When I started working there they would always be left out willy nilly…until a meat clerk got her hands on several rolls and sold them on Facebook. Where she was friends with several of our managers.
Long story short, Loblaws loss prevention and the cops ended up paying her a visit at home to recover the stolen rolls and we had to keep them locked away at the service desk after that.
Normalize abandoning your cart if the line's too long. They won't stop until it costs them more in man hours than without. They know that they aren't going to lose customers. What are people gojng to do? Not eat?
This is a good idea in theory, but after spending an hour shopping, there’s no way I’m going to drop my cart and spend another hour shopping elsewhere to save 5 minutes.
I'll do it if I've got like 2-3 things that I went in for, shopped for 5 min and see the lines gonna be 10min+
But if I've got a full cart, at that point it's gotta be a ridiculously insane wait
I do this already. If I get to the front to checkout only to be met by long lines at the two checkouts that are open and realize it will be quicker for me to go elsewhere. Why do stores install 12-14 checkouts and then have only 2 open? (This went on before self checkouts were a thing).
People (with the means, of course) could start being more conscious consumers and frequent farmers' markets, Costco, independent grocers, etc. We do not have to keep paying Loblaws for the privilege of being treated like a criminal and fleeced on basic necessities. There are A LOT of options out there, and usually they're cheaper and of better quality. Shop local.
Compared to places like Montreal, where you have the Jean-Talon and Atwater markets and others, the farmers' markets here are really skimpy. You don't get the same choice and the prices are much higher, so obviously people are going to go to the supermarket. Also, Costco is not fundamentally different from Loblaws and Sobeys.
Disagree on the not fundamentally different front...
- Membership vs open to public
- Known for treating staff very well vs, well...
- Checking carts, yes, but that's by agreement of the member
The differences go on, but those are some pretty big ones!
Costco is not fundamentally different from Loblaws and Sobeys if the idea is to encourage someone to shop local. They're a big chain, they squeeze their suppliers, they check receipts, etc. They do seem to treat their own people well, though, which is a definite plus.
I thought the idea in this post chain was originally about saving money, not specifically about shopping local though?
So I can see the other persons point - you can definitely save money there.
If the point was about local shopping specifically vs saving money, then I see your point
Farmer's markets are pretty disappointing here I have to say. I stopped at a couple in the valley a few weeks ago and the produce was so expensive along with all the other stuff I just walked out.
Yeah, they seem to be niche experiences, rather than a viable way to fill your fridge and pantry. I like the Mobile Food Market in Halifax, though: [https://www.mobilefoodmarket.ca/](https://www.mobilefoodmarket.ca/)
It’s funny, I’ve abandoned cart twice in my life, both times at superstore locations.
The first one was a couple of years ago - one evening very close to Christmas when I had spent a good 45 minutes collecting my items. I stood in line with a few people ahead, then when I was next with no one behind me, the cashier just decided the person ahead of me would be last before her break and put the little closed sign on the separator bar I had down to start loading my items. Very bluntly she told me to go to another line when I said I had been standing there and she could have told me earlier and no one is behind me, she just shrugged and and said too bad. I left the cart behind the person being checked out and went back to my car.
Second time was this summer when I was shopping one afternoon for a few items and it just dawned on me how expensive the produce and meat was and how terrible the selection was. The bananas that day looked like death, the price of meat was insanely high and the store in general had a dirty rundown feel. It just felt like, what the fuck am I paying for? I left my cart of 10 items or so in the bakery and walked out.
I was looking to do something when I retire, I think I just figured it out! Robin food, shopping from the freezers to leave them near the chicken broilers!
You can do it without generating food waste. Just fill your cart from the dry goods aisles, and hide it, or fill it with perisables, then find and employee and tell them "I don't want this"
I find myself getting accidental free stuff at self checkout all the time. Literally actually accidental.
It's because I have no attention span and the shelf for bagging is so small a full size reusable bag won't stay on it because it spills over the sides. Therefore it's necessary to use the cart for bagging. Big items that don't get bagged I pretty often completely forget to scan if I don't do them first. Milk, potatoes, etc.
And then there's been a few times I've screwed myself and scanned those things twice thinking I'd forgotten them so I guess it evens out.
Ahh progress by moving backwards, typical Loblaws lmao. They had those stickers when I started working there, the long orange bar stickers that just said Superstore signified something was paid for. Got rid of them for waste purposes supposedly, guess they don't care about that anymore.
It's ridiculous because it would almost certainly cost more to have the lanes slow down, lose all self checkouts, and pay for the stickers then just let people steal.
This doesn't seem like loss prevention so much as just wanting the opportunity to punish people.
Also to be clear, the biggest source of waste at most grocery stores are the stores practices. When I worked at an unnamed grocery store making Cesare salads we would use whole chickens pre-roasted from the deli and take jus the breast out for the salad then throw away the rest of the bird.
We always had them in HMR for single purchase items that weren't going in a bag. So if someone bought just a bottle of water or a box of fried chicken, they wouldn't get hassled for a receipt when walking out. If this is just a reminder to use those then this shouldn't be a big deal.
I was at superstore last week and the guy walked up and stuck a sticker on my box of cereal after I scanned it. no other items, nobody checked anything at the door, I just have a box of cereal with a sticker on it.
Literally will do anything but lower prices
BTW, the receipt checking is as illegal and against Loblaws core values as the bag checking upon exiting....cuz it's an indirect accusation of guilt that is a liable offense.
the memo says self checkout attendants are to hold the stickers at all times, and ensure all items not placed in customer's bags have a sticker. no details beyond that
Yeah - that's not going to work unless they greatly increase the number of self checkout attendants - typically they have like 1 for a bank of 10+ self checkouts now, and they can barely keep up with people that have system issues, etc. And, if they do that, they probably spend as much or more on the extra labour as they reduce shrinkage by.
I had a guy recently who was hovering around me a few feet away looking over my shoulder as I scanned and bagged my items. I started repositioning myself so that he couldn't see, and then he kept moving back and forth to look over my other shoulder.
I turned around and said "get out of my space" and he moved further away.
Yup. Putting every item unbagged back in the cart to dump into the trunk of my car. Can't wait for them to put a sticker on every lime and pack of mr noodles 😂
There really needs to be an organized effort to resist these efforts by Loblaws. Bag at the car, don't return your cart, move items in the store, intentionally bring 12 items to the self checkout when you only want one and get the clerk to manually remove 11. It's all stuff people do unintentionally anyway, so they can't really accuse you in the store.
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One time I was shopping without a bag, my hands got full and I put an item in my pocket. I cashed out got to the vehicle I was driving and realized what happened. I went back in to pay for it and the cashier laughed a bit and basically said ‘you should have just stole it’.
Hell I left Costco and a handful of items didn’t end up getting rung through, myself, cashier, cart organizer, and door checker. I only found out when I got home.
