Security Association wants powers to arrest shoplifters as theft increases
Kiwis are being hit in the pocket by an increase in supermarket shoplifting, which is estimated to be costing households hundreds of dollars.
As a result, the Security Association is calling for additional powers so they can arrest shoplifters.
One video captured two women trying to steal a trolley full of groceries, with Countdown workers trying to wrestle the trolley off them.
“You can’t touch us – you can’t touch us,” said one thief.Â
And then they fled, leaving staff on edge.Â
Let’s start, straight up, before we get into the other issues, by first telling the Security Association who want more powers to arrest shoplifters to go fuck themselves.
You.
Go.
Fuck.
Off.
Right.
Now.
We do not need jumped up poorly trained parking wardens starting physical fights with shoplifters by attempting arrests.
Arresting another human being is a specialised job given to the Police with all the necessary legal rights and safeguards attached.
Are you seriously suggesting we get the kind of security staff we see at supermarkets engage in physical arrests?
That is a recipe for someone having their head smashed on the bloody ground and killed you fucking muppets!
Why are you so easy to emotionally manipulate NZ and you always choose the dumbest solutions because you are frightened.
Secondly, if your greedy venal price gouging supermarket has self check out, it is your obligation to shoplift from them. If your greedy venal supermarket is cost cutting staff wages with self check out computers, you have a more obligation to steal from them as a fuck you to the greedy vernal supermarket who is screwing over workers by replacing them with self checkout.
Thirdly, if you see a shoplifter, don’t be a fucking Karen and nark!
We are living through the steepest food inflation in 40 years, I don’t judge the hungry for stealing, especially from a greed venal duopoly who are price going us and making millions in obscene profits!
Fuck the Supermarkets!
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I’m waiting for the first organized food raids. I wonder if Adrian Orr sits at his big desk pencil and pad doodling figures and equations increase interest rates by x = decrease inflation by y = increase unemployment by z =increase social division by ? There are 2 belief systems in the world held up only by thin air and faith the belief in God and the belief in money There are 2 things only out of thousands of items that supermarkets won’t let you choose with your own hands cigarettes and pots of kina go figure
If you are robbing the grocery store instead of the bank, clearly you are very poor! (Or perhaps just the dumbest burglar ever.)
We can’t let the Labour Party off the hook with this one. They are totally disinterested in bringing back the high wage jobs, have no plans for slum clearance, still support the abolition of the Full Employment Policy and the Award System, and their management of state housing has been a total failure.
If millions of people are suffering from collapsing wages (or none at all), you’ll never have enough policemen to shoot them all.
Very difficult to storm into the bank and carry out those ones and zeros in the computer. They dont hold paper except the mortgages.
I’m surprised no one has been ram raiding supermarkets yet. Surely only a matter of time.
Too much effort to be running around a large supermarket?
12 year olds can’t cook.
I agree, Stuff the supermarkets – they make plenty of profits and are more criminal that the shop lifters in many cases, with overpriced and increasingly, expired goods!
Also agree that poorly trained staff arresting people is not the answer.
BUT it’s got to the point where taking stuff is mainstream now. Want some food or goods, break into your neighbours and help yourself.
Need groceries, just load up trolleys and then walk out – they are the ones threatening staff.
Need transport, steal a car.
Want ciggies, hold up the local dairy or like the horrendous article from yesterday, knock of the neighbours door and then proceed to stab and beat her for not giving you a cigarette in your Kainga ora house while on parole for other crimes.
We are now a long way from a kid stealing a pint of milk or some nappies from the Dairy because they need them.
40 years ago nobody locked their doors – people would deliver milk in glass bottles and leave money for it on the street – nobody took it. Society is not getting more honest, but allowing dishonesty to be the norm by it’s acceptance of it.
The signs are already there, due to extreme levels of entitlement from certain people in NZ who are escalating from stealing to harming others. (The dairy murder, the teenager who broke into the farmer pensioners house to steal his car 4 times). Likewise the terrorism, where foreign nationals actually come to NZ to carry out their terror plans and training as we are a soft touch and then our politicians blame middle NZ!
What is the bet the women that loaded up the trolleys are also bludging off the state – now a lifestyle! Can someone please donate them some weight watchers along with the food parcels – more and more are not exercising, not working, drinking, with obesity and diabetes on the hoof- ready to take up that next hospital bed – while complaining how hard their life is.
I mean who can blame them, with the free supermarkets now for certain people – some are deserving with disabilities – but you also get the feeling that many just expect others to provide for them drugs, food, accomodation, and make it easier and easier for this to happen.
I would prefer the focus on making food more affordable for all and wages higher, and for those that have disabilities getting a higher standard of living by getting rid of those who are life styling on benefits? Work 40+ hours on low wages and then complain – I have a lot more sympathy!
Went to Rotorua. Previously has seen very few beggars there. Now not only are there so many beggars everywhere, they actually are coming into the restaurants and going around the tables asking for money. For a tourist town, it’s not really a good look.
Last month a youth was going around restaurants in St Heliers after he had just stabbed a random passerby. When the staff asked if they could help him, he told them he was waiting for police. The guy was young – in his 20’s apparently.
Oooooh in St Hellieeers darling what was the scoundrel doing there lol.
Apparently knifing someone. Just another day in Nu Zilland.
Not just AK, this 60yo gets beaten up for no reason. The police apparently take half an hour to arrive at their own police station. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/whangarei-man-dragged-from-car-beaten-and-robbed-on-way-home-from-work/GQZQYZJGXFBCJKYQXLTA45R6HY/
If government want to know where the missing workers are, it is astonishing the amount of people who are randomly beaten up in NZ and then often can’t work afterwards – the beatings disable them for life. Hopefully not in this man’s case – but could be where all the missing workers are, in between the unemployed thugs beating up people to the victims beaten up and not able to work anymore.
You can import more people to work in NZ, but if it’s now a lifestyle to go around robbing and beating up random strangers and out of control behaviour that seems to be empowered by the government and police inactivity on this. Hugs and millions of money to gangs and indifference to constant crime, aren’t helping.
Hahah, this is hilarious. These crooks are seriously trying to blame their windfall profits on shoplifters.
The rise of vigilanteism is Nye. We will see it because of the pressures out there. Police are not tough enough for the Karen’s.
You are completely wrong! There is no excuse for crookery whether you are rich or poor. Nobody in NZ is as poor as my post-depression grandparents who lost their all, except their honesty. People just don’t know how to manage their lives in this country, because we constantly cry “Poor you!” that is the worst we can take from them – their confidence and self-esteem. You make me sick.
fwiw
Our local New World have recently removed all Gregg’s herb/spice products from their shelves.
Apparently because the company wouldn’t comply, so it’s claimed, with some extortionist demand for Gregg’s to lower wholesale pricing. Gregg’s spice products were already very competitive in comparison to the more expensive one still on the shelf. So, the loss is the consumer’s detriment.
NZers have been buying this line of products for many generations, it’s not a good look.
FFS – lol @ all the soft on crime rhetoric that totally misses the point. Ring the effing cops like everyone else has too. Private police force is just a step away from fascism. Security thugs can go and get fucked.
Arrest the shoplifters. Charge them, take them to court and let the judge decide if they were stealing out of hunger.
You see in NZ you can go to food bank, the soup kitchen and/or family can help you out.
The moral code in our country has gone down the gurglar. Hell my parents lived through the depression when people went hungry and no one stole
Fifty years ago as 14 year old on the way to my milk run I got heavily bailed up against a wall by the plods because the new milk boy I was training had raided all the coins from the milk bottles on his way to work. The good old days.
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