Posted on 07/20/2023 10:54:55 AM PDT by lowbridge
As stores struggle with retail crime, a Walgreens pharmacy in San Francisco has appeared to chain up its freezer section in an attempt to thwart shoplifters.
Chains have been spotted in front of freezers at the Walgreens location on Geary Boulevard and 15th Avenue in the city's Richmond District. Store workers said Monday that they made the move within the past two weeks.
According to employees, the store sees more than 20 shoplifters every day, with items such as pizza and ice cream being cleared out every single night.
Video of the freezers has gone viral, even capturing the attention of Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
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With retail thefts an ongoing issue, retailers are trying different techniques to thwart thieves. Some Safeway locations in San Francisco have recently installed gates where customers have to scan their receipts to exit.
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Lame
Any cheap-azz bolt cutters will end that problem...
Why in the heck are they still in San Francisco? They can’t be pulling that much of a profit by staying there.
A dystopian solution to the problem: lock the shoplifters in the freezers until they freeze to death. Then leave them there as a warning. Or something. Or just close the stores and abandon the markets. Leave it as a truly food/convenience/medicine desert. Normal people will continue to move out and it will die a slow and ugly death, as it deserves to. Lastly, seal off city hall sooner than later so all the a$$holes who caused this problem can’t leave, and they to succumb to their madness. Its only fair, isn’t it? Just sayin’.
Walgreens has tens of thousands of stores.
No business is in the business of losing product and losing profit, but to answer your question, in order to not to appear politically incorrect, they keep open stores in high loss locations and they don’t actively interdict theft and use all of their stores to subsidize it.
Do paying customers still go in person to shop?
I’m a white male, can I steal sub $900 and not be arrested?
Asking for a friend…
Actually, if the criminal predators aren’t dealt with, they just move to the next closest target.
At the rate it’s going, they’ll have to chain down the store itself.
A 90% solution would be to pass a state law and hang signs at stores declaring it, that anybody caught shoplifting will be forced to take swimming lessons.
😂
Honestly,
Why even bother?
It seems it would save a ton of money and aggrevation to just clear out the freezers and shut them down.
The optics of having pizza and ice cream under lock and key is NOT a good look for any store.
The Walgreens and CVS stores closest to me have closed. The stock was just walking out the doors.
It'd be an arms race, but Walgreen's next move is to close all stores in San Francisco.
And the semi normal people that are left..are trapped like a rat because they can’t sell their houses?
You might want to look into a personal shoplifter.
“Just break the glass” coming in 3...2...1...
HILARIOUS! Well played!
Chaining up shoplifters and the politicians who set them loose would be more effective.
Years ago, the key to my pick-ip canopy would open the beer coolers at the gas station.
It sounds nuts, but I’m sure it’s happening. During the Summer of Covid, I was hanging around some homeless at a local lake. Many had been trespassed from the local WalMart, or just weren’t up to brazening out a shoplifting spree. One time a guy said “I’m going to WalMart...give me your lists.”
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