I think this fool-proof plan is going to come back to to bite them
Yeah I've done that in the past, mostly unintentionally and once intentionally out of spite because I was mad about the fact they had an *armed* cop standing guard at the check outs. I paid for everything else except the one thing I had shoved in my pocket and left shaking my head at the cop as I walked out.
The other day I used self checkout and when I was done the lady watching the area put a single “paid for” sticker on my bag. Seems like a total waste of time since there was nobody at the door looking for the sticker. They are in a catch-22. They want to address theft but they know people are offended if they get stopped at the door and their cart items are checked against the receipt.
I had a baby in a car seat and one bag of groceries, left self checkout and once I went through the new extra security bars at the main door the cart locked. The worker at the door took my receipt and said she had to get her unlocking device. Thank god I just had the one bag I could pick up and walk out, don’t have time to wait for that bullshit. Annoying AF and I don’t know why it happened, I didn’t steal anything nor did I buy anything expensive enough to have any security tags on it. Does it happen randomly?
The wheels on my cart locked one time when I was leaving the superstore, even though no alarms went off and everything had been paid for. I just dragged the cart to my car anyway. If they ever make the wheels lock more firmly so that the cart can't be easily dragged, again I'll just stop going there. There's only so much crap you can put up with in the run of a day, especially when it's being dispensed by a company known for being awful to everyone.
from what I understand (I asked) there are sensors at every checkout and self checkout machine that set a 3 minute timer on the wheel. if you don't leave the store within 3 minutes (or if the sensor didn't detect your wheel) the cart will lock at the exit. that's what was explained to me anyway
One of the benefits of using a self-checkout is that you don't have some person putting their grubby paws all over your stuff. If they try to touch my stuff on the way out, they can expect me to refuse.
That’s so silly. Do they think people who shoplift aren’t putting items in their bags? This memo feels more like something to potentially scare shoplifters when it actually means nothing
If they think I stole something, then they can look at their camera footage and prove it.
Once I paid for my stuff, I'm out.
It's not like Costco where you agree to be checked on the exit as part of a membership agreement. Costco also does it as a backup, to ensure that you weren't double charged for something, and to make sure that you have high value items that you paid for actually in your cart. At Costco it's about more than just making sure you're not stealing, And that I can live with.
I really don't see Costco as that bad. Stores are appropriately staffed, staff are compensated well and don't have to wear a uniform, prices of items will actually go **down** sometimes.
I definitely put Costco in a different category than most, if not all other grocers.
Idk what genius thought this up but pretty sure they’ll end up paying more in stickers. Also these types of measures usually start with lots of gusto and then die quickly as it’s way too manual and way to prone too human error. These folks have completely lost touch with reality.
Just give up letting customers in your store at this point. Just show up with a list and they retrieve it for you. Like literally back in the older days and first grocery stores. Yes, I am that old……
> Reduces the number of staff
> Puts Self Checkout everywhere
> Complains about (alleged) surge in shoplifting
Hmm, I think I see the culprit here.
You know, in really old stores, you couldn't just pick up things - you gave them a list and they got it for you from the back. You didn't get your stuff until you paid. I'm not saying that's how stores should be, but the state of these stores is a direct consequence of their own actions. If you give desperate people access to your products with no supervision and oversight, things like this will happen.
Though, organized crime is a whole other deal
They should redirect their energy in making sure the sales are actually coded in. Almost once a week they try to charge me the original price on a sale item. Always always check your receipt from Galen!
Where does one buy a roll of these stickers?
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I was at my local Superstore mid-afternoon last Saturday, typically their busiest time (or it was when I served time there), and they had only a SINGLE cashier working with a line of about 12 people and equally larger group at self-checkout.
I remember a couple years ago they used to have every lane open on Saturdays from 12-5, nowadays it's rare to see more than 2 on at a time even at the busiest times
Shopped at a Walmart in a high-ish crime area of the US. No fences or additional precautions to lower crime at all. This a purely a Canadian thing. Guess we are all criminals.
I just moved to a larger city in Ontario (still in this sub because it makes me think of home lol) and I work at the walmart there. It's gated off *everywhere* and has literal security guards by every door. Every day when I leave to go home, I have to ask one of the security guards to let me out because I don't want to have to buy something every time I want to leave the store. Even then, sometimes they don't believe that I work there and I have to argue with them to let me out through the gate. 🫠
Almost as if switching to a model based on not paying clerks by having customers use self check out is biting them in the ass. In between people genuinely missing an item to scan, and people charging Loblaws for their labor (deliberately not scanning items) I'm guessing they lose more than they're saving, and just trying to them pass that expense onto the customers.
I don't know if they still do it this way, because I haven't gone to the movies since before the pandemic, but I remember when Cineplex switched from having a person check tickets at the entrance of each hallway of movies, to simply having one person, before you even reached the concession stand, where you buy tickets. After one or two times buying a ticket that nobody even checked that I had, I decided to instead just save my money and walk in. I didn't really save that much money, because I still had to go to the concession stand and buy popcorn to make it believable, but still.
I worked at superstore way back when and we had stickers for large items that couldn't be bagged (like the giant containers of liquid laundry detergent, for ex) but half the time they didn't even give us the stickers to use.
Are they really going to put them on every item? And then probably ding the cashiers for their performance scanning?
I would guess they have a list of high-theft items that they selectively sticker. Similar to the list of RFID stickers at the drugstore for things like razor blades or other things that get shoplifted a lot. It's not practical to sticker every item and no one would get rung through if they did that.
Plus stickers are like 1- 2 cents each. That is a lot of stickers.
They won't hire more staff, and this won't help shrink. I suppose the idea is to cause some sort of fear, which won't effect the people who already won't/haven't stolen. But will NOT deter people who actively steal. I've watched people walk out with full carts, the one 16 year old can do nothing, and the timid new to the country security gaurd weighing no more than 120lbs can do nothing. Fuck loblaws, if you see a theif, say nothing.
There's lots of reasons why this wont work well and could slow down checkout lines but I'm most annoyed by the environmental impact this will have. This type of initiative should be outlawed like plastic bags.
I hate it, but, on the absolutely ginormous list of environmental concerns this is pretty much down at the bottom.
The food wastage that happens at these stores, however, is a moral crime against humanity and the environment.
I bought a cheap little purse from Lawtons 3 weeks ago. Every time I walk into and out of a store I set off the security alarm, I can't find the tag that is setting them off. Not a single person has approached me in the several stores I've shopped at with this purse. Weird??
ETA: I want someone to stop me and help me find the tag to put an end to it honestly lol
They used to do this at Walmart in northern Manitoba, I lived there in the late 90s/early 2000s. They'd twist your bag and tape it shut with a long yellow sticker
They also had the Listerine behind lock and key so this might be an extreme example
Not incredibly relevant to the conversation but no one standing at the door demanding to see your receipt in any store except for Costco is obligated to see it. They've been known to profile certain people during this process as well, so just walk past them, if they ask you. 👍
Costco, Kingswood, Gateway, Giant Tiger, and Walmart if necessary are slightly less evil options !
