Remember folks, if you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn’t.

Alternate headline : "Supermarkets have jacked the prices so high, making record profits in tough times, that people have resorted to stealing in order to live".

I saw a shitty looking steak at coles the other day, over $60 a KG. It had bloody RFID sensors on it. What a world.

Pay people more so theft goes down? Fucking never!

Give body cameras to staff. Sounds perfect

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Considering how much shit I see retail workers go through, this... honestly seems like a rational response. I'm sure it will immediately turn into middle managers using it to abuse employees of course though.

My life has gotten so fucked I'm starting to think about shoplifting just to feed myself.

Don't like the increasing surveillance but this seems like a pro worker move actually. You don't have to turn them on to be a snitch, you just have to turn them on if you're being harassed. I got fired after being harassed by a customer and my employer took their side. If I had footage of it and audio then things might have been different

2 employees in the store

riiiiiiiiight

I’m 99% sure we’re gonna start seeing an uptick in employees “accidentally” obscuring and/or destroying these body cams

The comments about poor independent grocer Coles is doing my head in.

In the USA shoplifting is up because most states no longer prosecute. Which is also the reason a lot of retailers have or are in the process of closing stores in big cities. Had a friend that worked at Riteaid, once a week several women would come in with trash bags and empty the makeup section. Even with them on video nothing came on it.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The supermarket recently announced a $1.1 billion annual profit, but it also reported a spike in shoplifting and attacks directed at staff.

Theft is costing Australian grocery giants hundreds of millions of dollars annually, with Coles reporting a 20 per cent jump in stock loss.

"The use of these cameras has seen a substantial reduction in the amount of abuse and physical incidents our teams have faced," a Woolworths spokesperson said.

Retail theft is up across the board, driven by the rising cost of living, according to the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees' Association.

Mr Peak says while the association welcomes the use of cameras, it believes they should only be used for deterring or filming threats towards staff, rather than "asset protection" for supermarkets.

"We don't want any suggestion that workers are some kind of mobile security camera – that's where we can absolutely see this actually [causing] violence and abuse."

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