Honestly, how long until all of us are wearing body cameras so we have accurate evidence of what is happening?
“Mr Murphy write in the Mail on Sunday that a law should be introduced to make abuse or violence towards retail workers an offence in its own right across the UK”
Is brandishing a knife at someone not already an offense?
Surely the problem is a shameful lack of policing and more people falling into poverty following 15 years of tory rule. how is creating an offense out of something that is already an offense going to change anything?
If, as a giant corporate entity, your employees are getting wide spread abuse, you need to look at your company and assess why so much anger exists. The problem is likely rooted in Tesco treating it’s customers like shit whilst they are living through an economic crisis.
Yes, somebody who snaps and draws a weapon is ultimately in the wrong, but with the numbers of customers Tesco has there was always a good chance somebody would snap.
I mean, Tesco and others are being scrutinized for price increases beyond those justified by increased costs of of manufacturing. They harvest their customer’s data, or make them pay more. They discontinue larger “bulk” size of goods, forcing people to buy smaller more expensive sizes.
I’ve now found that the difference between a Tesco shop and a Waitrose shop (the other one I have locally) has become much smaller, and I get higher quality produce. Asda, Lidl and Aldi are much more worth the trip now.
In my opinion Tesco have used Inflation as an excuse to go to town on price rises.
Seriously. Emulating the USA’s criminal “policies” is stupid, and I live here. Next thing he’s going to suggest all your cops have guns, and then suddenly you’ll have black market firearms everywhere.
Every police officer in Northern Ireland has firearms and there’s no issue
Used to work in a pretty sizable Sainsbury’s up until last year. I never dealt with physical abuse from a customer, but I did hear about a fair bit of it, especially from the female members of staff.
Customers would come in and start being incredibly inappropriate to them. You’d hear that one customer had patted them on the bottom, or grabbed their hand. One customer would routinely come in and start trying to kiss my partner’s hand (we worked together). You report this behaviour to management and at best it’s laughed off.
Don’t even get me started on the behaviour some customers think they’re entitled to push on staff who are unfortunate enough to have to do reductions in the evening; grabbing, pushing, shouting, you name it, it’s done. Management are adamant it has to be done on the shop floor though, why? You tell me.
Ultimately what I’m trying to say is that a lot of these sort of things might be less prominent if management came out and backed their colleagues when a customer was showing signs of being a t*at. Fitting them with cameras makes it look like another profit protection measure.
Fitting them with cameras makes it look like another profit protection measure.
I was nodding along till here. Wouldn’t fitting employees with body cameras making it easier to prosecute the criminals? Lack of evidence is probably the issue in most cases.
Because in my experience (15 years of supermarket work) I’ve never seen anything get treated as importantly as they treat profit protection.
Sorry, I’m being dense this Sunday. How does this protect profit? Surely fitting employees with body cams eats into your profit as it is a cost?
These are criminal acts right? Why are they even being escalated through management, shouldn’t they just go to the police directly?
Manager here’s a copy of the police report for what happened last night, when I was assaulted while stocking shelves. Doesn’t really give them any wiggle room
Ik someone who works in Sainsbury’s and she wears a bodycamera
After 1900 our Tesco local has their doors locked and you have to be let in. Why are people such pricks. I work on the railway and someone threatened to stab me over a £4 ticket the other day. I just fucking hate people.
Crime goes up when desperation levels go up. People are desperate. Agreed, it’s wrong that it puts you in danger, but you are the face of the corporation they are angry at. It’s misdirected anger.
I hope you give your employers an earful for putting you in that vulnerable position.
