Personal observation here in Ontario. I have all of the sudden seen a few grocery chains installing barriers with electronic gates blocking entrance to the store. This could easily be rigged to deny entry if you can't get the magnetic locked gate to open. This in place would have made it much easier to keep anyone without a mask or vax QR code out in 2021. Are they prepping for total control? Anyone else see this?
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I’ve seen a ton of stores with those gates for a long time. In fact, I remember them being more common when I was young.
Canadian Tire has had them for as long as I can remember. Food Basics, and other grocery stores have had them for years.
Truthfully, they’re intended to deter shoplifting, since they usually only swing one way, allowing people to come in the store, but deter people in the store from walking out the entrance without going to cash first.
I saw these installed recently at some grocery stores, but my take is that they see the cost of groceries going up, and see a greater risk of shoplifting because of that.
It’ll take a LOT more than a flimsy little gate to keep people out of grocery stores. Don’t let your guard down but I think you can relax a bit on this particular issue.
Dudes paranoid, lol.
Beware people that are wanting to make sure you are afraid of the threats lurking around every corner. No matter the side, if they want you afraid it's because they are using you or priming you for later use. There's not a hole in the ozone. Theres not super predators. And there isn't newly installed "total control" gates, in any meaningful or strategic way.
Yes, shoplifting from grocery stores is way up. All these barriers are common in low income areas, they're probably just getting installed in more affluent areas now. Same thing happened after 08.