🔒 More And More Supermarkets Are Locking Up Items

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation. That's really a story about the
cost of shoplifting in the States. Five hundred million dollars
in profit from Target. That's so much Target in America.
Target in America is different to Target Australia. If you
look at social media all these memes about women going
off to shop at Target. It's different. They're very different entities.
But five hundred million dollars is lost every year to shoplifting.

(00:26):
It's amazing, isn't it. But what's happened with shops now
in places like Walmart and Target is all the items
are locked up. I saw this when I went to
New York with Jack and Liam in January, and I
just want to go to a chemist. I think we
want Walgreens or something to get some headache tablets. And

(00:48):
nothing is on display. Everything is behind these glass cases.
And took me ages to work o what was happening.
You have to go to the end of the aisle,
press a buzzer and a gawmless shop assistant finally comes
out with a whole set of keys that you're trying
to get into a prison. Undoes the flap. You take

(01:08):
out what you want and they lock it straight up.
There's no browsing, there's no picking up different packets and
looking at the brands or any of that. You take
it out and they lock it straight up again, and
then they walk off and you're left with it in
your hand. There's no oh, is this the one I want?
There's none of that. It's really confronting. Makes it America.
They can't really stop them because you might get shot. Well,

(01:29):
what they're saying here is that a leading consumer expert said,
we can't rule out that it won't happen here because
often we follow America with our security measures. While Australia
may not have reached the same level of overtness in
terms of locking up merchandise, they're saying, it's clear that
retailers are grappling with similar challenges, and so the higher
priced items like fragrances, watches and jewelry, electronics are behind

(01:51):
glass cabinets. But we may you know, it may not
be far far till the underwear everything is behind place.
I was in Canada and they had their metamucile locked
up the musil and it was cheap, very cheap. And
then did they come and get that up for you?
And saying so you'd like the toilet paper. I said,
I can wait here all day. They said, I don't

(02:11):
think you can quick breast of Once they get the
mule enom me though, it'll be a different kettle fish.
It was very binding. Canadians they eat a lot of bread,
A lot of bread and pootine. What is that? That's
the chips and the cheese curd and the gravy. Best
thing you've ever eaten? Cheese curd. Cheese curds so good?

(02:33):
What is cheese curd? I don't know. It's just it's
melty cheese, but not glumpy cheese. Melty cheese, but it's stasty.
So that's put on hot chips with what else on top?
And gravy? That does sound? My god? Is that what
pootine is? That's what pootine is. I just thought it
was a genital run. That's what I stayed away from
ordering it. I was standing there bollocking naked. Where's my

(02:58):
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