SHOPPERS have been left fuming as a supermarket has slapped security tags on £4.49 Easter eggs.

Easter eggs costing under a fiver have been locked up in a bid to thwart shoplifters.

Stores across the nation are tightening up in the fight against thieves who have seemingly turned their attention to chocolate.

QD stores in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, is hoping to stop crooks from snatching their eggs this Easter.

Cadbury and Nestle ones can be seen strapped up with a huge tag on them.

The branded items included Mini Eggs, Smarties, Celebrations, Yorkie, Maltesers and the classic Creme Egg.

Shopper Jake Game could not believe his eyes after stumbling across them.

Surprised by the extra security Jake said: “When you’re out in Wisbech and find they security tag their Easter eggs.”

The 25-year-old told What’s The Jam: “I just thought it was absolutely hilarious. They’ve gone to the extent of security tagging the Easter eggs.

“I have no idea why they tagged them.”

In February, one confused punter spotted a locked up £19 1kg bag of Mini Eggs, which had a huge security tag strapped across it.

The item was spotted in a WHSmith store on John Street, Liverpool.

'OMG' say shoppers as they spot major Easter staple weeks ahead of the big day

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This comes just days after shoppers spotted Tesco‘s own security measures to combat shoplifting.

The retailer installed anti-shoplifting plastic strips to shoo away criminals.

Bosses greenlit the contraptions which sit loosely in front of the store products and can slide from side to side freely if punters want to grab the item.

But shoppers have laughed off the appliance’s effect and questioned how the item would swat away would-be thieves.

A TikTok clip showing how the device works attracted sharp criticism from viewers.

“How does this stop shoplifting?” one person asked.

A second queried: “So you can slide it over and get what you need. So how is going to stop shop lifters?”

A third weighed in: “Thieves don’t care, they’ll just break them off or take longer to take things.

“Doesn’t matter whether barriers, gates, these, tags. They’ll steal if they want to steal.”

But others swooped in to defend the approach.

One argued: “They definitely work as someone who had these in their store it takes the thieves longer to get to everything so they might steal 10 bars instead of 30 and if they do go for more it gives security time.”

A second agreed: “It’s a deterrence mechanism, individuals are less likely to come in and make a quick theft from Tesco because of those stupid slidey things so they will go elsewhere.”

QD stores have been approached for comment.

The Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates delivered a letter to Los Angeles elected officials on Tuesday, March 25, urging them to avoid across-the-board cuts without considering their long-term impacts and offered recommendations to address a nearly $1 billion deficit at City Hall in the coming fiscal year.

Glenn Bailey and Jay Handal, co-chairs of the Neighborhood Council Budget Advocates, delivered the group’s annual White Paper, a report on the city’s spending and services, to Mayor Karen Bass and the Los Angeles City Council. They urged the city to evaluate the structure of city departments and to consolidate them if necessary, as well as to consider moving employees back into City Hall or offer work-from-home opportunities to reduce costs with leases.

“This is a pivotal moment in our city’s history,” the letter reads. “It is not a time for politics but for responsible financial stewardship. We must make tough but rational decisions.”

“This is also an opportunity to think about what kind of city we want in 10 years and structure the decisions accordingly,” the letter continued.

The budget advocates also noted that history has shown “indiscriminate reductions” — especially in revenue-generating departments — can result in unintended consequences. They warned against slashing critical administrative functions such as personnel, which could leave the city struggling to recover once economic conditions improve.

In the letter, the budget advocates provided the following recommendations:

— Update the four-year General Fund budget outlook to reflect anticipated raises for city employees;

— Develop a two-year budget;

— Conduct open and transparent labor negotiations that require significant outreach to Angelenos before, during and after the negotiations;

— Place a ballot measure that would prohibit the city from entering into any labor agreement that would create a current or future deficit, which in the short term could be implemented via an ordinance;

— Develop a long-term infrastructure plan;

— Create robust reserve fund that can only be used in declared emergencies and not to balance the budget (a current practice); and

— Establish an Office of Transparency and Accountability to oversee the city’s budget and finances in real time.

In its 116-page report, the budget advocates also provide a department-by-department list of potential cost-saving measures, which can be viewed at budgetadvocates.org/white-papers.

Under a system established in 1999, members of Neighborhood Councils are volunteers elected by residents of their respective communities. The councils advocate on issues such as homelessness, housing, land use and public safety.