Posted on 05/31/2023 3:23:28 AM PDT by dennisw
One grocery chain is fighting hard to keep stores open despite rampant shoplifting and an uptick in violence forcing many retailers to leave major cities across the country.
Giant Food, which operates 165 supermarkets in D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, has taken multiple measures to combat theft and keep stores safe, according to a report in The Washington Post. That includes limiting store entrances; hiring security guards; restricting the number of items at self-checkout stands; putting less high-value items on shelves; and securing razor blades in containers that make noise if opened.
Company president Ira Kress said he's seen theft rise at least "tenfold in the last five years" and violence increase "exponentially."
He hopes these measures will help keep stores open, even if they inconvenience shoppers. "The alternative is worse for customers," he told the Post. "The last thing I want to do is close stores. But I’ve got to be able to run them safely and profitably."
Fears of violent reactions from shoplifters has also changed some companies policies over the years. "We used to chase shoplifters," Kress said. "And you’d get the product back, and nobody would ever fight you. … I didn’t worry about somebody pulling a knife or gun on me [40] years ago," he told the Post.
A consumer and retailer industry expert said that retailers will continue to leave cities as it has become difficult for them to maintain a profit with organized retail crime and theft at an all-time high.
"We’re seeing the highest level of organized retail crime and theft ever," Lakshman Lakshmanan, senior director in Alvarez & Marsal’s consumer and retail group said in the Post report.
Other retailers have similar policies in place, due to fears the employee might be harmed or killed in an altercation with a shoplifter.
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This is the result of one party states and a compliant media.
But one question I have for all these large corporation, which party have you been supporting?
Money is the grease that keeps politicians in power. If these large corporations continue to help get Democrats elected then they have reaped what they sowed.
Uh Oh! He said “Profit”. Not allowed.
waiting for " Night Of The Living Dead" to play out so we can start shooting people who are attacking others!
One sure fire way to get rid of Democrats is to close grocery stores and starve them.
I would have to be pretty desperate to ever patronize a retail store that has security guards in it.
When they close the stores in urban areas, the shoplifters simply go further out into the burbs.
Eventually the stores will close in the suburbs as well.
A total break down in society, and then it’s the Hutu versus the Tutsi. Welcome to Balkanized America. The bloodletting is going to be massive. The end of the world as we know it, and I’ll be fine. /spit
Kroger, even in my rural area, is rapidly growing their home delivery presence. Online ordering and pick up will eventually eclipse the traditional store walk for most others. In the urban areas these two developments are also problematic due to dem big blue crap hole city governing. Delivery is a problem (pizza delivery robbery is a prime example) as is pick for those who use public transit.
America needs to arm up and get rid of Satan’s fr’kn animals ... NOW
I wonder why the Dems want to put these animals into areas of low crime with government housing? Or get them to these areas with government transportation. The Dems are truely the party of evil.
Yep.
And what is stopping them from putting an end to the theft and violence immediately? Seems like a simple thing. Guess they don’t want to be accused of racism. This idiotic fear of the Left is the problem.
Company president Ira Kress - I know him, we worked at Bob’s Big Boy together back in the 80s. Good to see him doing well.
I was surprised that our local Giant was having issues but it made sense. They encouraged customers to use the self checkout and there were plenty of times we would be waiting behind people with 2 carts of food self checking. There is no way they scanned everything. They had seven registers, one was open and food was just walking out the door. Now, they don’t have the same selection of meat, their grocery prices, which were once the lowest in the area, are now on par with the other more pricey chains like Harris Teeter and Wegmans. The surrounding neighborhoods has been de-genrtified too. The developers added “affordable” housing and now we have end-to-end bums on the streets, cars being robbed of the catalytic converters, area c-stores being blitzed by feral yutes, open air drug selling and shootings.
Effing democrats ruin everything they put their grubby fingers on.
One can begin to believe ….. the excrement draws nearer to the fan
“ …D.C., Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, has taken multiple measures to combat theft…”
I think that I see the problem.
Entitlement welfare has turned out to be a very bad and costly experiment.
Our store is very proud to introduce specialty departments.
They will provide great business opportunities for mainly minority group members.
Our partners allow our stores to continue to offer to the shopping public items that we can no longer offer on a self-service basis.
It’s that stupid Giant robot’s fault!
What exactly is that robot there for anyway?
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