• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy
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    1 year ago

    “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?

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      1 year ago

      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.

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          1 year ago

          Yup. Please chill and enjoy being better than the US in ways that you failed to appreciate when you brexited.

      • Flax@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        Every police officer in Northern Ireland has firearms and there’s no issue

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          1 year ago

          Or Tesco can cough up the dough for security guards like they used to, before Tesco made them “redundant” and replaced them with apparently ineffective technology as others have mentioned.

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      1 year ago

      No need for new laws here, the current laws should just be actaully enforced.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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          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.