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submitted 2 days ago by zaxvenz@lemm.ee to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, a security firm has said.

John Nussbaum, director of service for retail at Kingdom Security, said his staff were seeing a “different sort of shoplifter now” as the cost of living “pushes people to something they’ve never done before”.

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[-] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 points 2 days ago

Ex-barstaff come assistant manager here from a local boozer from many, many years ago.

We had a rule that the barstaff got first dibs on the deals if the smackheads came in with their goodies like you say (meat / coffee / Gillette triple bladers were big sellers....), and only then the customers came second. Crazy how even then your sweet old lady having her shandy top was in that queue 🙈

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