Brother banned, just a Q.
Sorry for invading your Reddit thread but I had a question that I wanted answering.
Brother has been done for shoplifting yesterday. Scanned and paid for a bag of shopping, but didn’t (he claims mistakenly) pay for some bits at the end of trolley (Crate of diet cokes and some other soft drinks) He was confronted by some undercover security and issued a blanket store ban. I obviously completely understand Sainsbury’s are within their rights to do this as it’s private property and he claims others were also being done at the same time as him. He works away in the week so uses this specific Sainsbury’s but I can’t help be feeling that this ban would be incredibly hard to enforce nationwide.
He claims he hasn’t done it before and obviously theft is theft but he might not be telling me the whole story and of course, he might’ve done this numerous times. But I feel he just got busted because of some store detectives being present at the time. Having some experience with guys like through my work, I know they can be a little heavy handed, although my brother said they were super professional
The point is, I’m incredibly sceptical a company like Sainsbury’s are able to enforce this nation wide. The facial technology thing is fair enough, but I know even this is highly costly and is unlikely to ping out in real time. I’ve obviously told him to avoid for now and I know it’s trespassing if he goes back to a store. How are they enforcing this in a store up north where we are from? Feels more like a deterrent and they can use a ban to escalate in the future.