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[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Increase in rent prices, in loans, increase in costs of electricity, services - and of course food. Not to mention shrinkflation, cutting out nutrition and putting in more filler, etc.

And so the grosser monopolies woke up to smell their own coffee and make cashiers glorified security guards - without the benefit of added pay.

They screw us in any way, shape or form they can.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cashiers are rarely permitted to do anything about shoplifting for what it's worth. When they do (and why you would I don't know) they often get disciplined or fired. And the labelled as jobsworths by the gutter press when they follow "company procedure".

It's basically the breakdown of the social contract, as engineered by a small group of people and then blamed on the rest of us.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

My sister onetime just snatched a shoplifter's bag

Don't know why you'd even bother, she was working for a well established chain

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They killed off a lot of independent bakeries, so fuck Greggs.

[–] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah it was super disappointing living in the UK and all the coffee shops and bakeries within walking distance were these crap chains. Often across the street from each other

[–] 098qwelkjzxc@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Greggs sausage rolls are shite

I still wait in line d for an actual person. I feel so insulted when I'm forced to use the machine and it's constantly yelling to put the item here or did i use any bags like, bitch you have a camera on me the whole time! You yelled about my bags because they where not an item i scanned how the fuck are you now asking me if i used any bags. Fuck the machines.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

People solved this problem some time back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

An automat is a fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine, typically without waitstaff.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

What, and pay for a) some new machines, b) people to maintain them? Get wrecked. (Not that I'm a cynic).