Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter | Supermarkets

Iceland, a grocery chain, offers an £ 1 award for loyalty cards to customers who buy a thief.

Frozen Food Specialist, everyone who detects a suspicious shop in their stores, the individual’s loyalty card before adding the reward for the immediate use of the incident to confirm the incident should inform the nearest Icelandic employee, he said.

Richard Walker, the head of the family group, said Channel 5 News to the retailers’ cost of £ 20 million and resources that could be spent for personnel watches or lower prices. “Some people see it as a crime without a sacrifice, not,” he said.

“The scourge of theft in our high streets continues to disturb England, not only in the big cities, but also with the spread of our market towns and villages, not only in the high streets.

“We encourage our loyal customers to help provide alarm to combat any activity in Iceland stores, and if they help to capture a shop, we will fill the bonus cards to spend in the store.”

In April, official figures showed that the number of theft crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales has passed through half a million crimes in 2024 to the highest level in the registration.

The retailers say that the national statistical office figures “seriously underestimates the scale of the problem, which means only two events for each shop.

The British retail consortium (BRC) pointed out the increase in shops where regular gangs stole on order.

This week, Police Minister Diana Diana Johnson warned the public against confrontation with shops and suggested that retailers should not exhibit expensive items such as alcohol in front of stores.

His comments, Conservative Police and Thames Valley, Matthew Barber claimed that people were the task of standing against theft rather than trusting police officers.

Retailers say that shops are seen as a soft target Change in 2014 Law In the UK and Wales, those who stole goods less than £ 200 are often escaped from any prison period.

Large chains are accused of contributing to the increase in crime by using more self -service controls in stores by reducing the number of personnel and keeping costs low.

However, businesses say they have spent millions of pounds to increase security in recent years, including face recognition and the establishment of AI-aid cameras.

The government has launched a legislation to help fight theft, including the abolition of 200 pounds of threshold for theft of “low -level” theft.

The draft crime and police, which works through the Parliament, will bring an independent crime to attack a retail worker. The government promised funds to fight organized gangs involved in store theft.