But will they take 3 minutes to make a simple decision? VAR-style cameras have been installed at the self-checkout area in supermarket Sainsbury’s. Introduced to deter a 20% rise in shoplifting over the last year, these new security systems show customers a video replay of their product scan if it’s done incorrectly. “Looks like that […]

11 months ago

‘I’m not on the breadline but we are the definition of the squeezed middle’ As food prices remain high, one woman has admitted to being a ‘middle-class shoplifter’ and ‘regularly’ walking out the supermarket with items they haven’t paid for. Writing for the Independent, the anonymous shopper said that when she were younger she “never […]

2 years ago

‘When you steal from someone who has 6.7 million followers and get caught on camera’ Jeremy Clarkson has made a shoplifter caught on his Diddly Squat farm shop CCTV go viral. The former Top Gear host shared footage of the suspected thief in the store on Tuesday, telling his followers “this man came ‘shopping’ at […]

2 years ago

‘I am deeply sorry for the inconvenience that I have caused’ A newsagent was left a £10 note with a handwritten letter from a shoplifter apologising for stealing. Halil Kurt owns two shops in Crouch End, north London, which are popular with students from the nearby school. The 37-year-old was standing outside the branch of […]

3 years ago

Yet more confirmation that the Rock is just a really great guy Dwayne Johnson has decided to finally ‘right a wrong’ that has lived with him for decades. The Rock revealed that when he was younger, he used to visit a store in Hawaii every single day for almost a year to shoplift Snickers bars. […]

3 years ago

Fool me once… A career criminal who is set to have committed hundreds of burglaries has reportedly been arrested 101 times – and somehow managed to be let go on almost every occasion. 53-year-old Harold Gooding, a serial shoplifter who New York‘s Mayor Eric Adams has labelled “Recidivist No. 1”, is said to have been […]

3 years ago