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This is the best summary I could come up with:
“We are seeing it in every store and every category, it’s a real challenge,” Coles chief operating officer Matt Swindells told 3AW radio station last week.
Brad Banducci, CEO of Woolworths, told ABC Radio National there has been a “dramatic rise” of stock loss at his stores, including theft.
Both supermarkets have started rolling out a suite of new high-tech security measures to crack down on five-finger discounts, including installing facial recognition technology at self-service checkouts and fitting trolleys with sensors that can track when a person hasn’t exited through a checkout area, or hasn’t paid for their products, and lock the wheels.
It’s even harder to feel sympathy for them knowing that while they complain about having their goods stolen, they – along with other supermarket chains – continue to throw out vast volumes of stock.
Dumped into the other bins were bananas, oranges, mandarins, avocados, tomatoes, punnets of apples, eggplants, organic green beans, bundles of asparagus, green capsicums, 2kg bags of washed potatoes, mushrooms, various fancy cheeses, 5kg packets of basmati rice, muesli bars, cartons of a dozen eggs, tubs of yoghurt and long-life milk – all in edible condition.
If Australia’s two major supermarkets really want to be responsible corporate citizens, they should start investing some of their record profits into preventing food waste in the first place, instead of spending it on greenwashing tactics and invasive security measures to target petty theft.
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