• zigmus64@lemmy.world
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      It’s probably not just catching customers as they pass by shoplifting stuff… it’s likely so the employees themselves will have a harder time lifting stuff.

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        Employee has to turn it on.

        The article said it’s mainly because employees have been attacked.

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          totally not because employees with knowledge of the store layout, receiving and stocking schedules, policies and procedures, employees and their schedules… would totally never in a million years think about ‘supplementing’ their shitty pay.

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            Since the employee would have to turn it on, they’d just turn it off if they wanted to steal.

            If they had to have them on all the time. I agree it’d be for employee theft

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        I’m also worried what someone will do when they realize they’ve been caught doing something. Some might turn on the person with the camera. At a certain point, you’re putting your employees into physical risk

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    “According to data from investment bank UBS, food prices at Woolworths and Coles increased at an average of 9.2% over the three months to December 2022, jumping from an average of 8.2% in the September quarter.”

    “Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths recorded profits in excess of $1 billion with a nearly 5 per cent increase on the previous year.”

    I 100% do not support people shoplifting but they are not the only ones guilty of theft.

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      I 100% do not support people shoplifting but they are not the only ones guilty of theft.

      So why do you not support them? The corpo execs don’t need a billion dollars but people do need to eat.

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    ‘We don’t want any suggestion we are turning employees into security cameras’

    Except that’s exactly what you are doing.

    How can they say that with a straight face.