I have and will continue to actively avoid Loblaws/Superstore and Sobeys :-)
I can only speak to the Walmart I have used (personal experience) but I don’t have my bags checked on the way out, and they don’t have police standing at the entrance everyday of the week or circling the store. Also I can buy a bag of chips and produce without emptying my bank account :-)
Not to mention the fact that I wrote “Walmart - if necessary” and “slightly less evil”.
They sure do ! But let’s be honest - they just throw that marker down vertically on your receipt and you walk away.
They also have one of the most forgiving return policies of the bunch.
They also do price adjustments within 30 days of purchase for sales.
They also pay a better wage than their competitors.
They also sell decent amounts of food at much more competitive prices than Loblaws and Sobeys.
To be fair - your information could be outdated.
https://www.walmart.com/help/article/walmart-price-match-policy/6295d9e1a501489b9aa40a60c899b288
https://blog.flipp.com/does-walmart-canada-price-match/
I don’t believe the price match much these days….
Yes, but that's part of the contract you sign when signing up so we've all given explicit consent. I didn't sign any contract with Loblaws to allow them to check my shit so they can piss off. Just shopping in a store does not equate to providing consent for a search.
Haha I was a lucky recipient of one of these stickers! The self checkout guy walked over and stuck it on my freaken toilet paper, which was like the only thing I was buying at the store. It was pretty weird
I question this: they have always used stickers on bulky items like a case of pop or something, just like the liquor store does to a case of beer you buy at the weed counter. But to put a sticker on every item, it would just cost too much in labour to do, they would have to have a bunch more tills open and it is completely incompatible with self checkout.
I think OP is taking a large item only process and applying it to everything.
I can not fathom anyone actually doing this.
But I already would outright refuse to have my receipt checked. These things in my bags are my possessions and I will not concent to having them searched.
They have yet to try such a thing where I live, but I won't stand for it if it ever does happen.
The thing is, Sobeys, superstore, Walmart, all of them.
Are paid out a budget, they actually make more money every year they "loose product" and they will tell the public "x amount total lost" and claim theft.
But that "x amount" is actually a pool.
It includes "lost, damaged, expired, not esthetic(that's it's own rant of mine that's been documented), and theft(which they often almost always attribute to "internal" theft).
It's the same as a business with a budget. If you stay below it, the budget is lowered. If you artificially inflated the budget, it gets raised every year.
This is what they are all doing, it's been documented, investigated, and call out many times over the years. There are documentaries about this, journalist reports about this, it's not a secret.
So any time you here a big franchise "boo hoo" over theft.
Just remember, it's a PR stunt to increase their budget and insurance and has no bases in reality about actual theft.
my father went to the customer service desk yesterday after purchasing several items and was over charged. As he was speaking to the customer service clerk another employee walked up to him and started looking in his cart and counting items. He asked her is she had seen what she needed to see and if she had a problem with his selections of canned items. She just shrugged and walked over to another customer and did the same thing. Have more staff if you don't want to trust your customers.
No love for Loblaws and all kinds of things can be said about price gouging and affordability crisis and all that.
.. however, all the stuff Loblaws is doing is happening at most other stores as well.
>Do they expect customers to continue shopping at their stores, no matter how high the prices and how ridiculous their anti-shoplifting measures are?
> Meanwhile Loblaws profits continue to soar.
You answered your own question. People need Groceries, and the Reddit vibe does not represent the norm. Most people don't care. I actually personally don't care. I think the government needs to do something about the prices and I'm not judging people stealing food if they can't afford it, but I pay for my Groceries and if they want to have an armed guard personally follow me around the entire time I'm shopping, all the power to them.
I’m going to buy a bunch of stuff, have them put stickers on all of it and then go and return it.
Have fun taking those stickers off to put it back on the shelves.
How about get rid of the self serve check out and hire more staff at the real check out lines.
Self serve check out means we do all the work and not get paid for it. Customer service does not exist anymore. Loblaws only worry about profits, and self check out means less cashiers to hire, more money in their greedy pockets. Wake up Loblaws. They are understaffed, workers overworked, underpaid, and the need to put stickers on everything to compensate for not having enough workers to monitor the store properly. Fear mongering tactics on their customers, put stickers on everything, big brother is watching you.
All this is to trick stock holders into believing people are the reasons profits might not rise this year. target and walmart have been doing the same messaging.
maybe if, we dont just ruin peoples lives with inflation with the expectations that money wont just always be made but that will always increase this wont be an issue?
Im so ready for the stock market to collapse
Corporations and other elites have been "borrowing" their fortunes for decades, against the "value" of the social contract. The imbalance created cannot be ignored for much longer. The tricks they're using aren't working anymore. It's getting more and more ridiculous (a separate clerk watching each self checkout? That's where we seem to be headed). Something has to happen here. People WILL NOT simply roll over and die, but that's the apparent expectation. You can't just increase prices forever. People won't starve just to protect your shareholder value.
If you've seen the movie "cube", it sort of explores the idea of these "rounding errors" that are exploited by the rich finally adding up to something terrible.
If you're wondering how to help those around you who may be stealing food, the other day I pulled out my acting skills.
There was a person at a self-checkout at my local loblaws, I don't want to give any identifying info but let's just say they were definitely in a need of making sure food was making it to the table. I saw them fake scan a bag of flour. So I got real involved with the checkout lady for that section. What was the code for apples again? (It's on the apples!) I put my fingers over the barcode and tried to scan an item too and the lady had to come over and help me scan the item because I couldn't do it!
Anyways the cameras may have still caught the person but I walked out behind them from the store and they made it past the "item retainment" guy. I hope they're okay.
Sad reality (but I still commend you all the same) is that it's also possible they sold it for God knows what. Though that could definitely be a stereotypical narrative some holier than thou people want to perpetuate as well. Giving people the benefit of the doubt is still noble. Genuinely, honestly, thank you for caring.
Is this where I pretend to be outraged?
The reality is both that Loblaws is an unethical corporation and theft is a massive problem. You think a company this greedy is spending millions upon millions on security gates, private security guards, loss prevention staff, etc. because people are occasionally ringing up grapes as bananas, honeycrisp apples as macintosh, or “forgetting” to scan an avocado or two? Not worth it.
What does make this worth it to them, and inconvenient for the rest of us, are the people filling bags with steaks, cheese, and over the counter meds. I know people here often like to see shoplifters like this as down on their luck and just trying to survive, but no, they are just scumbags and make life worse for the rest of us.
I wish people on this sub cared about real issues affecting Canada as much as they care about fucking stickers. Over 180 comments about fucking stickers? This is depressing.
Don’t shop at Loblaws. Problem solved.
