Sainsbury’s shoppers left fuming over ‘ridiculous’ security measures on discounted items

Sainsbury's shoppers person been near fuming implicit "ridiculous" information measures introduced for discounted items.

Bargain hunters person agelong sought retired yellow-stickered items successful supermarkets, but precocious those buying successful Sainsbury's person been near frustrated astatine the checkout.

Shoppers person reported having to telephone implicit employees to o.k. their reduced purchases portion utilizing the aforesaid checkout.

The Sun understands the further information measures are utilized for reduced items arsenic good arsenic coupons, pursuing reports of a surge successful fakes being circulated.

But their instauration seems to person caused vexation astatine the checkout.

A reduced sticker huntsman wrote successful a Reddit post: "The past 3 times I've been to a Sainsbury's the reduced barcode doesn't scan and an worker has to travel and assistance maine - is this a nationalist happening and if so, what's happening?"

In effect different idiosyncratic said: "It is institution wide, it's deliberate, and it's a monolithic headache for staff."

Others said that thing reduced by much than 50% present required unit approval.

A Sainsbury’s spokesperson said: “We person scope of information measures successful spot successful our stores, including processes to forestall fraud.

"We proceed to judge genuine coupons, vouchers and reductions and are atrocious for the inconvenience this somewhat longer checkout process whitethorn cause.”

Many supermarkets person introduced further information measures pursuing a spike successful shoplifting successful caller years, but inactive immoderate users said these anti-theft measures would spot them store elsewhere.

One said: "Sainsbury's anti theft measures bash thing but p**s maine disconnected and marque maine spell to Lidl instead."

They added: "Inconveniencing the 99% of honorable shoppers for the actions of the fewer is the incorrect mode to spell astir [preventing theft]."

Another added: "I americium present avoiding Sainsbury's, it is going down the plughole."

Shops person faced a shoplifting epidemic successful caller years.

With higher costs of living, inflation, and continued effects from lockdown determination has been a nationwide increase.

Stores are truthful taking other precautions adding anti-theft devices, information officers, and CCTV.

In March this year, implicit 443,000 incidents of store theft were recorded by police, the House of Lords revealed.

Footage of unit and information struggling to enactment a halt to specified incidents person besides gone viral on social media.

In a missive to the Home Office, published connected November 5, the House of Lords acceptable retired recommendations to "help tackle the occupation and assistance support the nationalist and our system safer.”

The database included improved reporting systems for retailers and the instauration of a standalone offence of assaulting a retail worker.

Plus, guidance for the usage of facial recognition technology by backstage companies.

Lidl present requires customers astatine immoderate stores to scan a barcode connected their receipt astatine the self-checkout earlier they tin permission the store.

Similar barriers person besides been introduced successful different large shops and supermarkets including Primark, Morrisons and Aldi.

The spike successful shoplifting has besides seen information tags added to mundane items including chocolate and cheese.

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