Video: Supermarkets: in the UK, attacks on employees increased by 140%
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
It is alarm in the supermarkets in Great Britain: here the assaults on employees I'm increased 140% due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
There is talk of something like more than 200 thousand cases in the course of 2020, including violent, non-violent attacks or attempts at shoplifting. It seems that during the pandemic the aggression of people to supermarket clerks has increased significantly.
A saleswoman told the Telegraph that store employees are facing unprecedented levels of violence just because they do their jobs. In fact, they are threatened for even just asking customers to respect social distancing.
Others were punched or attacked with axes. And again: a clerk was hospitalized with broken ribs and a punctured lung after being beaten up by three shoplifters over a few-pound bottle of liquor. And how can we forget that UK grocery store that was destroyed by a customer who didn't want to wear a mask?
And he reiterates: the problem is not related to a single cooperative or to a specific retailer, it is a problem for the whole society.
According to what has been revealed by Usdaw, the British union of retail workers, the main cause of the attacks is the request to respect social distancing. In addition, one in ten salesman admitted to having been attacked, more than half were threatened and 90% still received insults.
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