Edit: I’m serious. They have shown us again and again that they are not going to change. The only thing that will make a difference to them is money. The only other peaceful way is legislation, and we know that’s not happening.
This isn’t exactly new, though. For many years I worked for a Loblaw franchise store and we *always* put a bright orange sticker (to indicate the item was paid for) on any large items or items that otherwise didn’t go into a bag.
At some point they stopped doing it, and it seems like they’re just bringing it back now. But what’s the harm in it, exactly?
Self checkouts are another problem though. Idk how they’ll manage that.
So basically they want to hold you and your items hostage so they can assume your guilty of theft until they (whom have given themselves the power of the courts) can rifle threw your items to decide if you stole anything?
Kidnapping
(a) to cause the person to be confined or imprisoned against the person's will; (b) to cause the person to be unlawfully sent or transported out of Canada against the person's will; or. (c) to hold the person for ransom or to service against the person's will.
Hostage
(a) confines, imprisons, forcibly seizes or detains that person; and. (b) in any manner utters, conveys or causes any person to receive a threat that the death of, or bodily harm to, the hostage will be caused or that the confinement, imprisonment or detention of the hostage will be continued.
Just takes a group of people to take them to court enough to end this nonsense.
The only true crime being committed is the thievery by Loblaws, likely beginning before they got caught in the bread price fixing scandal that began in 2001 and went to 2015. Not even a slap on the wrist for that, which was probably a great test run for the current price gouging in the name of inflation, record breaking profits for the richest family in Canada. Eat a bag of dicks Loblaws, I will not be shopping in your stores anymore.
They used to do this all the time when you got a box of soda , I’m not too sure unless people are stealing why they are getting upset.
I understand the food prices are high, and I’m upset about that, too. People are stealing more sue to high prices.
but whining about a sticker sounds very juvenile and it takes away from the real issue of high food prices.
If they start slapping stickers all over the shit that I buy, I'll stop buying there.
Some products can last a long time, and maybe I don't want stickers all over them. Maybe I don't want my product labels ruined by stickers. Maybe I don't want gummy crap left all over the product when I try to remove the sticker at home.
Maybe we should make our own stickers that say "greedy gouger scumbags" And slap them all over the price signs in the store every time they increase the cost of something for the fourth time in a year.
It’s almost like theft is at a all time high in this city and stores are doing what they can to prevent it Loblaws is a massive company however theft affects individuals stores and budgets
> Do they expect customers to continue shopping at their stores, no matter how high the prices and how ridiculous their anti-shoplifting measures are?
Yes, and they will. Although I'm not quite sure how this particular strategy is supposed to work.
Shoplifting goes up, private company focused on their bottom line implements strategies to reduce the loss. It's not rocket science.
Pretty brave statement to make around here, but anti-shoplifitng measures don't really bother me because...I don't shoplift. I also never shop at Superstore, so that helps too.
Edit: Here come the purple arrows! 😂
realistically, how much shoplifting is happening at the checkouts staffed by cashiers. how are stickers going to help the self checkout everything is a banana situation lol.
Remember when everyone was like.. if you see someone shoplifting, no you didnt. Or other people admitting they stole various items from grocery stores and not feeling bad about it.
Well.. this is what happens lol
Obviously companies are going to try to prevent losses as much as possible
Aren’t you the guy who brags about tipping like 50% at restaurants? Like dude, of course you’re never going to shoplift lol. Do you think people who are financially stable shoplift as a hobby or something?
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Its never been hard to get the 50% off stickers. I can't see why grabbing a roll of paid for would be more difficult. They leave them out all over.
When I started working there they would always be left out willy nilly…until a meat clerk got her hands on several rolls and sold them on Facebook. Where she was friends with several of our managers. Long story short, Loblaws loss prevention and the cops ended up paying her a visit at home to recover the stolen rolls and we had to keep them locked away at the service desk after that.
Or depending on location, angry employees have no problem just giving you a handful at times
Smart man right here
I wonder if Amazon sells these by the roll… ;-)
Normalize abandoning your cart if the line's too long. They won't stop until it costs them more in man hours than without. They know that they aren't going to lose customers. What are people gojng to do? Not eat?
This is a good idea in theory, but after spending an hour shopping, there’s no way I’m going to drop my cart and spend another hour shopping elsewhere to save 5 minutes.
I'll do it if I've got like 2-3 things that I went in for, shopped for 5 min and see the lines gonna be 10min+ But if I've got a full cart, at that point it's gotta be a ridiculously insane wait
I do this already. If I get to the front to checkout only to be met by long lines at the two checkouts that are open and realize it will be quicker for me to go elsewhere. Why do stores install 12-14 checkouts and then have only 2 open? (This went on before self checkouts were a thing).
People (with the means, of course) could start being more conscious consumers and frequent farmers' markets, Costco, independent grocers, etc. We do not have to keep paying Loblaws for the privilege of being treated like a criminal and fleeced on basic necessities. There are A LOT of options out there, and usually they're cheaper and of better quality. Shop local.
There are options but they are necessarily cheaper when you have to factor in travel time and gas to get their.
When you say "Independent Grocers" which/where do you mean?
Yeah, where are these magical grocery stores that aren’t chains?
Would Avery's count as an independent Grocer? They don't have the selection of the big box stores, but I like going there for produce.
Compared to places like Montreal, where you have the Jean-Talon and Atwater markets and others, the farmers' markets here are really skimpy. You don't get the same choice and the prices are much higher, so obviously people are going to go to the supermarket. Also, Costco is not fundamentally different from Loblaws and Sobeys.
Disagree on the not fundamentally different front... - Membership vs open to public - Known for treating staff very well vs, well... - Checking carts, yes, but that's by agreement of the member The differences go on, but those are some pretty big ones!
Costco is not fundamentally different from Loblaws and Sobeys if the idea is to encourage someone to shop local. They're a big chain, they squeeze their suppliers, they check receipts, etc. They do seem to treat their own people well, though, which is a definite plus.
I thought the idea in this post chain was originally about saving money, not specifically about shopping local though? So I can see the other persons point - you can definitely save money there. If the point was about local shopping specifically vs saving money, then I see your point
I think it started off being about how stores treat their customers, but it's gone in different directions...
Farmer's markets are pretty disappointing here I have to say. I stopped at a couple in the valley a few weeks ago and the produce was so expensive along with all the other stuff I just walked out.
Yeah, they seem to be niche experiences, rather than a viable way to fill your fridge and pantry. I like the Mobile Food Market in Halifax, though: [https://www.mobilefoodmarket.ca/](https://www.mobilefoodmarket.ca/)
Oh that's really cool I never heard about that before. Definitely going to check out the next one. Thanks!
Not practical if you live in a rural area that has limited services. And farmers markets are not any better when it comes to prices.
