Supermarket chain forced to put lamb and even cheese in anti-theft security boxes

DailyMail ^ | 22 November 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Daffynition]

Cheese and meat joints have been locked away in security-sealed boxes by a crime-hit supermarket in a bid to thwart hungry thieves.

Crime-hit supermarket chain Iceland has resorted to using the 'lamb saver boxes', normally used to protect more expensive goods such as CDs, games and DVDs, which trigger an alarm if a shoplifter attempts to leave the store with meat products without paying.

The security tactic has been employed in hundreds of the chain's stores across the UK.

Checkout assistants at the stores have told customers the supermarket chain also plans to fix security tags to its cheese - or lock the dairy goods away from reach.

Iceland bosses said they had been forced into the 'defence mechanisms' to stop a growing number of hungry thieves pinching its stock.

But customers hit out at the precaution, while food charities interpreted the measure as 'inevitable' with many families struggling to make ends meet.

[Eaker]

It tastes like a warm, wet sweater.

I find it quite difficult to conceptualize a food's taste based upon a description.

I congratulate you as your post really spells it out.

No lamb for me!

[William Tell]

bgill said: "For the past several months at our grocery store, whole chickens have been around 77 - 88 cents a pound."

I'm here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia. I think you are in Texas. That may well explain some of the difference.

Due to the liberal agenda here, I pay over $.20 per kilowatt-hour for electricity. My daughter in Oregon pays about 5 cents.

Do you have a room you want to rent out?

[bgill]

I’m paying about 12 cents.

It does seem like you need to relocate. Between the libs moving south and the illegals moving north, Texas isn’t what it used to be.