Major supermarket slaps security tags on its BASKETS to stop shoplifters

He said: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw they had stuck tags on shopping baskets – I mean, what are you going to do with one of them?It comes after one Tesco branch in Bristol started screening customers via CCTV before letting them in the store.

Tesco stores in Essex and north London have started putting security tags on their baskets
Tesco stores in Essex and north London have started putting security tags on their baskets

Tesco told The Sun not every branch has the policy in place and the decision to put tags on baskets is at the discretion of store teams.Cases of shoplifting in the UK have surged to record levels — with 1,300 reported every 24 hours.One Essex shopper previously told The Independent how shocked he was to see the measures in place at his Theydon Bois store.A MAJOR supermarket has slapped security tags on its baskets in an attempt to stop shoplifters.

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In the latest bid to stamp out theft, Tesco has rolled out extreme measures of attaching tags to baskets and putting theft stickers on its spuds.A source said: “Thieves have been so brazen that they would fill up an entire basket and walk away.”Is there nothing these people won’t nick?”Stores in Harlow, Essex, and Highams Park, North East London, are among those with basket tags.

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“What are they going to do next, give shoppers tags to wear until they can prove they’re not stealing?”As the cost-of-living increases, store thefts are at “epidemic levels” – with cops previously being urged to “take a zero tolerance approach” to thieves.

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