Your Friendly Neighbourhood Store

[poliphilo]

 You enter Sainsbury's through an automatic gate with a blue arrow. It swings to behind you and you see a no-exit symbol on the reverse. If you try to slip out the same way, taking advantage of someone else's entrance, a loud klaxon goes off- as if to say "Stop thief! Stop thief! Stop thief!

Comments

[qatsi]

It's a high-volume, low-margin business. They are paranoid about "shrinkage" (the euphemistic term for shoplifting, but I suppose it also covers potential insider theft). I would imagine individual stores are monitored carefully for it. There was an "away day" at work a month or so ago and whilst most of it was a simple waste of time, the testimonials from in-store staff about the difficulties some people face and the issues that raises were genuinely depressing.