‘Shoplifting Is Contributing To The Decline Of The UK High Street’
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2023
- The boss of John Lewis has called for a royal commission into Britain’s high streets, which she said risk becoming “looting grounds” for crime and overrun with vacant shops.
Dame Sharon White, chairwoman of the John Lewis Partnership, which also owns Waitrose, said some UK towns and cities have become “shells of their former selves”.
TalkTV’s Alex Phillips enquires about the reasons behind an uptick in these ‘low level’ crimes.
Emma Revell blames the lack of police investigation and imprisonment as the leading cause of soaring retail crimes.
#talktv #talkradio #highstreet #shoplifting #uk
How would you save the high street?
Can we not house Illegals in the high street!
Let people park their car.
Put Bobby’s back onto the street where they can actively engage with the community and not dancing to the Macarena, but catching criminals… there’s a thought. Don’t slap people on the wrist be harsh on criminals and give the people there safety back. Reward civilians for intervening rather then charge them for assault for stopping a yob shoplifting. Citizens arrest has gone! Justice gone! Policing gone and replaced with cameras which are about as useful for us as a chocolate teapot.
It’s actually an easy one, if you have the balls and not woke.
I wouldn't save it. Retail parks are better in my view. There's free parking for those that drive. Nearer for lots of people than having to travel to a city centre. Supermarkets sell decent clothes, some have pharmacies and cafes. People are busy and one stop shopping is better than trawling around a busy city.
Treat shoplifting as a crime.
This is what happens when you criminalise the smacking of misbehaving children
Totally agree!
The shops here in Bulgaria seem to be thriving, and we have lots of Turkish barbers too. Cafe culture is thriving, no one sleeps in shop doorways, we don't have food banks and the streets are safe to walk at night.
Britain isn't just broken. It is doomed.
Britain is migrant Disneyland, trouble is! some are shocked that ALL of these migrants are not all going to be good honest people.
They do come here via the black market ''rubber boats'' across the Channel discarding paperwork for a good reason.
The UK's weakness has been found out and is now being exploited on a level never seen before.
Yeah, Bulgaria is so good 😂😂😂
Yet you are the fastest dying nation and your people run and settle in the Western Hemisphere. Bulgaria is a poor sithole.
Interesting that I can read replies to other comments but not to my own.
WTF?😡🤬
@@helmethead72 I received a warning from RUclips last week, had two now.
@@G4RY1159 You've clearly had too much to think, Gary.
It's not the shoplifters, its the gutless policy of allowing the thieves to get away with it, give retail staff a big stick and the legal rights to crack a scull or 2, the thieving towrags will soon give up
Agree. Retail staff are told not to get involved in case they are assaulted which is fair enough. However, shoplifters have an open market now, especially if they are not phased by being arrested. Police are told to record crime and then get rid as soon as possible, it's all about Home Office statistics.....
3rd world here we come. Buckle up lads
We have been here for about 13 years dude wake up.
Banana monarchy Britain💩👑🇬🇧
I've worked in retail and shop lifters can get away with anything 😂 they just get banned from the shop when caught.
People just go to self checkout scan 1 thing and walk out 😂
Its not only shoplifting. Its actual looting
Joe Biden and America is telling us what to do. If America do it, we have to do it. It's pathetic.
Rather than a Royal Commission to investigate the downfall of the high street perhaps we should have more Police to investigate shoplifting? There is an epidemic of shoplifting from high street stores, why on earth would this business not want to move to shopping online?
Haft the shope candy etc are money laudering
All by design 🙈
In my local area there is a big Tesco & Asda they only have 1 security guard standing at the front door. How’s 1 person going to stop people stealing.
My local tesco has a loss budget of £20,000 grand a year so as long as they come under that there is no point in fixing it.
High streets have been dead for decades.
My home town had everything you could imagine pre 2000, now it’s charity shops , Turkish barbers and betting shops.
Even a fairly large Tesco left 5 years ago, and a burger king shut down.
It’s more to do with the astronomical absurd business rates shops face.
