{"id":58272,"date":"2017-06-18T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/humiliation-on-the-high-street-as-security-guards-rob-shoppers-of-their-dignity\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T13:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T06:09:36","slug":"humiliation-on-the-high-street-as-security-guards-rob-shoppers-of-their-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/humiliation-on-the-high-street-as-security-guards-rob-shoppers-of-their-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Humiliation on the high street as security guards rob shoppers of their dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith budgets under pressure, stores are cutting back their security and using random spot checks to crack down on theft, as Anna Tims reportsPenny Keza was about to pay for her shopping at her local Aldi when a security guard bellowed across a crowd of customers and demanded to search her bag. \u201cI asked why he had picked on me and his response was \u2018People like you have been caught with stolen meat and alcohol\u2019. He was unable to explain whether \u2018people like you\u2019 meant women or black people. Apart from him I was the only black person in the store.\u201dKeza, who works for Citizens Advice and shops regularly at the store in the London Borough of Hounslow, had her bags searched and her body patted down by the guard who found nothing compromising. She complained to the store manager and was told that random spot checks are part of store policy. \u201cI accept that stores have to check for shoplifting, but the guy\u2019s words were discriminatory and humiliating and the manager dismissive \u2013 and neither of them apologised.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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