Greggs per mettere panini e bevande dietro il bancone per affrontare l’ascesa in taccheggio | Notizie ITV
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-19/greggs-to-put-sandwiches-and-drinks-behind-counter-to-tackle-rise-in-shoplifting
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Greggs per mettere panini e bevande dietro il bancone per affrontare l’ascesa in taccheggio | Notizie ITV
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-05-19/greggs-to-put-sandwiches-and-drinks-behind-counter-to-tackle-rise-in-shoplifting
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It was nice to have grown up in a high trust society. I feel sad my kids won’t experience it. Learn and adapt I guess.
I know this will be a left-field idea for Greggs management but how about putting staff behind the counter at lunchtime.
The social contract has been slowly crumbling for a while, I suspect Tesco and Sainsbury’s and other popular chains will follow soon.
those seagulls are a real fuckin menace, i’ll give em that….
My local Greggs (well 1 of them as we have 3 lol) has already done this as school kids and other undesirables were stealing from the sandwich cupboard that faced out.
Now they turned them around 180 and you have to ask them for a sandwich or drink. This was a few months ago though.
One time I was in the queue and someone came up said excuse me, me and the lady in front of me parted to let them in thinking it was to just pick up a baguette or something. She did but she then walked out the shop with 2 of them. Lady in front told Greggs staff about what happened and they just shrugged and said it happens daily. Nothing they can do.
People do take the piss. Blatantly seen kids go in and take about £20 worth of stuff and just walk out. Mind you the staff don’t care, can’t blame them though. They don’t get paid much to run after them!
If someone is nicking a sandwich because they have nothing to eat, fair enough, have at it.
However, I have worked in ‘loss prevention tech’, which is basically anticipating what will be stolen and how to stop it programmatically
The vast majority of theft is either by organised gangs, smack heads or people that just want the five finger discount.
Most places will just adopt the Screwfix model. You walk to the till, order what you want and the shop staff will go to the shelves to pick it up. It’s going to be the only way for a lot of these businesses to survive before long.
Not a bad idea, too many chancers in the world today, I swear since Covid restrictions ended people think they can get away with anything in public.
“The bakery chain said the changes are being introduced on a trial basis at a small number of branches across the country.”
So a small selection of Greggs. Probably the ones highest at risk of shoplifters. But guess they accidently missed that out of the headline
We’re going to end up back at counter service like cornershops had in the 1940’s.
Clothes shops will be next. There will be display items on the floor, and of you want the item it will be like an Argos deal where someone brings it out. Clothes shops lose so much stock to shoplifters
Clothes shops will be next. There will be display items on the floor, and of you want the item it will be like an Argos deal where someone brings it out. Clothes shops lose so much stock to shoplifters
I wondered why one of our Greggs had a refit that the end result didn’t look that much different.
Meanwhile in Asia they have unmanned shops. It’s only going to get worse from here.
Tell me, are the sausage rolls as good as I’m told?
I’m not surprised. Society is getting desperate or selfish and will steal anything that isn’t locked down. Including the alarms and guards.