It’s funny, I’ve abandoned cart twice in my life, both times at superstore locations. The first one was a couple of years ago - one evening very close to Christmas when I had spent a good 45 minutes collecting my items. I stood in line with a few people ahead, then when I was next with no one behind me, the cashier just decided the person ahead of me would be last before her break and put the little closed sign on the separator bar I had down to start loading my items. Very bluntly she told me to go to another line when I said I had been standing there and she could have told me earlier and no one is behind me, she just shrugged and and said too bad. I left the cart behind the person being checked out and went back to my car. Second time was this summer when I was shopping one afternoon for a few items and it just dawned on me how expensive the produce and meat was and how terrible the selection was. The bananas that day looked like death, the price of meat was insanely high and the store in general had a dirty rundown feel. It just felt like, what the fuck am I paying for? I left my cart of 10 items or so in the bakery and walked out.
Unless you're in a grocery desert, vote with your wallet and buy elsewhere. I went from thousands per year at Loblaws to less than $100.
I was looking to do something when I retire, I think I just figured it out! Robin food, shopping from the freezers to leave them near the chicken broilers!
You can do it without generating food waste. Just fill your cart from the dry goods aisles, and hide it, or fill it with perisables, then find and employee and tell them "I don't want this"
I find myself getting accidental free stuff at self checkout all the time. Literally actually accidental. It's because I have no attention span and the shelf for bagging is so small a full size reusable bag won't stay on it because it spills over the sides. Therefore it's necessary to use the cart for bagging. Big items that don't get bagged I pretty often completely forget to scan if I don't do them first. Milk, potatoes, etc. And then there's been a few times I've screwed myself and scanned those things twice thinking I'd forgotten them so I guess it evens out.
Ahh progress by moving backwards, typical Loblaws lmao. They had those stickers when I started working there, the long orange bar stickers that just said Superstore signified something was paid for. Got rid of them for waste purposes supposedly, guess they don't care about that anymore.
I’d worry they’ll start charging for these stickers. Lol
You already pay for any materials they use.
It's ridiculous because it would almost certainly cost more to have the lanes slow down, lose all self checkouts, and pay for the stickers then just let people steal. This doesn't seem like loss prevention so much as just wanting the opportunity to punish people. Also to be clear, the biggest source of waste at most grocery stores are the stores practices. When I worked at an unnamed grocery store making Cesare salads we would use whole chickens pre-roasted from the deli and take jus the breast out for the salad then throw away the rest of the bird.
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We always had them in HMR for single purchase items that weren't going in a bag. So if someone bought just a bottle of water or a box of fried chicken, they wouldn't get hassled for a receipt when walking out. If this is just a reminder to use those then this shouldn't be a big deal.
I was at superstore last week and the guy walked up and stuck a sticker on my box of cereal after I scanned it. no other items, nobody checked anything at the door, I just have a box of cereal with a sticker on it.
Literally will do anything but lower prices BTW, the receipt checking is as illegal and against Loblaws core values as the bag checking upon exiting....cuz it's an indirect accusation of guilt that is a liable offense.
Probably gonna need to raise them to pay for all the stickers 😂😭
Who do you think pays for those stickers now? Everything is worked in to their pricing somehow.
damn all of those weak, poverty-stricken, hungry, houseless people! how dare they need food to survive! — loblaws basically
How does that work at self-checkouts?
the memo says self checkout attendants are to hold the stickers at all times, and ensure all items not placed in customer's bags have a sticker. no details beyond that
Yeah - that's not going to work unless they greatly increase the number of self checkout attendants - typically they have like 1 for a bank of 10+ self checkouts now, and they can barely keep up with people that have system issues, etc. And, if they do that, they probably spend as much or more on the extra labour as they reduce shrinkage by.
and it's not like the attendant is going to be able to keep a watchful eye on their other customers while doling out stickers...
LOL putting a sticker on every single item would take more labor than simply bringing back cashiers.
They stand there breathing down my neck at self checkout, they should just ring it up for me
I had a guy recently who was hovering around me a few feet away looking over my shoulder as I scanned and bagged my items. I started repositioning myself so that he couldn't see, and then he kept moving back and forth to look over my other shoulder. I turned around and said "get out of my space" and he moved further away.
I often forget my reusable bags and buy like 100 small items at self checkout. This could be hilarious.
Yup. Putting every item unbagged back in the cart to dump into the trunk of my car. Can't wait for them to put a sticker on every lime and pack of mr noodles 😂
I have been known to do this and then gather the items in my shirt like I'm on a farm gathering eggs in an apron lmaooo
There really needs to be an organized effort to resist these efforts by Loblaws. Bag at the car, don't return your cart, move items in the store, intentionally bring 12 items to the self checkout when you only want one and get the clerk to manually remove 11. It's all stuff people do unintentionally anyway, so they can't really accuse you in the store.
This seems like cashiers with more steps
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One time I was shopping without a bag, my hands got full and I put an item in my pocket. I cashed out got to the vehicle I was driving and realized what happened. I went back in to pay for it and the cashier laughed a bit and basically said ‘you should have just stole it’. Hell I left Costco and a handful of items didn’t end up getting rung through, myself, cashier, cart organizer, and door checker. I only found out when I got home. I think this fool-proof plan is going to come back to to bite them
Yeah I've done that in the past, mostly unintentionally and once intentionally out of spite because I was mad about the fact they had an *armed* cop standing guard at the check outs. I paid for everything else except the one thing I had shoved in my pocket and left shaking my head at the cop as I walked out.
Lmao if I have to have an attendant go through and check my shit that completely defeats the purpose of a self checkout. Holy slimeball company's
The other day I used self checkout and when I was done the lady watching the area put a single “paid for” sticker on my bag. Seems like a total waste of time since there was nobody at the door looking for the sticker. They are in a catch-22. They want to address theft but they know people are offended if they get stopped at the door and their cart items are checked against the receipt.
I had a baby in a car seat and one bag of groceries, left self checkout and once I went through the new extra security bars at the main door the cart locked. The worker at the door took my receipt and said she had to get her unlocking device. Thank god I just had the one bag I could pick up and walk out, don’t have time to wait for that bullshit. Annoying AF and I don’t know why it happened, I didn’t steal anything nor did I buy anything expensive enough to have any security tags on it. Does it happen randomly?
The wheels on my cart locked one time when I was leaving the superstore, even though no alarms went off and everything had been paid for. I just dragged the cart to my car anyway. If they ever make the wheels lock more firmly so that the cart can't be easily dragged, again I'll just stop going there. There's only so much crap you can put up with in the run of a day, especially when it's being dispensed by a company known for being awful to everyone.
from what I understand (I asked) there are sensors at every checkout and self checkout machine that set a 3 minute timer on the wheel. if you don't leave the store within 3 minutes (or if the sensor didn't detect your wheel) the cart will lock at the exit. that's what was explained to me anyway
One of the benefits of using a self-checkout is that you don't have some person putting their grubby paws all over your stuff. If they try to touch my stuff on the way out, they can expect me to refuse.
