Supermarket chain Jumbo warns its staff against visitors who secretly take sexually tinted photos of female staff members and customers. These photos are then distributed online. The KRO-NCRV program Pointer discovered hundreds of so-called ‘creepshots’ online, made in Dutch stores. You can also see minor subject fillers.
Creepshots His sexually tinted photos and videos that are secretly made from female staff and customers in stores that zoom in on breasts and buttocks. Pointer discovered that online images are included in the Jumbo, Albert Heijn, Plus and Lidl. The images are distributed through private chat groups and international forums, with sexualizing comments.
“She has no idea who photographs her fit, thick white ass.”
“She has no idea who is standing behind her and photographs her fit, thick white ass. One of my best photos so far,” writes a Creepshot maker in photos of a customer’s buttocks. Another appears to have followed a victim for a long time. “I stalked her and thought she was an employee who was shopping during the break,” says a Voyeur in fifteen photos that zoomed in on the buttocks and breasts of a young woman in a supermarket.
“We are going to do our utmost to get the images offline.”
Jumbo is angry about this worrying trend. “We are going to do our utmost to get the images offline,” says a spokesperson. The supermarket chain has immediately contacted the forum and demanded that the images made in Jumbo stores are taken offline.
The Veghel supermarket chain will soon inform all store managers of this worrying phenomenon, the spokesperson says Pointer. “Given your alerts, we decided to inform all store managers at the beginning of October. To let them know that this unfortunately also takes place in our stores, but also to explain what you can do as a store and employee,” said the Jumbo spokesperson. Jumbo further investigates whether a photography and video prohibition in their stores is legally feasible.
Of the women who identified Pointer on creepshots in recent months, two made it. In both cases, the investigation also yielded an e-mail address and IP address of the maker, which are shared with the police.