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Chocolate bars are being locked in plastic boxes in some UK shops as retailers and police forces warn thieves are stealing them to order.

Sainsbury's said it had begun using "boxes on products which are regularly targeted", with £2.60 bars of Cadbury Dairy Milk locked up in one London branch.

Chocolate was more recently being "sold on by criminals and is now being targeted more frequently by prolific offenders," according to the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS).

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

They're selling them to people who can't afford to buy them at the actual stores for full price. Essentially a service where you pay someone to take on the risk of stealing for you, plus a sort of grocery UberEats.

Where there's demand, there's supply, the people who do the supply part looks like learning to code hasn't worked out for them so good, nor has our society in general. People who do the demand part, they're just poor.

There's a vice documentary about this and from the people shown it's pretty clear that they're not going through all the hassle of this because they have such easy lavish lives.

[–] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago

They often get flogged in pubs around where I am, I absolutely have never ever bought Pringles off a guy for £1 a tube rather than the ripoff £3.50 they retail at.