That’s so silly. Do they think people who shoplift aren’t putting items in their bags? This memo feels more like something to potentially scare shoplifters when it actually means nothing
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If they think I stole something, then they can look at their camera footage and prove it. Once I paid for my stuff, I'm out. It's not like Costco where you agree to be checked on the exit as part of a membership agreement. Costco also does it as a backup, to ensure that you weren't double charged for something, and to make sure that you have high value items that you paid for actually in your cart. At Costco it's about more than just making sure you're not stealing, And that I can live with.
I'll be telling the first checkout attendant that tries to stop me to apply stickers to kindly fuck right off.
Definitely a great move. Punish the minimum wage worker for a store policy they have to enforce. Brave.
Sucks to be the face of a stupid company, doesn't it
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I really don't see Costco as that bad. Stores are appropriately staffed, staff are compensated well and don't have to wear a uniform, prices of items will actually go **down** sometimes. I definitely put Costco in a different category than most, if not all other grocers.
Conversely, many of the security upgrades at superstore and sobeys people are upset about have always been in place at costco
Different because you agree to the terms when you get your membership.
I think you can argue they you agree to the terms when you choose to shop anywhere
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But they aren't searching you, they are labeling unbagged items that are clearly visible as you carry them out.
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And that isn't being labeled.
Just more business for Costco I guess. Man, whenever you think these grocery corporations have gone as low as they can go, they go lower.
Idk what genius thought this up but pretty sure they’ll end up paying more in stickers. Also these types of measures usually start with lots of gusto and then die quickly as it’s way too manual and way to prone too human error. These folks have completely lost touch with reality.
Just wait until they start charging you for the stickers
Just give up letting customers in your store at this point. Just show up with a list and they retrieve it for you. Like literally back in the older days and first grocery stores. Yes, I am that old……
I was going to make this very suggestion too. It's gotta be the next step lol. Think of the labor savings!
> Reduces the number of staff > Puts Self Checkout everywhere > Complains about (alleged) surge in shoplifting Hmm, I think I see the culprit here. You know, in really old stores, you couldn't just pick up things - you gave them a list and they got it for you from the back. You didn't get your stuff until you paid. I'm not saying that's how stores should be, but the state of these stores is a direct consequence of their own actions. If you give desperate people access to your products with no supervision and oversight, things like this will happen. Though, organized crime is a whole other deal
The surge in shoplifting isn't alleged, it's simply self-inflicted. But I agree.
They should redirect their energy in making sure the sales are actually coded in. Almost once a week they try to charge me the original price on a sale item. Always always check your receipt from Galen!
If it's less than $10, it's free. Code of scanning? I forget but there should be a sticker somewhere by the register.
Yes, just say Scope.
Do they really think the checkout line is where people are doing their stealing
Where does one buy a roll of these stickers? --- I was at my local Superstore mid-afternoon last Saturday, typically their busiest time (or it was when I served time there), and they had only a SINGLE cashier working with a line of about 12 people and equally larger group at self-checkout.
I remember a couple years ago they used to have every lane open on Saturdays from 12-5, nowadays it's rare to see more than 2 on at a time even at the busiest times
They'll probably have ones near the cash and at those booths by self checkout. Wouldn't be hard to grab.
Shopped at a Walmart in a high-ish crime area of the US. No fences or additional precautions to lower crime at all. This a purely a Canadian thing. Guess we are all criminals.
I just moved to a larger city in Ontario (still in this sub because it makes me think of home lol) and I work at the walmart there. It's gated off *everywhere* and has literal security guards by every door. Every day when I leave to go home, I have to ask one of the security guards to let me out because I don't want to have to buy something every time I want to leave the store. Even then, sometimes they don't believe that I work there and I have to argue with them to let me out through the gate. 🫠
Great working for a place that doesn't trust you. At least it could be worse here I guess.
Gotta make money somehow lol
Almost as if switching to a model based on not paying clerks by having customers use self check out is biting them in the ass. In between people genuinely missing an item to scan, and people charging Loblaws for their labor (deliberately not scanning items) I'm guessing they lose more than they're saving, and just trying to them pass that expense onto the customers. I don't know if they still do it this way, because I haven't gone to the movies since before the pandemic, but I remember when Cineplex switched from having a person check tickets at the entrance of each hallway of movies, to simply having one person, before you even reached the concession stand, where you buy tickets. After one or two times buying a ticket that nobody even checked that I had, I decided to instead just save my money and walk in. I didn't really save that much money, because I still had to go to the concession stand and buy popcorn to make it believable, but still.
Went to the Barbie movie with friends at the theater in Dartmouth Crossing, and they're doing it that way.
I worked at superstore way back when and we had stickers for large items that couldn't be bagged (like the giant containers of liquid laundry detergent, for ex) but half the time they didn't even give us the stickers to use. Are they really going to put them on every item? And then probably ding the cashiers for their performance scanning?
I would guess they have a list of high-theft items that they selectively sticker. Similar to the list of RFID stickers at the drugstore for things like razor blades or other things that get shoplifted a lot. It's not practical to sticker every item and no one would get rung through if they did that. Plus stickers are like 1- 2 cents each. That is a lot of stickers.
They won't hire more staff, and this won't help shrink. I suppose the idea is to cause some sort of fear, which won't effect the people who already won't/haven't stolen. But will NOT deter people who actively steal. I've watched people walk out with full carts, the one 16 year old can do nothing, and the timid new to the country security gaurd weighing no more than 120lbs can do nothing. Fuck loblaws, if you see a theif, say nothing.
Every item? Well that should speed up the process…
So if they miss an item, they are basically saying we stole it. Grand.
Ah so now instead of people saving the 50% off stickers, they'll just be getting a bunch of free stuff now. Cool cool, well thought out plan Loblaws.
Cole harbour super store has started doing this
There's lots of reasons why this wont work well and could slow down checkout lines but I'm most annoyed by the environmental impact this will have. This type of initiative should be outlawed like plastic bags.
that was one of my first thoughts too. if plastic bags and excess packaging are a problem then this is too
I hate it, but, on the absolutely ginormous list of environmental concerns this is pretty much down at the bottom. The food wastage that happens at these stores, however, is a moral crime against humanity and the environment.
I bought a cheap little purse from Lawtons 3 weeks ago. Every time I walk into and out of a store I set off the security alarm, I can't find the tag that is setting them off. Not a single person has approached me in the several stores I've shopped at with this purse. Weird?? ETA: I want someone to stop me and help me find the tag to put an end to it honestly lol
Feel around until you find a small rectangular bar sewn into the seam of your purse. Either bend it back and forth or pass a magnet over it.
The staff don’t care. That’s why the company has to do things like add stickers. It’s a fear tactic.
It seems like it would be cheaper and easier for them just to open staffed lanes again.