Add on pay and display parking (who carries change on them 🤷🏻♀️)
Bottom line is, it’s all policy that’s done this. This is just the final nail
@@malsingh1576 Teresa mays constituency.
Maidenhead.
However travel up the road to Bracknell, totally different story. What Maidenhead should of been/become.
Political corruption and greed ruined my hometown.
houses go for £600k 🤦🏻♀️and you got a holiday inn full of boat people and “affordable” towering flats blocking out any sunshine in the town.
They’re also hideously ugly flats. Absolute eyesore.
A Wetherspoons also closed few years back.
Place is just an extension of slough now. It’s No longer an English town.
Schools all look like prisons too.
Nobody wants to stick their head above the parapet and point the finger at the largest culprit groups because if they are politicians it would be the ruin of their career and if it were a journalist or broadcaster it would see them cancelled. There is simply no shame in some communities for acting like feral vermin and looting & shoplifting. Just look at the culprits, they are 99% the usual suspects but nobody will say so, we are too scared/too polite to point it out.
They're untouchable I'm afraid.
You will invite too many black looks.
Exactly. So really we deserve what we get
.....what you mean 'black' people?
@@Punisher1991UK ......99% black unless I'm colour blind.
Remember, Diversity is our strength.
Eastern European shops and kurdish barbers abounds thanks Tony Blair 👍 😊
Don't forget the plethora of Kebab/Fried Chicken take-aways.
Well if Eastern European and kurd can make it work it means British people are the actual problem
Could it be Diversity at fault? just asking for a friend.......
Yes; you should know that your nation is going down the pan when "American Candy" is supposed to save the day!
Ulez has already destroyed what was left of high street after this government screwed it
Shoplifting increasing in line with immigration?? Hmmm, call me a cynic but the stats are the stats.
Possible career option and work experience in nicking to order by idle newcomers.
The elderly population is also increasing…..😬😵💫
@@citizenjosie714 Yes but they've contributed to British society and don't tend to think they can take what they want when they want.
@@SimonWeston-en6sk good valid reason.. 👍
Well let’s see why are people resorting to shoplifting, could it be all our moneys going to everybody else but it’s own citizens- expect more activity
Isn't this the plan though? Track you all online with your purchases. Removing cash as per the agenda. Nowt to do with shoplifting. All to do with behavioural change.
A true entreprenuer would ask the shopper, "Wot you after", Wait there, i can deliver that for half price. Then introduce a click and collect service.
The decline in the high street is nothing to do with Shoplifting but more to do with:
a) councils with expensive parking prices
b) consumers spending habits changing(buying online, cutting back in a cost of living crises, etc)
c) shops not evolving enough, same stock most if not all the time, to expensive products etc
d) then shoplifting possibly
Import the third world become the third world, never any excuse to steal from others, your excuse making is pathetic, look at who's doing the stealing, wasn't a problem before we imported millions of immigrants.
Keep dreaming. America are telling us what to do. If it happens there is must happen here to. This has been happening to America on a huge scale in recent months. Jo Biden is pulling the strings
The high street was finished year's ago out of town retail park's and Amazon .
@@pip1723 yes agree but Covid increased the rate of decline at a faster rate than it was going. My local town centre is now being filled with low cost foreign shops.
.....and an influx of thousands of foreigners.
Here in Manchester the main shopping street is always busy. Don't see many shops closing. Not seen any mizzy types.
Scary scary stuff. Not fair on people working there. I use work in Oxford street years ago. That's a shame!.
I blame importing violent criminals & the courts refusal to JAILshoplifters!
You should come up here in Stoke-on-trent or Hanley city center. It's literaly like a waste land inhabited by Monkey Dust users.
Those American candy stores are money laundering joints.
Yes , same as the Turkish barbers , take aways and car washes
I use 2 shoplift myself, but ironically I stopped just as the problem got huge...............living in UK is too expensive and there's no worthwhile employment - nuff said
Stop penalising motorists, stop charging for parking . It’s a start !
