‘Our regular customers are getting in on it’: shoplifting on the rise in supermarkets

2023-04-24 07:23:18

It was ten days ago. Delilah (names have been changed), the manager of a Franprix in the north of Paris, sees a young man leaving the store, his shopping bag apparently full. Taken by a doubt, Dalila stops him, checks his shopping bag and discovers a myriad of yogurts, meats, household cleaners, compotes, alcohols and other scrapers, all picked from the shelves of his supermarket. “In fact, he had just done his fill of shopping, but without paying it! This manager is still surprised, all the more taken aback that the student persisted in denying it, even though she had shown him the CCTV images.