No wonder brazen shoplifting is on the rise… there’s no deterrent when the police don’t bother to investigate properly [Video]

REMEMBER the old TV show Supermarket Sweep, where contestants darted around the aisles cramming a trolley with high-value items?

Well it’s now playing out in real life in supermarkets across the country, minus Dale Winton (RIP) and his brief replacement Rylan Clark.

Shoplifting escalated to the highest level on record last month: An epidemic frequently excused by liberal types as desperate people stealing food in a “cost-of-living crisis”.

Statistically, there will undoubtedly be a few helping themselves to, say, baby formula they couldn’t otherwise afford.

But what of 44-year-old David Hanson, who broke through a glass window at an M&S food hall in Streatham, South London, and helped himself …