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Countdown supermarkets is considering trialling the use of body cameras for some staff in a bid to address chronic verbal abuse directed at staff and as physical assaults become more common.
Body cameras, if introduced, would be able to capture detailed evidence of abuse. Violence towards supermarket workers has become an urgent issue since a stabbing attack at Dunedin Central's Countdown store in May last year, and a terror attack at Auckland's LynnMall Countdown last September.
Kiri Hannafin is the manager of corporate affairs at Countdown.