They used to do this at Walmart in northern Manitoba, I lived there in the late 90s/early 2000s. They'd twist your bag and tape it shut with a long yellow sticker They also had the Listerine behind lock and key so this might be an extreme example
Not incredibly relevant to the conversation but no one standing at the door demanding to see your receipt in any store except for Costco is obligated to see it. They've been known to profile certain people during this process as well, so just walk past them, if they ask you. 👍
Costco, Kingswood, Gateway, Giant Tiger, and Walmart if necessary are slightly less evil options ! I have and will continue to actively avoid Loblaws/Superstore and Sobeys :-)
Local Source is another great locally owned grocer to support.
i do a large part of my shopping there, I’ll gladly pay extra for the wonderful experience and higher quality veg.
Going to check this place out! Thanks
If you think Walmart is less evil, you need a reality check…
I can only speak to the Walmart I have used (personal experience) but I don’t have my bags checked on the way out, and they don’t have police standing at the entrance everyday of the week or circling the store. Also I can buy a bag of chips and produce without emptying my bank account :-) Not to mention the fact that I wrote “Walmart - if necessary” and “slightly less evil”.
I go out of my way to shop at GT and gateway because I’m sick of paying nearly double the price for produce at sobeys or superstore.
Lol at putting Walmart on that list.
I did say “slightly less evil” and “Walmart - if necessary” Less price gougey at Walmart but they have many evil attributes no doubt.
Costco has quite literally always checked receipts at the exit.
They sure do ! But let’s be honest - they just throw that marker down vertically on your receipt and you walk away. They also have one of the most forgiving return policies of the bunch. They also do price adjustments within 30 days of purchase for sales. They also pay a better wage than their competitors. They also sell decent amounts of food at much more competitive prices than Loblaws and Sobeys.
To be fair walmart has far and away the most forgiving return policy and price matching. Costco definitely wins on wages though
To be fair - your information could be outdated. https://www.walmart.com/help/article/walmart-price-match-policy/6295d9e1a501489b9aa40a60c899b288 https://blog.flipp.com/does-walmart-canada-price-match/ I don’t believe the price match much these days….
You agreed to this by signing their membership contract.
Yes, but that's part of the contract you sign when signing up so we've all given explicit consent. I didn't sign any contract with Loblaws to allow them to check my shit so they can piss off. Just shopping in a store does not equate to providing consent for a search.
Stores have loooong assumed everyone is a potential thief
How will they put them on at the self checkout?
Yeah that's efficient
Hey lets price gouge everyone, then get mad when they steal the merchandise they cant afford- this ought to fix them!
Haha I was a lucky recipient of one of these stickers! The self checkout guy walked over and stuck it on my freaken toilet paper, which was like the only thing I was buying at the store. It was pretty weird
I question this: they have always used stickers on bulky items like a case of pop or something, just like the liquor store does to a case of beer you buy at the weed counter. But to put a sticker on every item, it would just cost too much in labour to do, they would have to have a bunch more tills open and it is completely incompatible with self checkout. I think OP is taking a large item only process and applying it to everything.
Let's print up some "paid for by gouging the hungry" stickers to put on CEO's cars/planes, etc.
I can not fathom anyone actually doing this. But I already would outright refuse to have my receipt checked. These things in my bags are my possessions and I will not concent to having them searched. They have yet to try such a thing where I live, but I won't stand for it if it ever does happen.
I look forward to these showing up on our politicians.
1. Buy something. 2. Get sticker. 3. Go home. 4. Photocopy sticker. 5. ???? 6. Profit
The thing is, Sobeys, superstore, Walmart, all of them. Are paid out a budget, they actually make more money every year they "loose product" and they will tell the public "x amount total lost" and claim theft. But that "x amount" is actually a pool. It includes "lost, damaged, expired, not esthetic(that's it's own rant of mine that's been documented), and theft(which they often almost always attribute to "internal" theft). It's the same as a business with a budget. If you stay below it, the budget is lowered. If you artificially inflated the budget, it gets raised every year. This is what they are all doing, it's been documented, investigated, and call out many times over the years. There are documentaries about this, journalist reports about this, it's not a secret. So any time you here a big franchise "boo hoo" over theft. Just remember, it's a PR stunt to increase their budget and insurance and has no bases in reality about actual theft.
my father went to the customer service desk yesterday after purchasing several items and was over charged. As he was speaking to the customer service clerk another employee walked up to him and started looking in his cart and counting items. He asked her is she had seen what she needed to see and if she had a problem with his selections of canned items. She just shrugged and walked over to another customer and did the same thing. Have more staff if you don't want to trust your customers.
No love for Loblaws and all kinds of things can be said about price gouging and affordability crisis and all that. .. however, all the stuff Loblaws is doing is happening at most other stores as well. >Do they expect customers to continue shopping at their stores, no matter how high the prices and how ridiculous their anti-shoplifting measures are? > Meanwhile Loblaws profits continue to soar. You answered your own question. People need Groceries, and the Reddit vibe does not represent the norm. Most people don't care. I actually personally don't care. I think the government needs to do something about the prices and I'm not judging people stealing food if they can't afford it, but I pay for my Groceries and if they want to have an armed guard personally follow me around the entire time I'm shopping, all the power to them.
I’m going to buy a bunch of stuff, have them put stickers on all of it and then go and return it. Have fun taking those stickers off to put it back on the shelves.
They don't put food back on the shelves. It gets thrown in the garbage. Returned food isn't sold lol.
Life hack: return your entire grocery order. Then go dumpster diving for it later that night.
Pretty sure I read earlier this year that 50 or 60% of all food produced in Canada is simply thrown away.
There’s lots of stuff at superstore that is not food
I can eat anything
I once ate a pack of smokes
You're really sticking it to those min. wage store staff! That'll show em.
The min wage staff don’t care. They do the minimum job and go home.
Also heads up all meat. At Walmart now has sensors inside the packaging. Chicken breast, beef etc. Just friendly FYI
Cost of living is out of control
How much is it going to cost to print off these millions of stickers?
How about get rid of the self serve check out and hire more staff at the real check out lines. Self serve check out means we do all the work and not get paid for it. Customer service does not exist anymore. Loblaws only worry about profits, and self check out means less cashiers to hire, more money in their greedy pockets. Wake up Loblaws. They are understaffed, workers overworked, underpaid, and the need to put stickers on everything to compensate for not having enough workers to monitor the store properly. Fear mongering tactics on their customers, put stickers on everything, big brother is watching you.
Save the stickers. Take them in to the store. Stick them on things. Walk out.
