Go into almost any of the major retail chains in the UK and they, like many smaller shops and businesses, will have CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) installed to monitor shoppers.
There will be signs telling you that you are being watched. That's the legislation and rightly so.
But the supermarkets don't want to say 'we are watching you in case you steal'.
So they put up weasel-worded notices like this -
"For your safety and security we protect this area with CCTV"
They mean we are taping you and probably a security person is watching you live.
Why don't they be upfront and say something like 'we use CCTV to deter shoplifters'?
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