GPS trackers are being fitted to grocery items including sausages, steak, and beef in the latest bid from supermarkets to stop the shoplifting epidemic plaguing Britain’s high streets.
The trackers allow the location of the products to be followed once they leave the store and have been spotted at a number of Co-op stores across the UK.
In another attempt to deter shoplifters, the items are also placed in locked plastic boxes.
Co-op Cumberland sausages, which cost £3.90, have been pictured in the boxes with a label reading ‘protected by GPS’.
Meanwhile, other Co-op meat products, including £7 British sirloin steaks and Angus beef roasting joints,
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