The following article from Germany describes a new phenomenon, the result of accelerating price inflation: the use of anti-theft devices on ordinary food staples displayed in supermarkets.
If the trend continues, one can envision a situation in which food stores will resemble Korean markets found in inner-city neighborhoods in the USA. All merchandise will be inaccessible to the customer, protected by bulletproof Plexiglas barriers. Customers will tell the clerk what they want, and hand their cash (or CBDC cards) through the slot before receiving their purchases. $30 for a loaf of bread. $75 for a dozen eggs. Forget meat — can’t possibly afford that. And expect the price to rise another 10% in the next couple of weeks.
Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Report24. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Price explosions: German supermarkets attach anti-theft devices to staple foods
In the best Germany of all times, groceries now apparently have to be provided with anti-theft devices based on the English model: the first citizens seem to be driven to acts of desperation in view of the price explosions. This does not affect high-priced items such as champagne, but staple foods. Are these now becoming luxuries?
Inflation is causing food prices to skyrocket, and further price increases are forecast for the next three months. This was the result of a survey by the ifo Institute, as reported by ARD. More and more people can no longer afford these horrendous prices and are driven to desperate acts — obviously the number of thefts is increasing. The first supermarkets are taking countermeasures — with anti-theft devices.
A supermarket in Berlin-Weißensee has now attached security markings to some types of meat — yellow stickers with the inscription “Secured article”. While cheap meat with the husbandry level one, such as rump steak, lamb skewers, steak from the prime rib of a young bull or Argentinean steak, is secured here, the yellow warnings in a Lidl branch in Tegel are for higher-priced meat (beef fillet, steak and soup meat).
The anti-theft devices also seem to be used in other supermarket branches. On Twitter, a user shared a photo showing the yellow stickers on butter. She wrote: “I think this is insane, Lidl! Have we gotten to the point where regular butter has to be protected against theft with a security tag?”
When asked by Bild, Aldi did not rule out such theft-prevention either, but, like Lidl, Rewe, Netto and Norma, did not want to comment publicly on security measures.
Citizens are driven to desperate acts
The development is worrying. Accordingly, Adolf Bauer, President of the Social Association Germany, said: “The fact that supermarkets and discounters have come so far that they do not categorically rule out anti-theft devices for food leaves us stunned. It is more than obvious that staple foods must not become even more expensive. It is imperative that we prevent the majority of people from no longer being able to afford this and that their last resort is theft.” And he warns politicians: “We must not leave people alone with their existential fears. Because otherwise the social division will continue to increase and social unrest could no longer be ruled out.”
According to the consumer protection center, food has become more expensive in all food groups: “In the past 20 years, food prices have risen significantly less than other living costs. While inflation was still just under 1.5 percent on average between 2000 and 2019, the price increase from July 2021 to July 2022 was 14.8 percent.” [Lucky them. Food prices have gone up in South Africa since the “Mad Cow Plandemic” of the late 1990s, and each and every time the oil price increases, and the food never decreases when the oil price drops, either.]
Additional security measures are already being taken in Great Britain. Supermarkets from the chains Sainsbury’s, Coop, Tesco and Aldi provide baby milk, vitamin supplements, steak, cheese and butter.
How could things have gotten so bad in Germany, which is said to be so rich that people are forced to steal the food they need because they can no longer pay for it? The traffic light government, one of the main causes of these catastrophic conditions, does not seem to see any need for action. On the contrary, instead of finally deviating from the suicide course and relieving citizens sufficiently, they are loaded with more and more burdens such as the announced gas levy for gas customers. [My mum just told me that one of her neighbours will have to pay a €1,400 gas levy per month from January of 2023. Right now she pays a gas levy of €300 per month. Who can afford this?] Despite inflation, the energy crisis and the housing shortage, migration, which is a major burden on the German social system, is being pushed ahead. For example, the German taxpayer often has to support these so-called refugees who are seeking protection from all over the world for the rest of their lives, while they themselves may soon not even be able to afford basic food, despite having a full-time job. The present is degenerating more and more into a dystopia — will there soon be Hunger Games for German citizens?
Afterword from the translator:
I think that the “Hunger Games” are on the globalist agenda, since the same thing is happening all over the world. Here in South Africa break-ins into supermarkets and food-storage facilities are rising, Hijacking of food transports too, and the same goes for the simple theft of basic foods in supermarkets. Even people’s vegetable gardens aren’t safe, nor anything else people have to supplement their diet with. Friends of mine just had all their chickens stolen the other night, including the chicken feed. Also they want to implement an “electricity levy” that will make it impossible for most households to be able to afford electricity, especially if they want to eat. But then, this levy will also be laid onto the shoulders of the end-user for everything else, food most of all.
