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The huge stroller scales being tested by Tesco have caused a mixed reaction with the concerns that “honest buyers” are “treated as thieves”.

The trolleys are weighed before making those using scan as you shop (says) to make sure that weight is the same as scanned elements.

Three of the checkouts were installed at the Tesco store in Gateshead, while the system says it was launched in a selected issue of stores in the UK.

However, some buyers believed that checkouts showed more security for the airport, with a person stressing that they are similar to Epasssport gates.

The business retail consultant, Ged Futter, believes that the measures have been brought to approach the increase of the purchase levels and reduce the personal costs, not to make the checkout system faster.

In a warning to Tesco, he said that if buyers are “treated as thieves, they will go elsewhere.”

“Forget that trust is the most important thing for all traders and works in both directions. If customers do not feel reliable or think they are treated as thieves, they will go elsewhere, ”he said BBC.

The retailer professor, Emmeline Taylor, added that the scales were “quite predictive and reminiscent of security scanners.”

“They do not want to give the impression that it is turning their finger to their honest customer,” she said.

Reddit users agreed and joked that scanners were similar to airport security checks.

– I’m at Border Control or Tesco? asked a user. Another said: “Come shopping, stay for the full body scan! Wtf. ‘

– Are these gates for the new Heathrow track? The third one asked.

“TSA TSA TSESCO administration,” someone else said. In the meantime, another added: “Better prepare the Tesco passport.”

Others were also skeptical about how precise the large scales for smaller items would be and if the new technology would work efficiently.

“(Who) knows how this will work when it should be sensitive enough to work for similar birth cards and also have enough variation for different bags that people use, clothing, product weight, etc., said someone.

Some of those who are not passionate about development have questioned the accessibility and effectiveness of the new “crazy” checks.

“The floor scale will cause headaches. Especially since the supermarkets are not too good when calibrating the scale, ”wrote a buyer.

“It hardly seems accessible to the wheelchair. Certainly, I don’t match my wheelchair there, “said a second.

“Everything goes too far now. Can’t we go back to Tills mainly and have just a odd couple service for 10 items or less? ‘someone asked.

“A very dystopian feeling, in the hope that the general public will vote with the feet,” another entered.

But some customers were large fans of the modern shopping method.

– Did you use these things? Are 10 times more convenient and faster. I like to pass by the huge queues with a complete stroller, to scan the screen, to pay on the road with the bags already packaged. If you don’t want to use them, no, a man said.

– I’m all for that! Why wait for you to be “processed” when you can put your articles in a stroller, pay and leave? Another has agreed.

It comes after shopping offenses have increased by 23 percent to over 490,000 per year to reach the highest level since the records started, they have revealed official figures last month.

The shocking data is an additional evidence of the British theft epidemic, which an body has warned today that it has been “escaped control”.

There were registered a total of 492,914 police offenses in September until September, the National Statistics Office (ONS) was found – the highest digit since the current police registration practices started for the year in March 2003.

The police have registered 1.8 million theft offenses in the year until September, an increase of two percent determined by shopping and an increase of 22 % of the offenses involving theft from a person (146.109). Knife offenses and robberies increased by four percent each.

It comes against the background of the warnings that the sale of “under control spiral” shopping, after a survey conducted by the British retail consort (BRC) has suggested that there are over 2,000 incidents per day, with staff facing aggression, being threatened with racial and sexual abuse.

There have been more than 55,000 theft incidents per day, equivalent to over 20 million in total.

The alarming figures show that the problem is getting worse, with cases of attacks and shopping that beat the record numbers last year to be a fresh level from the beginning of the polls in 2001.

This is despite the businesses that pay a record of 1.8 billion pounds for prevention tactics, such as CCTV, several security agents and used rooms.

About 61 percent of retailers say that the police response to help for help was “poor” or “very poor”.

Retail traders report unprecedented levels of violence compared to their staff, the number of incidents involving a weapon more than doubling to 70 per day.