EXCLUSIVE: 50 Scottish Shop Workers Attacked Every Week

Published 23rd Apr 2015

By Connor Gillies

We can reveal around 50 Scottish shop workers are being attacked on the job every single WEEK. We are seeing exclusive figures from the USDAW retail workers union.

The stats show more than half of Scotland's 250,000 shop workers were verbally abused over the last year. 30% of them were threatened by customers.

Our reporter Connor Gillies has been speaking to Lisa who has worked in a major supermarket in Edinburgh for the last 11 years