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Coles Stores Shoplifter’s Delight
April 28, 2009, 7:30 am
Filed under: National News, State and Local News

Coles stores across Australia are rolling out a ‘no bags check’ policy this month, a bid to appear more ‘customer friendly’.

Workers will not be able to check customer’s bags in the store, or when they leave the store, regardless of shoplifting suspicions.

Coles Fairfield manager, Peter Johnston says: “We are trialling a new system of plain clothes loss recovery officers monitoring stores, as well as security scanners at the front of stores.”

But one employee has already questioned the policy, saying: “Short of walking out with a trolley full of goods, you could pretty much steal anything from our stores. Only DVD’s and batteries have the metal reactor tags which activate the scanner alarms”.

 

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