Gigantic trolley scales that are tested by Tesco have caused a mixed reaction with ensuring that 'honest shoppers' are treated as thieves'.
Trolleys are weighed before checking out those who use scan while you shop (say) to ensure that the weight is the same as the scanned items.
Three of the cash register were installed in the Tesco store in Gateeshead, while the Says system was rolled out in a select number of stores in the UK.
However, some shoppers thought that the cash register looked more airport protection with one person who pointed out that they were similar to Epasssport Gates.
Business Retail advisor Gedter is of the opinion that the measures have been brought in to tackle the rising levels of shoplifting and reduce personnel costs, not to make the cash register system faster.
In a warning for Tesco, he said that if shoppers 'are treated as thieves, they go somewhere else'. Crim
'They forget that trust is the most important thing for all retailers and it works both sides. If customers do not feel familiar or think they are being treated as thieves, they will go somewhere else, “he told the BBC.
Retail criminologist Procfesor Emmeline Taylor added that the scales 'fairly ominous were and are reminiscent of security scanners'.
British shoppers are divided over the new scan of Tesco while you shop cash register with gigantic trolley scales
Tesco has rolled out the scan while shopping (says) system in a select number of stores in the UK
Business retail advisor Gedter is of the opinion that the measures have been taken to tackle the rising levels of shoplifting and reduce personnel costs
“They don't want to give the impression that they point their finger at their honest customer,” she said.
Reddit users agreed and joked that the scanners were comparable to security controls at airports.
“Am I at Border Control or Tesco?” A user asked. Another said: 'Come before shopping, stay for the full body scan! Wtf. '
“Are those the gates for the new Heathrow lane?” A third early.
“TSA Tesco Security Administration,” someone else said. In the meantime, another added: “Make the Tesco passport better ready.”
Others were also skeptical about how accurate the large scales would be for smaller items and if the new technology would work effectively.
“(Who) knows how that will work when it should be sensitive enough to work for such as birthday cards and also have sufficient variance for different bags that people use, pendants, product weight, etc.”
Some of those who do not want development doubted the accessibility and effectiveness of the 'insane' new cash register.
'Those floor scales will cause headaches. Especially since supermarkets are not so good in the calibration of scales, “wrote a shopper.
'There is hardly any wheelchair accessible. Absolutely do not fit my wheelchair there, “said a second.
'This is all going too far now. Can we not go back to mainly staffed to cash register and just have the strange couple self -service for 10 items or less? “Someone asked.
“A very dystopic feeling, in the hope that the general public will vote with their feet,” another Chimed in it.
But some customers were large fans of the modern store method.
'Did you use these things? They are 10 times more convenient and faster. I like to walk past gigantic queues with a full trolley, scan screen, paying and already packed with bags. If you don't want to use them, not, “said a man.
'I'm completely for it! Why would you wait to be 'processed' if you can place, pay and go in a trolley? “Another agreed.
It comes after shoplifting rose by 23 percent to more than 490,000 a year to reach the highest level since the records started, official figures revealed last month.
The shocking data is further proof of the worsening theft epidemic of Great -Britain, of which an industry -organ that was today 'was' out of hand'.
A total of 492,914 offenses were registered by the police in the year until September, the Office of National Statistics (us) found – the highest figure since the current police registration practices started for the year ending on March 2003.
The police registered 1.8 million theft in the year to September, an increase of two percent powered by shoplifting and an increase of 22 percent in crimes with theft of a person (146,109). MES -violations and robberies each rose by four percent.
It is amidst warnings that shoplifting 'gets out of hand' after a study by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) suggested that there were more than 2,000 incidents per day, where staff were confronted with attack, threatened with weapons and racial and sexual abuse.
There were more than 55,000 incidents of theft per day, equal to more than 20 million in total.
The alarming figures show that the problem is getting worse, with cases of attacks and shoplifting of last year's record to be a fresh high since the surveys started in 2001.
This is despite the fact that companies pay a record of £ 1.8 billion on prevention tactics such as CCTV, more guards and cameras worn through the body.
About 61 percent of retailers say that the police response to calls for help 'poor' or 'very poor' has been.
Retailers report unprecedented levels of violence against their staff, with the number of incidents with a weapon that more than doubles to 70 a day.
