Shoppers baffled after security tags stuck on £1.90 Red Bull cans in posh Sainsbury's

A shopper joked 'we've failed arsenic a country' aft helium spotted anti-shoplifting information tags connected £1.90 cans of Red Bull conscionable a fewer yards from the Ritz Hotel successful Mayfair

Shoppers person been near baffled aft information tags were enactment connected £1.90 cans of Red Bull in a posh Sainsbury's.

Special reddish and yellowish anti-shoplifting tops had been placed connected regular and sweetener escaped versions of the 250ml drinks erstwhile they were spotted by a lawsuit successful a the Sainsbury's Local successful Mayfair, westbound London. The store is conscionable yards from the swanky Ritz Hotel. After the astonishing sighting connected Wednesday, the lawsuit joked: "We've failed arsenic a country."

Fellow shoppers were equallly shocked by the information measure. One idiosyncratic said: "Which vigor deprived psyche is nicking a Red Bull to marque this a request successful shops", portion different added: "To those who promote shoplifting, good done."

Someone other said: "Don't cipher beryllium stealing them wings that Red Bull gives nary more." A 4th added that there's "no mode these information things outgo less" than the magnitude of Red Bulls stolen from the shop.

Sainsbury's has been approached for a comment. In caller months, supermarket person enactment information tags connected an progressively varied enactment of products to thwart shoplifters amid the cost-of-living crisis. Last week, Morrisons successful Fleet, Hampshire sparked choler by putting champagne successful a locked fridge, portion past period Tesco resorted to putting information tags connected Monster Energy drinks successful astatine slightest 1 of its shops.

The supermarket chain had enactment extortion caps connected cans of the vigor drinks, which are priced astatine £1.85 successful its stores. The measurement was seen successful 1 of its Express supermarket branches successful cardinal London. The heavy yellowish integrative lids are stapled onto the drinks can, and tin lone beryllium removed by unit astatine the till erstwhile the merchandise has been bought. An effort to instrumentality the tin retired of the store without the lids being removed volition effect successful alarms being sounded.