Alice Springs Woolworths shuts doors and shortens opening hours after spate of violent attacks
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Woolworths’ unique image exposes the terrifying reality of the ‘lawless’ inner city, where ALL doors are locked except one due to crime wave
- Alice Springs Woolworths closes doors to shoppers
- Security gates locked at night, early closing time
- The store has seen violent incidents in the past month.
A Woolworths store was forced to close its security doors while it was still open and impose strict closing hours to try to curb violent incidents.
Alice Springs Woolworths will move its closing hours from 9:00 pm to 7:00 pm beginning January 30 to protect shoppers and staff from “incidents.”
“The safety and well-being of our team and customers is of the utmost importance to us,” a statement from Woolworths read.
“We believe this change in business hours will help reduce the likelihood of incidents occurring.”
Supermarket giant Woolworths had to close the security doors at the exits of its Alice Springs store (pictured) while shoppers were still inside to try to stem violent incidents.
The supermarket recently closed security doors at all night exits since January 15 in response to a violent attack at the store.
“There is no place for violence anywhere in our community,” the Woolworths statement reads.
‘We thank the police for their quick response to the incident that recently occurred at our Alice Springs store.
“Our team reacted calmly to the incident in accordance with our established security procedures, and we thank them for doing so under difficult circumstances.”
The city is in the grip of a series of break-ins, robberies and violent crimes committed mainly by young people from the area.
The store had to move its closing time from 9:00 pm to 7:00 pm (pictured) for the safety of staff and customers as the inner city experiences a wave of juvenile crime.
A photo of the locked security gates with shoppers still inside was shared on the Facebook page, Action for Alice 2020, with many commenters upset at how far the situation had gone.
“All of Australia should be outraged by what is happening in Alice,” wrote one commenter.
‘Where are our elected leaders? Where is the police commissioner or anyone to address Alice’s poor misery cups? another commenter wrote.
“I was at the post office at 7pm and there wasn’t a single person around… no mob,” wrote one commenter, responding to the outrage.
‘I call BS. No one in this photo seems concerned about themselves!
Darren Clarke (pictured), who runs the Action for Alice 2020 Facebook page where the images were posted, has called for the sacking of NT Police Minister Kate Worden.
An Alice Springs bakery owner, Darren Clarke, who also runs the Action for Alice 2020 Facebook page, took aim at NT Police Minister Kate Worden in an interview with Sky News on Tuesday morning.
“When Anthony Albanese gets off the plane, the first thing he has to say to (NT chief minister) Natasha Fyles is ‘Kate Worden, go away,'” Clarke said.
He has to go and he has to go today.
Police and some commentators say crime levels in the inner city have risen since the government lifted alcohol bans in July.
The problems were ‘immediate’, police said, when the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Act ceased on July 17, 2022, meaning alcohol became available for the first time in many of the Territory’s indigenous settlements. since 2007.