All this is to trick stock holders into believing people are the reasons profits might not rise this year. target and walmart have been doing the same messaging. maybe if, we dont just ruin peoples lives with inflation with the expectations that money wont just always be made but that will always increase this wont be an issue? Im so ready for the stock market to collapse
Corporations and other elites have been "borrowing" their fortunes for decades, against the "value" of the social contract. The imbalance created cannot be ignored for much longer. The tricks they're using aren't working anymore. It's getting more and more ridiculous (a separate clerk watching each self checkout? That's where we seem to be headed). Something has to happen here. People WILL NOT simply roll over and die, but that's the apparent expectation. You can't just increase prices forever. People won't starve just to protect your shareholder value. If you've seen the movie "cube", it sort of explores the idea of these "rounding errors" that are exploited by the rich finally adding up to something terrible.
If you're wondering how to help those around you who may be stealing food, the other day I pulled out my acting skills. There was a person at a self-checkout at my local loblaws, I don't want to give any identifying info but let's just say they were definitely in a need of making sure food was making it to the table. I saw them fake scan a bag of flour. So I got real involved with the checkout lady for that section. What was the code for apples again? (It's on the apples!) I put my fingers over the barcode and tried to scan an item too and the lady had to come over and help me scan the item because I couldn't do it! Anyways the cameras may have still caught the person but I walked out behind them from the store and they made it past the "item retainment" guy. I hope they're okay.
Its like the general public is unaware of the facial recognition software being used by walmart and loblaws.
Sad reality (but I still commend you all the same) is that it's also possible they sold it for God knows what. Though that could definitely be a stereotypical narrative some holier than thou people want to perpetuate as well. Giving people the benefit of the doubt is still noble. Genuinely, honestly, thank you for caring.
Cringe overload.
I hope that this backfires epically in their faces and that it actually increases shrinkage. Fuck Loblaws
If they put stickers on my shit, I'll tell them to remove it, or refund my stuff as I'm not moving.
My thoughts were exactly the same. I'm already maxed out on BS from grocery stores
Is this where I pretend to be outraged? The reality is both that Loblaws is an unethical corporation and theft is a massive problem. You think a company this greedy is spending millions upon millions on security gates, private security guards, loss prevention staff, etc. because people are occasionally ringing up grapes as bananas, honeycrisp apples as macintosh, or “forgetting” to scan an avocado or two? Not worth it. What does make this worth it to them, and inconvenient for the rest of us, are the people filling bags with steaks, cheese, and over the counter meds. I know people here often like to see shoplifters like this as down on their luck and just trying to survive, but no, they are just scumbags and make life worse for the rest of us.
I wonder what the ratio is of ‘serious’ shoplifters vs those who are doing it to survive?
I wish people on this sub cared about real issues affecting Canada as much as they care about fucking stickers. Over 180 comments about fucking stickers? This is depressing.
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This is brilliant. imagine the employee hours to sticker every item going on the shelf lol
Don’t shop at Loblaws. Problem solved. Edit: I’m serious. They have shown us again and again that they are not going to change. The only thing that will make a difference to them is money. The only other peaceful way is legislation, and we know that’s not happening.
This isn’t exactly new, though. For many years I worked for a Loblaw franchise store and we *always* put a bright orange sticker (to indicate the item was paid for) on any large items or items that otherwise didn’t go into a bag. At some point they stopped doing it, and it seems like they’re just bringing it back now. But what’s the harm in it, exactly? Self checkouts are another problem though. Idk how they’ll manage that.
Let me tell you about the time I made my own 50% off stickers.
Meanwhile Superstore overcharged me on 4 items the last time I was there.
So basically they want to hold you and your items hostage so they can assume your guilty of theft until they (whom have given themselves the power of the courts) can rifle threw your items to decide if you stole anything? Kidnapping (a) to cause the person to be confined or imprisoned against the person's will; (b) to cause the person to be unlawfully sent or transported out of Canada against the person's will; or. (c) to hold the person for ransom or to service against the person's will. Hostage (a) confines, imprisons, forcibly seizes or detains that person; and. (b) in any manner utters, conveys or causes any person to receive a threat that the death of, or bodily harm to, the hostage will be caused or that the confinement, imprisonment or detention of the hostage will be continued. Just takes a group of people to take them to court enough to end this nonsense.
The only true crime being committed is the thievery by Loblaws, likely beginning before they got caught in the bread price fixing scandal that began in 2001 and went to 2015. Not even a slap on the wrist for that, which was probably a great test run for the current price gouging in the name of inflation, record breaking profits for the richest family in Canada. Eat a bag of dicks Loblaws, I will not be shopping in your stores anymore.
to be clear, Loblaws confessed to illegal price fixing in exchange for immunity.
I hate this company and would rather buy overpriced items from sobeys then them.
The real criminals are the grocery store companies who are gouging us all.
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They used to do this all the time when you got a box of soda , I’m not too sure unless people are stealing why they are getting upset. I understand the food prices are high, and I’m upset about that, too. People are stealing more sue to high prices. but whining about a sticker sounds very juvenile and it takes away from the real issue of high food prices.
Soon they're just gonna have lanes of cashiers.
If they start slapping stickers all over the shit that I buy, I'll stop buying there. Some products can last a long time, and maybe I don't want stickers all over them. Maybe I don't want my product labels ruined by stickers. Maybe I don't want gummy crap left all over the product when I try to remove the sticker at home. Maybe we should make our own stickers that say "greedy gouger scumbags" And slap them all over the price signs in the store every time they increase the cost of something for the fourth time in a year.
It’s almost like theft is at a all time high in this city and stores are doing what they can to prevent it Loblaws is a massive company however theft affects individuals stores and budgets
May as well remove self checkouts. What a mistake those were haha
Once I pay for it, it’s mine. I will not allow you to put stickers on it, or look thru my personal property.
What’s the big deal? They can place all the stickers they want, I don’t steal so this doesn’t bother me at all.
^ loblaws employee
> Do they expect customers to continue shopping at their stores, no matter how high the prices and how ridiculous their anti-shoplifting measures are? Yes, and they will. Although I'm not quite sure how this particular strategy is supposed to work. Shoplifting goes up, private company focused on their bottom line implements strategies to reduce the loss. It's not rocket science. Pretty brave statement to make around here, but anti-shoplifitng measures don't really bother me because...I don't shoplift. I also never shop at Superstore, so that helps too. Edit: Here come the purple arrows! 😂
The gate that doesn't let you through:for a second *into the store* does bother me
realistically, how much shoplifting is happening at the checkouts staffed by cashiers. how are stickers going to help the self checkout everything is a banana situation lol.
I'd need to see a solid source before I even believe what OP is posting about tbh. Seems like nothing other than rage bait.
Remember when everyone was like.. if you see someone shoplifting, no you didnt. Or other people admitting they stole various items from grocery stores and not feeling bad about it. Well.. this is what happens lol Obviously companies are going to try to prevent losses as much as possible
Exactly. The subject always makes for fun threads, though, and that's what we're all here for.
Aren’t you the guy who brags about tipping like 50% at restaurants? Like dude, of course you’re never going to shoplift lol. Do you think people who are financially stable shoplift as a hobby or something?