The Germans in the middle of covid when they did not know how this disease fatality they got buses with Romanians and travel them to Germany to attend to German crops
No social distancing and basic sanitation was offered
I hope Germans will be [redacted]
Romanians will always have food because we always have good land
I hope all Germans [redacted]
Will be a good pay for what they did to Europe again
Or it will be not-a-vax passport only for entrance and WEF EBT card after the intentionally wiped out Weimar Wheelbarrow currency is used to heat up the bug kebabs.
The local Sack-N-Save has put up railing and subway gates in preparation.
Alarms and PSA security audibles go off if you subvert the gates or use the self-checkout aisle to get past.
The old Normal is never coming back.
Winner winner chicken dinner.
Wipe out the food supply, military takes over food, ration card/global electronic currency/chip implant enforced to control the people.
Hard to fight against the person giving you food if you’re starving.
The new normal is an open prison yard. Many young people will never know what liberty was like and will not be able to imagine it even while listening to the old ones discuss it.
One would guess if that is needed, farmer’s markets would disappear as they are. They won’t stand up to a flash mob. Maybe a fenced guided path where the theft won’t occur until until the customer leaves.
Jawohl, Butter! Nicht klauen.
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Australia has had anti theft on meat for a while in some supermarkets as so expensive. We send so much to China now. Other staples are still reasonably cheap. Loaf of bread $1.50. Litre of milk $1.50, was about $1.30. 500g butter $5.99. Milk and butter have gone up about 20% in the past month.
Eggs $4.09/12, were about $3.60 until last month.
Items are out of stock more often lately, but can be found at one of the big chains.
Had trouble finding cabbage but may be due to the QLD floods earlier in the year.
I only buy staples and suggest everyone else do the same. Cook at home.
Every person that cares about their health should cook at home.
Learn how to make more from less.
We did that under ceausescu
We survived.
Whiled the west was swimming in food and energy,
West should learn
CBDC has to be in everybody’s working vocabulary:
Central Bank Digital Currency
CBDC under any name will be the “WEF BET” mentioned above.
It is the Mark of the Beast.
EBT autocorrected to BET above.
Holodomr was localized to Ukraine.
This time they intend to take it GLOBAL!
Actually, in Russia too.
No mention of the odd fact that in some areas pork products are not subject to the same measures. Or that the defunding of police or the decay of moral standards that have contributed to an increase in shoplifting and the legitimizing of theft.
From the article: “How could things have gotten so bad in Germany, which is said to be so rich that people are forced to steal the food they need because they can no longer pay for it?”
How indeed were they asking after 8 May of 1945. Because people will never learn to not repeat the mistakes of the past. Nay, instead they use it as a template to be used for the future. Which meets the very definition of insanity.
“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.” – Adolph Hitler (1889-1945)
People get the governments they deserve.
Did everyone forget just how eager Germans were to force rapefugees on the rest of Europe whether they wanted them or not? How eager they still are? Or how they threatened, bullied, coerced, fired, banned, and otherwise made life a living hell for those brave souls who refused to take the fake vaxx? And how can people forget that these extortionate prices are entirely self inflicted, first by shutting down perfectly good nuclear power plants, then shutting down before it had even opened Nordstream 2, leading the charge of sanctioning Russian and Belarusian agricultural products and fertilizers, and in general being the willing (prostitutes) of the American neo-con establishment and the Klaus Schwab/Soros/WEF elites?
Individually the stories of average citizens not being able to afford food or energy are tragic, but this needs to be tempered with the understanding that it was these average citizens that created this destiny in the first place as they reap the bitter harvest of the evil seeds they willfully sowed or complacently allowed to grow and metastasize. And not just once, but for the third time in barely more than a century.
Spot on. Civil war is now a certainty. As far as I am concerned anybody that was pushing the lockdown and vaxxes (and still are) fully deserve what is coming to them. I wll not lift a finger to save these disgusting people behind this nightmare.
Rationing will be next. Like a EBT card in operation, you’ll be told what you can buy. The criminal elite will trigger their long planned for panic in Western Countries and let it last long enough for people to beg them to come and save them, at any cost. This is the recipe for your enslavement.
Except for one minor detail, the militaries of the European countries all mentioned will have military coups because that will be the only choice. The people voted for their demise, so why should anyone give a damn what they think?
The horrors being lined up to inflict onto the Germans and other EU people are both self-inflicted, and accepted by themselves. They do not rebel (for the most part) and they do not seem to want to evade what they know they’ve got coming for their inaction, and obedience to the State. Everyday people being unwilling and unable to see the handwriting on the wall (put there courtesy of the communists) is going to earn them either a slow or fast death, here as well. The monsters are on the loose, and mouthing sweet lies to people who lack both perspicacity and morals. Deserving or not, many are headed for the slaughter.