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Remember when......

speedyg said:
Remember the click of a scratch on your favourite LP
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I do. I also remember when one of the sprogs borrowed without permission one of my favourite CDs and managed to damage it. Who would have thought leaving it on the floor and stepping on it would crack it. 😡😡
 
Do you remember when the worst that could happen when you went to the shops to buy booze was maybe, possibly, of they could be bothered, was to get carded for ID?
Security tags, then steel wire cages with security tags, now it's a locked cabinet and you have to ask for permission to have a bottle even in your basket.
It's a WTF.
First you have all these "security" measures, then self checkout with CCTV, which appears to be linked to barrier gates on those same checkouts and a CCTV station with security guys at the main door.
With all this, the notion that that putting the grog behind a locked cabinet you need a member of staff to come and unlock for you will somehow stop shoplifting of booze is just a huge fallacy. What's really going on?!!??
 
Gwilo365 said:
Do you remember when the worst that could happen when you went to the shops to buy booze was maybe, possibly, of they could be bothered, was to get carded for ID?
Security tags, then steel wire cages with security tags, now it's a locked cabinet and you have to ask for permission to have a bottle even in your basket.
It's a WTF.
First you have all these "security" measures, then self checkout with CCTV, which appears to be linked to barrier gates on those same checkouts and a CCTV station with security guys at the main door.
With all this, the notion that that putting the grog behind a locked cabinet you need a member of staff to come and unlock for you will somehow stop shoplifting of booze is just a huge fallacy. What's really going on?!!??
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Where the hell do you shop? The tuck shop in Pentonville was less secure 🔐, or so I heard.
 
Magnu said:
Where the hell do you shop? The tuck shop in Pentonville was less secure 🔐, or so I heard.
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Morrisons Blackpool.
It's never been particularly lovely, but now there's a section like a jumble sale and stock just randomly placed. Had a near stand up row when a steel drinks bottle scanned at £9, despite the shelf sticker saying £2. Staff disputed saying "these only came in yesterday"....when there's only one on an empty shelves, the shelf code and the sticker code all tallied, they wouldn't accept it was scanning wrong. Must have been awfully for themmtonhave to get up from their chair (yep, an actual chair) in the self scan tills, which now make up majority of tills (used to have 30 in person, now only 6, and usually not staffed).
Only go there out of urgency now - lidl is nicer, friendlier, better quality.
The march of selling out to "venture capitalists" like CDR. Who then resold the petrol forecourts to MFG, who promptly turned those into mobile phone accessories and vape shops with a sideline in fuel.🫣
 
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