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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Helena Horton

Iceland chain offers job to man sacked by Waitrose after confronting shoplifter

Walker Smith posing for photograph
Walker Smith, 54, had worked at Waitrose for 17 years. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Keir Starmer’s cost of living tsar, who is the chair of Iceland, has offered a job to a worker who was sacked from Waitrose after trying to stop a shoplifter.

Waitrose has faced a public outcry over its treatment of Walker Smith after the Guardian reported he was fired two days after he stopped the shoplifter taking items from an Easter egg display, including Lindt chocolate bunnies.

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