toll free to get to the same destination, WHERE ON EARTH IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL GAIN?

[@heyhonpuds]

Trying to oust the unofficial channel hey? Can't say I blame you.

[@GameCountryUK]

Wooooooo!

[@officechairpotato]

It's not a poverty thing. In my experience most of the shopkeepers and service personnel who complain about shoplifting would be absolutely mortified if they saw someone shoplifting basic essentials, and would not classify it the same way. It's one of those "I didn't see anything" moments compared to "I saw you, but I can't do anything about it." which is far more the norm.

[@JOEFABULOUS.]

Bare essentials dont sell cash is king

[@stephaniejohnson229]

I absolutely agree with this. A lot of the stuff that's stolen from my store are things like big packs of washing tablets or Yankee candles. They're only stealing those things to feed addictions. It's really sad.

[@millennialmale4448]

@@stephaniejohnson229 notice noone has a problem with the rich, even if they are addicts as long as they can afford their drug, luxury rehab, etc. its not addiction, it's poverty. i was an addict for 10 years (6 years clean now) yet i never stole. though i did know some who did. and NONE of them liked having to do it. Poverty is the mother of all social ills.

[@millennialmale4448]

also the reason people don't steal bare essentials is also cos it is easier to steal a small expensive item and then use the money from selling it to buy essentials than it is to try and steal a trolley full of a weeks shopping.

[@maxsnts]

Once all and every slap become a child abuse, parents stopped having a way to keep kids in line. Then what the kids did stopped being a shame on the parents. Put all of it together and you get kids that can do what they want and nothing will happen, not even at home. Now let those kids grow up and now you have adults the behave the same way.

[@NEONMOTORFAIRY]

Ah, yes. Violence. That eternal gift… Please 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@martinnorman2579]

​@youngtrader4541 we are a violent species?

[@ewan7283]

you shouldn't slap your kids mate

[@sarahbarrett1247]

I think there is a balance between slapping kids and having zero consequences. After all, shoplifting was still a thing even when kids were slapped. It is possible to teach kids right and wrong and instil discipline without resorting to physically striking kids. I managed it with my kids.

[@manco828]

@@ewan7283no consequences

[@anthonynichol1142]

When a dentist pulls teeth it can go many ways and none of them are easy.

[@manco828]

You'll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle.🎸🥁

[@millennialmale4448]

the class division and and poverty in a country with huge amounts of wealth held by a few are the main issues. honestly, it don't even matter how far back the generational wealth goes. until we come together and accept that we are ALL the inheritors of ALL is society's wealth, and that no individual can ever create wealth on his own and thus the wealth belongs equally to all. we will continue having these problems until a fairer redistribution happens. which i don't see ever happening since even or labour party is now just a tory with a red rosette on. and our left media are neo-liberal mouthpieces. yes even JOB unfortunately. i was disappointed by how softball he was in his interview with Keir Starmer Kid Starver)

[@kevinwilliams1421]

The lack of diversity of the shoplifting on Oxford street is disgusting I cannot believe the media just ignore it

[@Belginator]

Tory hate will help, people are desperate

[@michaelpyatt831]

They should have a finger snipped off each time and after the fifth offence , a hand chopped off !!

[@sarahbarrett1247]

So you are advocating for Sharia Law to be implemented here in the UK?

[@SpencerLao]

What about a new vaccine debate???

[@Lets_Be_Real_UK]

James, pls can you have a debate about the colonial history and the artifacts in the museum from the colonies ? If nothing else it helps to know our histories.

[@englishstark6100]

What did you say about the unvaccinated Evil OBrien Please repeat you were very definite on what should be done to us Purebloods and how the vaccine stopped transmission medical expert that you are!

[@jeffsimon9594]

He is sweeping that under the rug these days

[@gmonkman]

[@ewan7283]

Proud to say I regularly may ‘shoplift’. Only from supermarkets/ big chains, wouldnt steal from smaller corner shop types. I think it is a slightly different problem to the one being described, as shoplifting from supermarkets is usually through the use of self service checkouts. Also worked in retail recently and none of the work to keep an eye in shoplifters is really part of the job anymore. Centre security can’t do anything, police can’t/won’t do anything unless it’s a significant amount, and it isn’t in any retail contracts to do any theft prevention.

[@annphillips1086]

Proud to say you're a thief? Times have indeed changed 🤨

[@JOEFABULOUS.]

Back in the day I walked out of Marks and Spencer with 3 Arraon cable knit wool jumpers the manager held the door open for me 😂 just one of many visits there