It was really jarring when they started locking up the razors and requiring an employee unlock the case. The idea of placing the antitheft tags on like a bag of cheetos is so dystopian but at this point I'm not surprised. It's going to get worse and we will see them expand their control over us with this shit. I don't know how much further this can get but I also don't believe in the American people to do anything meaningful to resist this for a while.
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Well, this was in the UK. It's happening everywhere.
Yeah, shit's fucked. The UK and EU aren't as far into the neoliberal rot so it surprises me that I'm hearing about it happening outside of the US before hearing about it happening in the US. Anyway, stay strong.
There's a store I goto sometimes that has the laundry detergent behind glass and people have to call an employee over to get it out that makes me think we're definitely living in a great society.
Hey cool, this is exactly what happened in the years leading up to the French Revolution of 1789. When people were starving, they ended up attacking grain/food shipments and just stealing them. This resulted in repression from the King, which escalated the tension, in a positive feedback loop which ended up collapsing French social organization.
Unfortunately in the UK we aren't as revolutionary as the French. We'll probably just lick out oppressor's boots.
Unless it's a store with a membership like Costco, you have no obligation to stop for receipt checks. Just walk right past them and tell them no thank you when they ask to see your receipt.
this is US-centric advice which isn't even a great idea in the US and misunderstands the OP
The mega-Walmart has cops (as in, real man employed by state with gun and license to kill, cops) posted by the entrance. That advice is a great way to have a real bad day lol
Then they won't take the electronic tag off.
Though not as extreme as in the US I've seen the same tendency in Denmark where I live as well. Lidl has put tags on coffee, chocolate, meat and lots of processed food, like small chicken sausages, the kind of slop you would feed to children. In the supermarket where I do most of my shopping the more expensive cuts of beef has been locked inside a metal cage.
Some foodstuffs have doubled in price over the last few years with salaries lacking behind and benefits and pensions lacking even more behind the salaries.
They even have the tags on £3 blocks of cheese, the cheapest cuts of meat, the really cheap butter and even £1 bars of chocolate.
tagging and putting shit behind locked windows is the literal worst thing a store can do. they must all be destroyed