yeah I’m baffled by these. I mean, in general I think most ‘anti-theft’ shit big stores do is dumb and pointless - but if you’re gonna do an anti-theft measure, why do the one that is guaranteed to make me feel like an asshole when I tell the cashier I need two things of detergent and also six candy bars (and then awkwardly send them back when they bring back the wrong kind of candy bar). At least the security boxes can be put in your cart and brought to checkout, but I guess the store managers were like “uh, no way we’re paying someone to individually box all these candy bars” like this:
Not sure how bad it is currently in the UK. But aside from your point about feeling like an asshole for bothering a worker to get something for you. As a worker in a big box electronics store in the US, the corpos already have reduced staffing so freaking much while still 1000% freaking out if so much as two people get close enough to even hint at a line forming. While the customers also seem to be of the same opinion as the corpos with the loud moaning about how long it takes to “be helped.” So needing the already thin stretched staff to field even more utterly pointless shit pisses me off. On the plus-side, this open hostility of the rich to workers might actually be the thing that sparks revolts (would really really really love to see mass class awakening and maybe a lot of shit on fire like the French seem to do so well). But with the shoppers also being on team “fuck you lazy workers” and bootlicking the fuck out of the corps. I am guessing it is too easy to just never have popular support so long as all the range is carefully pointed at all of us.
