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  "textContent": "The supermarket warned customers they being watched on CCTV to prevent ‘egg theft’ in signs throughout the store (Picture: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)\n\nSainsbury’s is warning they will catch thieves who are swapping premium eggs into cheaper boxes.\n\nThe supermarket warned customers they are being watched on CCTV to prevent ‘egg theft’ in signs throughout the store.\n\nThe warning reads: ‘Removing eggs from the packet is regarded as theft. Footage of shoplifting will be passed to the police. We prosecute all shoplifters.’\n\nAnd it is also affecting other shoppers, who buy a box of the more expensive eggs to find they have been swapped out for cheaper ones.\n\nEarlier this year, Anita Wong, 53, found she had paid more for eggs which were not the right ones.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nShe said in a post on Instagram: ‘This is what’s happening in a lot of supermarkets at the moment.\n\n> In the week where shoplifting has been in the news, even Eggs are not spared.This Sainsbury's store appears to be adopting a policy akin to New York's broken windows; with footage passed to the Police if a customer REMOVES EGGS FROM THE PACKET..! pic.twitter.com/cHzAdcTbov\n>\n> — Steve Dresser (@dresserman) April 16, 2026\n\n‘The more expensive eggs, people are actually decanting those into the less expensive egg boxes and buying them, so the people who are buying the more expensive eggs are unwillingly buying the less expensive eggs.’\n\nWhen she returned the eggs to the store, she was told the issue was ‘not uncommon’.\n\nIt comes as shoplifting incidents rose 20% year-on-year to 2024, reaching the highest level since records began, according to official figures, and in 2025, soared another 5%.\n\nA Metropolitan Police chief has said shoplifters are escaping justice because shopkeepers aren’t handing over CCTV evidence to police.\n\nThe Met Police reports that around 5.9% of thefts recorded led to a charge as of March 2025.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "Sainsbury’s issues warning to thieves swapping out eggs"
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