SHOPPERS are furious aft Morrisons installed a buzzer to alert unit if they privation to bargain champagne.
Bottles costing from arsenic small arsenic £31 up to Bollinger and Moet items worthy £50 person been placed successful a solid information furniture successful a store successful the upmarket municipality of Fleet, Hampshire.
But bottles of somewhat cheaper Prosecco costing up to £25 person been near out.
Expensive wines and spirits person not been fixed the aforesaid treatment.
There is simply a fastener connected the furniture which reads “Press present for help.”
A motion supra it adds: “Buzz for booze! To acquisition Champagne oregon spirits from the cabinet, inquire 1 of our colleagues oregon property the call-point."
Fleet was antecedently voted the healthiest, happiest and wealthiest spot successful the UK to live.
It has a precise debased transgression complaint with conscionable 19 cases of shoplifting successful August - the astir caller published figures - for a colonisation of 37,794.
The mean location terms successful the commuter municipality is £530,923, arsenic reported connected NeedToKnow.
Bubbly-loving section shoppers reacted with bemusement.
Claudio said: “Alcohol income volition driblet for sure.
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“No 1 volition beryllium a**ed to hold for lazy unit to travel round.”
Karen added: “Good luck with getting anyone to reply the buzzer.”
But others said it was successful keeping with shoplifting crossed the country.
Daniel said: “Well, if radical volition beryllium d***s, actions indispensable beryllium taken.”
Kenneth added: “Some idiots spoil it.”
Anne said: “Sad motion of the times.”
A Morrisons spokesperson told The Sun: "The cabinets you person seen are being utilized successful a fig of our stores arsenic portion of their information measures, arsenic are others crossed the industry.
"We person received bully feedback from customers and person a workfellow successful the country and the buzzer besides goes to the store headsets truthful customers tin expect truly punctual service."
Sainsbury’s forced to instrumentality drastic measurement to halt shoplifters nicking 85p packs of MACARONI
By Dominik Lemanski
SAINSBURY’S has started sticking information tags connected 85p packs of macaroni successful a bid to deter shoplifters, The Sun reported successful August.
The pasta was among galore low-cost products slapped with the anti-theft stickers.
Others included £1.70 packs of Silver Spoon sugar, £2.80 jars of Sainsbury’s Gold Roast Decaffeinated Coffee and its £2.90 Rich Roast Instant Coffee Granules.
A root astatine one Sainsbury’s store successful Purley, South London, antecedently said: “It doesn’t substance the worth of the item, shoplifters volition effort and bargain anything.
“The information tags are similar velocity cameras.
"They won’t halt them but they whitethorn astatine slightest dilatory them.”
Previously, we told however packs of Yorkshire teabags astatine a Tesco successful South East London present carried yellowish stickers that acceptable disconnected alarms if nicked.
Cases of shoplifting successful the UK person surged to grounds levels — with 1,300 reported each day.