Three brutal thieves focused on a Greggs branch in London, while shocked staff and customers watched helplessly.
The trio filled their bags with sandwiches, baked products and bottles of drink in the South Ruislip branch of the bakery on Monday 10 February around 2 p.m.
In the images caught by a spectator in the store, one of the shoplifters can be seen that takes a bag full of Coca-Cola bottles.
After the woman, with a long gray jacket and hat, she fills her bag to the exit while two others continue to empty the fridge from the bakery.
A second woman in a pink jacket continues to take items from the fridge while an employee looks from behind the cash register.
Another employee can also be seen on the phone while the trio focuses on the fridge in front of the counter.
The third person, a man in a black jacket and bucket, can be seen during the incident with several bottles in his bag.
The images are placed on Tiktok where have been viewed more than 980,000 times. MailOnline has approached Greggs and the Metropolitan Police for comment.
The trio filled their bags with sandwiches, baked products and bottles of drink in the South Ruislip sector of the bakery chain
After the woman, with a long gray jacket and hat, she fills her bag to the exit while two others continue to empty the fridge of the bakery
A second woman in a pink jacket continues to take items from the fridge while an employee looks at it
Video images of shoplifters with white shoplifting shameless places in full view of staff, CCTV and customers who film on their phones have spread like an ongoing fire on social media in recent months.
Retail staff is generally discouraged from dealing with shoplifters to prevent him from being injured, according to the British retail consortium boss Helen Dickinson.
When they intervene, guards are often pelted with abuse – as happened in a Tesco in West Drayton, where a man pelted the staff with chocolate bars and shouted 'takes your hands off me for terrified children.
The BRC said last week that it had been informed of 20.4 million shoplifting incidents in the past year.
That had risen 3.7 million compared to the year before, and stores cost a total of £ 2.2 billion despite the fact that retailers invest £ 1.8 billion in countermeasures.
Shop thieves also become more brutal – committing thefts in the sight of the staff, knowing that they will probably not intervene for fear of being injured, or worse.
Mrs. Dickinson told the BBC Shoplifters looted as they liked because “they don't see that there are necessarily consequences.”
She added: “It is outrageous and got out of hand in many parts of the country.”
Only a fraction of this is probably reported to the police – because experts believe that retailers have given up to try to get justice.
Despite the BRC that reports 20.4 million theft incidents in a period of 12 months, official figures suggest that only 490,000 shoplifting was registered last year.
Labor has promised to make attacking retail staff a specific crime in England and Wales, making the countries in line with Scotland, after a campaign by post for the government to take the issue more seriously.
The current laws on shoplifting are too lax, say shopping bosses – since slightly less than £ 200 is considered a low offense that is not pursued according to critics.
Lord Stuart Rose, the former Asda and Marks & Spencer -Baas, said that the current laws effectively 'decriminalize'.
But Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer insisted that the country could not tolerate a situation in which shoplifters can walk in, make a shoplifter and walk back and nobody can do anything about it 'last year.
The frequency of incidents means that many of the three million people who work in the retail trade are terrified of coming to work, according to Retail Trust.
“People contact our helpline in their thousands to report horrible incidents of abuse and violence and many say they are now about to,” said Chris Brook-Carter, the Chief Executive of the organization.
In particular in London, shoplifting incidents have risen by 50 percent year on year the national average increase.
Mayor Sadiq Khan blamed the greater concentration of stores and the costs of living crisis.
He said yesterday about the reasons behind the turnout: 'Because we have many stores here, and because the crisis of the costs of life is more acute in the capital.
“Personal theft and personal robbery is also a great concern for me in London.”
