{"id":87435,"date":"2026-04-06T19:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87435"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:04:25","slug":"waitrose-faces-mounting-backlash-after-sacking-worker-for-tackling-easter-egg-thief-as-supermarket-insists-there-is-a-serious-danger-to-life-in-confronting-shoplifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/waitrose-faces-mounting-backlash-after-sacking-worker-for-tackling-easter-egg-thief-as-supermarket-insists-there-is-a-serious-danger-to-life-in-confronting-shoplifters\/","title":{"rendered":"Waitrose faces mounting backlash after sacking worker for tackling Easter egg thief as supermarket insists there is a &#8216;serious danger to life&#8217; in confronting shoplifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"articleIconLinksContainer\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/04\/06\/16\/107672333-15709879-Waitrose_shop_assistant_Walker_Smith_54_was_sacked_after_tacklin-a-5_1775489253282.jpg\" alt=\"Waitrose shop assistant Walker Smith, 54,\u00a0was sacked after tackling a shoplifter who was trying to steal luxury Easter eggs\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-mol-fe-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Customers have vowed to stop shopping at\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-9b543d20-31ca-11f1-a9f3-71c476bdba92\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/waitrose\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Waitrose<\/a><\/span>\u00a0after the supermarket chain sacked a worker for tackling a thief trying to steal\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-9b591f20-31ca-11f1-a9f3-71c476bdba92\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/easter\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Easter<\/a><\/span> chocolate.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15709879\/Waitrose-backlash-sacked-worker-tackling-thief.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; Customers have vowed to stop shopping at\u00a0Waitrose\u00a0after the supermarket chain sacked a worker for tackling a thief trying to steal\u00a0Easter chocolate.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/waitrose.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87437,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87435\/revisions\/87437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}