Greggs shifts food behind counters to stop shoplifting

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Greggs shifts food behind counters to stop shoplifting

Greggs will move its self-serve food and drinks to behind the counter to stamp out shoplifting at the High Street bakery.

The company is trialling the measure at a handful of stores which, it said, are “exposed to higher levels of anti-social behaviour”.

These include Whitechapel in east London which is one of five shops that will try out the new policy – the others are in Peckham and Ilford.

It is not expected that the change will be implemented across all Greggs’ 2,600 bakeries in the ***, but it may be rolled out to sites where there are high levels of theft.

In 2024, shoplifting offences recorded by the police rose by 20% to 516,971, according the Office for National Statistics.

But the number of thefts recorded by retailers was far higher – for the year to last September shops saw a 3.7 million rise to 20.4 million.

Greggs said customers can expect to see its full range behind its counters but added: “The safety of our colleagues and customers remains our number one priority.”

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