I honestly don’t know how it has come to this. It’s only hurting the community when they pull out. And as someone else said nobody else is coming in, except more Dollar Stores and shit like that. So the 90% that are doing things right are penalized by the 10% or whatever. I know it’s a bullshit Fox News slant but at some point this shit does have to stop.
DC supermarket near closing after $500K in groceries walks out the door
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This will lead to retail and food deserts in communities. It's sad, but I can't blame businesses for pulling out of areas where they can't keep their employees or merchandise safe. Ultimately, this will lead to stores that you can only order things online for and they will deliver your groceries to your place of residence, but only after you have paid your money. I'm not sure if that will make things more expensive as they would have to hire packers and delivery drivers instead of cashiers (which they are largely eliminating anyway) and security. But, that's probably the future in these areas. Sucks if you like to pick out your own produce. I guess there will still be farmer's markets in places.
This.
The looting and shoplifting is going to change the face of retail in this country.
California jewelry store owners fight back during attempted robbery
A family who owns a jewelry store in Southern California fought back against a would-be smash-and-grabber who attempted to rob the shop.
Douglas C. Neidermeyer
HB Legend
Grocery stores and other retailers should move to delivery/pick-up only - that would solve the shoplifting problem. No access to the inventory = no thefts.
Anyone without the internet can show up at the store, fill out and paper shopping list - like the sushi check-box menu. They can place their order and pay for the groceries through a cashier-like window, and wait for their groceries to be pulled and brought outside.
It sucks that people are shitty and feel entitled/enabled to steal things - but if store owners can't shoot them (or at least shop their hands off) to stop them, and prosecutors aren't going to prosecute the thieves, it's the next best option.
Anyone without the internet can show up at the store, fill out and paper shopping list - like the sushi check-box menu. They can place their order and pay for the groceries through a cashier-like window, and wait for their groceries to be pulled and brought outside.
It sucks that people are shitty and feel entitled/enabled to steal things - but if store owners can't shoot them (or at least shop their hands off) to stop them, and prosecutors aren't going to prosecute the thieves, it's the next best option.
There was a segment on this store on the local news yesterday and it is going to shift to removing some items (Tide, for example) and limiting a lot of products to store label/brand.....until it ultimately closes
If the cities don’t enforce laws, don’t punish people, and have politicians coming to their defense to justify their actions all it does is embolden more a-holes to do a-hole things.
If the politicians pressure the DAs not to prosecute and the DAs let the cops know they won’t prosecute. The cops will not respond and make arrests. There may be a law on the books against stealing but they have for all intents and purposes made it legal.
Well, a store typically offers goods or services. The people would like said goods or services, but would like not to pay.
A Target store in LA County reported 1.6 million in retail theft loss in 2022 and there’s no slowing down in 2023. I had a conversation with one of their heads of security and there first step has been to lock everything up, but they know that it will curtail impulse buys. He predicted that within a few more years of sustained retail theft Target stores will begin closing and pivoting to an online retail company similar to Amazon. One of the ideas being floated is still having the option of curbside pickup. I hope that doesn’t come to pass, Target employees a lot of people.
Are you telling me that teenagers aren't thinking about the consequences of their actions? I'm shocked!
Maybe you will have to be a member like Cosco with the entrance having a lot more security/verification.
Something will change, that is for sure.
Not only do I own businesses, I own businesses in every location variable you can imagine.
Anyone that doesn’t understand that this is indicative of a enormous erosion in values and society as a whole, is hiding their heads in the sand.
So right on the American average. Thank you, that's kinda what I expected.
Veteran Unemployment Rates
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Here's what you asked Alaska to provide a link for:
We have a lot of unemployed combat vets. I think we should put them to work.
If you bother to look beyond the headline, you'll see there thousands of them. Sure, there are lots more unemployed than that, but that wasn't what you asked for.
I want to know how they figured out this number. They wouldn't need to worry about any loses they had....they would become rich just by letting others know.
jo biden’s America where only criminals matter…DC supermarket near closing after $500K in groceries walks out the door
As cities across the U.S. grapple with a growing shoplifting problem, a Washington, D.C., grocery store may be on the verge of closure after rampant theft has depleted much of its resources, a D.C. councilman warned.
A popular Giant Food store reported $500,000 in product loss due to shoplifting, the store's management told D.C. Councilman Trayon White recently, which equates to roughly 20% of sales after theft.
White called the news "disheartening" in a press conference last week, especially after the store recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire security guards and upgrade its equipment.
Despite its effort to crack down on shoplifters, thieves remained emboldened and continued to walk out of the store with their carts filled with stolen items, White said.
A chain with padlocks secures freezer doors at a Walgreens store on July 18, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
A San Francisco Walgreens store has locked its freezers with chains and padlocks to thwart shoplifters that have been hitting the store on a regular basis and stealing frozen pizzas and ice cream.
"We know it's tough times, and we know the price of food has skyrocketed in the last three years," White said. "Well, we cannot afford to hurt ourselves by constantly taking from the store, because I mean, everybody is going to be without a place to eat, and enough is enough."
The store has had to stop suspects 135 times, "and they almost doubled that amount and didn't get stopped," White said.
If the store has to shut its doors, White warned the impact would be felt hard in the community, as the chain is the only major grocery outlet in Ward 8, serving more than 85,000 people.
An unspecified grocery store seen in Virginia on July 13, 2022.
"We are home to a lot of senior citizens and elders. We have to eat at this store, and what we take from his store we put the store in jeopardy of closing down," he said.
The store hasn't announced any plans to close, but amid an uptick in grocery store shoplifting across the country, people are worried. And it wouldn't be the first Giant store to shut down.
In June, Giant President Ira Kress told Washington, D.C., radio station WTOP that thieves are stealing "everything" at the chain's outlets, from food to beauty products. Some Giant locations began placing products behind a lock and key.
He added that shoplifting at Giant has "probably increased five to 10 times in the last three years." The chain has 165 locations across Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and D.C.
Aftermath of a New York City Looting
The trend of brazen shoplifting, also known as organized retail crime, has become common in cities like Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Portland. Many major retailers like Walgreens, Nordstrom, and Whole Foods have shuttered stores in these cities.
A brand new Whole Foods in San Francisco's mid-market neighborhood closed this year after only one year of operating, citing theft and unsafe conditions for its employees. In May, an Old Navy also shut its doors in the crime-ridden city.
Meat, seafood, candy, energy drinks and alcohol are among the top pilfered retail items, according to a 2022 National Retail Security survey. According to the survey, organized retail theft has resulted in losses exceeding $100 billion.
No matter where you live, you pay for crime driven by marxist policies.
No justice here. I would characterize it as an unjust reaction to an unjust system. Civilization is imperfect.