They shoplift because there are no consequences for their actions.
I worked all my life until I retired in food retail,and have seen the whole thing go from bad to worse in relation to shoplifting.
Shoplifting is theft and should be enforced with the law.
Over the years in retail I have been hit,spat at,kicked hit with a bottle attacked with a needle the list goes on !!!
I am glad that I have now retired and no longer in that environment.
The Police needs ,no must do something about this because it will only get worse.
We need more Turkish barbers ....
And chicken shops
@Punisher1991UK same with some subways who also use turkey ham
@Punisher1991UK I stopped eating them about 5 years ago, once I discovered they only sold turkey ham in several shops
Turkish barber's abuse you 😂 my old manager used to go to one and he said its brutal
Shoplifting is wrong. I don't condone it but what did our pathetic UK government expect.
Food prices etc have risen! How about lowering prices of products.
Order online quality poor when supermarkets eventually close where do we get our food ?
Ration box delivered by drone 😂
I’ve seen those WEF vids.
We have security cameras on our front porch, to detect Porch Pirates, & we try to be home, when we are expecting a delivery.
Don't blame the shoplifters, blame the causes of shoplifting - cost of living, high interest rates, Brexit, impotent police force, etc. - all landing at the doorstep of the worst government in British history.
What's brexit got to do with thieving.?
No it’s greedy , entitled bastards sealing for greed not need .
Why don't all these shops do what Argos does, simple.
If your children were hungry, would you beg borrow and steal to feed them?
I buy one item only from each shop, getting a receipt each time
Save high street, by turning them all into "order on line, & deliver," businesses. This way the customer pays first, on line, or they get nothing, & lock your door, after each employee, enters the business. This would avoid pick pockets, & bag snatchers, as well.
Need to stop having high value goods such as expensive spirits, Champagne, vapes etc on the shop floor where it is easy for people to steal them.
As others have said, there needs to be adequate parking for people and shop rents need to be looked into.
Perhaps these people live in hotels?
Shops are literally on your doorstep. Incorrect usage of literally.
'Ransacking Primark' 😭😭💀💀💀💀💀
whole stores empty of shoppers one of the reason why is they're not selling anything people want to buy anymore, its cheap third world tat at inflated prices ... and when it gets nicked it probably does the Corp a favour re insurance
Who the fk is robbing from Primark 😅
I thought the same but recently found out a girl I know steals pants from there 😢
Not cause she can’t afford it , just doesn’t want to pay the few quid.
Will spend £15 on a Wagamamas or a coffee though 🤷🏻♀️
Primark has become a fashionable brand nowadays, hasn't it.
American candy is the good kind. It's crunchier, than rich, butter, careful to take small bites, British candy, or it chokes.
Shutting down for over 2 years is the real reason
Wtf are you talking about there's not even been a lockdown in 2ish years xD
@@a.m.gnovember151 2 years of kids not being able to socialise properly, lack of education and parents not giving a fuck all adds up.
More quality journalism from woke tv, the internet existing for decades is responsible for the decline of bricks and mortar businesses on the high street, if you had a business if you could get out of paying business rates and make more profits online you would.
Young nation pray on drugs what you expect from them crime crime crime
Oop barbers so sorry, bring back decent people, theres not many working as we seem to go in a recession again.
The UK High Street has been in decline for ages because of online shopping.. I don't think shoplifting is playing that big a part of things...
Maybe if Tories made Amazon pay their tax? Oh fucking duh only the poors have to pay tax. My bad
lol
Is this piece of news paid by John Lewis?
Good old migrants there doing no harm bit of shoplifting leave them alone
Oh, so it's the migrants doing the shoplifting is it? I suppose they're also responsible for the government wasting £80 billion of tax-payers money on useless PPE and fraudulent deals over the last three years ... and if you voted for Brexit, then you personally have cost our country $56,000 - I'd call that a form of theft (by stupidity).
I guarantee you that the vast majority of shoplifters in this country are straight, white morons.
@@a.m.gnovember151 No. Blacks mostly.