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Workers in supermarkets in the U.K. can now body cameras to protect themselves from attacks by customers. More and more staff are punched or with knives by angry people. Many sales assistants and checkout staff afraid to go to work. They are stressed, and they are worried about their safety. The UK's largest supermarket chain Tesco offering its staff body cameras. A spokesperson the number of physical assaults on its workers has by a third in a year. He added that 200 Tesco employees are victims of serious physical assaults each month. Thousands more are at and verbally abused every day. He the UK government to " an end to this".

Many people say attacks on supermarket staff are a sign that Britain is "". There has a huge rise in anti-social behaviour on Britain's streets. A survey in the Daily Mail newspaper that 72 per cent of voters think Britain is broken. Tesco's CEO Ken Murphy said his company has £44 million ($55 million) on trying to staff safe. Despite this, there has also a big rise in shoplifting. These two problems have to higher prices. Mr Murphy stricter laws for people who verbally or physically attack staff. He said: "Crime is a scourge on society, and an insult to shoppers and [shop] workers." He attacks on staff were "unacceptable" and "heart-breaking".