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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“A dystopian solution to the problem: lock the shoplifters in the freezers until they freeze to death.”
Too unsanitary. How about this: haul the ones you catch out to the public square and force feed them pizza and ice cream until they expire. Repeat as necessary.
You want free food? You got it!
If you’re talking about those circular key locks, they are notoriously bad. You could take the plastic tube from a Bic pen, jam it in there, and open any of them.
This was a handle lock. My canopy had a T-handle.
Then some store, to save money, had the shoppers come in and shop for themselves - so he made the grocery cart. It didn't go over well at first.
I would go back to that system. Have the groceries sitting in individual cages and coolers that can be watched by one guard and can be opened with a credit card, or have one or two attendants that can take cash.
The prices probably wouldn't change much due to fewer to no product loss. And if the shoppers complain, tell them “Well, it was either this or we were going to close down and move 50 miles away.”
You can order online at my grocery store, and it’s waiting when you get there. Not because of rampant theft, though.
I think a lot of stores did that during the shut-downs and it stuck. Back when our kids were newborns I was thinking that it would have been real nice to be able to pre-order a few things and have a drive-thru window to pick it up! Coming home from somewhere late, the kids asleep in the car and remember we needed milk and diapers or something.
Arrest the little bastards and lock them up for three months in Alcatraz. No tv. Second offense? Electric chair.
I remember the old country store that was close enough to walk to from the surrounding community. They kept candy and Ice Cream and mostly canned food and all displays were on shelves behind the counters that ran both sides of the building. In front of the shelves was bagged or barreled foods such as peanuts, potatoes, etc. It was very difficult to snatch and run from those stores. If it didn’t work there was always the shot guns along the check out counter. I loved that store and the candy the groscer would hand out to us kids.
Inccidently we have a Walgreens in our village. High prices but a great store. It would be awfully hard for any one attempted to steal anything would never make it out of reach. Don’t ever allow America to destroy the small villages.
If creepy old Joe is replaced by fast talking Gavin Newsom - all our stores will becomes like California’s... chained.
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