Sainsbury’s boss says retail sector at a ‘crossroads’ amid a rise in shoplifting offences
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Sainsbury’s boss says retail sector at a ‘crossroads’ amid a rise in shoplifting offences
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Sainsbury’s has started testing controversial facial recognition technology in its UK supermarkets in a bid to catch shoplifters.
Supermarket chain will join hundreds of other stores with an eight-week trial to try combat record levels of retail crime
Warren Rajah was left ‘distraught’ after staff at the supermarket mistook him for an offender
The business revealed that they take an estimated £20 million annual hit from the cost of shoplifting
The Sussex police chief has vowed to use facial recognition and electronic tagging to stop shoplifters from ‘robbing with…
Sussex Police says the scheme is intended to ‘tackle repeat offenders’
Critics called on the government to limit roll-out of facial recognition, but others have urged ministers to accelerate the…
