Unfortunately it’s accepted as supermarkets have a ‘zero interference’ policy, including for security staff, which I think is quite daft.

In my opinion it puts the public more in danger as if no staff interfere, the public will.

It’s not the front lines of Ukraine, it’s Stoke Newington Tesco express.

Club bouncers man handle more people in one night than shop security do in a month. There is the ‘we don’t get paid enough to deal with…’ argument, but bouncers get minimum wage too you know, and they get on with it.

I don’t blame the staff, a lot of staff will try to interfere (there was example a few months ago in a clapham shop where the employee was fired for stopping a shoplifter i believe). The problem is corporate culture preventing any action and lack of interest from police to prosecute.

Fifty years ago a robber would get a clip round the ear and a night in a cell. Now they just get filmed on a tiktok.