Posted on 09/04/2023 7:21:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Giant grocery store in Southeast Washington, DC, has removed name brands like Advil, Colgate, and Tide from its shelves to better prevent a spike in theft.
Beyond the removal of brands, shoppers at Giant will also be required to show their receipts to security guards before exiting the store. Ira Kress, president of the chain, told the Washington Post that the store can no longer serve the community by keeping its stores at high risk.
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Sounds like it could be hell finding some Preparation H in the District of Corruption.
What a racist thing to do.
Now the natives will have to steal house brands. Not the good stuff.
The brand names are well printed ON the product packaging.
HOW are they doing such ‘removal’???
My guess is that they’re forcing customers to have to ask for name brands that are being kept off the shelves.
Most supermarket chains have product delivered by the distributors, some of whom put the product directly on the shelves that they've paid a slotting fee for.
End caps and side caps commonly had slotting fees but now even aisle sections have it. A rep from the distributor restocks the shelves instead of relying on the supermarket staff.
Tracking how many items were sold is by the output of the cash register system. The distributor and the retailer could square up what was sold and thus affect payment.
High theft means the items never passed the cash register so the items don't hit the list sent from the retailer to the distributor.
Constantly inventorying what is left and what was stolen becomes unmanageable and the distributor ends up walking away instead of losing money.
D.C. Grocery Store Removes Brand Names from Shelves to Prevent Theft by Blacks
The title was cut short.
To avoid creating food ‘deserts’, one has to be able to think in terms of the future. Some people are very poor at this.
One does not prevent theft by reducing preferences.
Street savages steal everything that isn’t bolted down. Stores close because they exist for the profit motive and are losing money. Liberals wail and moan about “food deserts.”
What will liberals do? Will they rush to “solve” the problem they created by setting up free food places, delivering free food, bringing in free food trucks?
If they do that, it will fail too because the street savages will pillage and plunder the free food places, attack and kill the food delivery people, and trash and strip the food trucks overnight.
Liberal “solutions” to problems always fail, prompting liberals to double down on their “solutions”, which will also fail, causing them to strengthen their failing “solutions”, .... repeat until doomsday.
Great explanation.
Giant has also hired security guards. Imagine that...security guards needed in grocery stores. Never thought I’d see that.
The name brands can be sold on the street at a discount. Store brands, not so much.
They are simply no longer selling the brand name items.
shoppers at Giant will also be required to show their receipts to security guards before exiting the store
If I was a security guard there, I’d be very careful about confronting shoplifters.
“The brand names are well printed ON the product packaging.”
They are not removing the names from the items. Only from the shelves.
“D.C. Grocery Store Removes Brand Names from Shelves to Prevent Theft”
If I was a security guard there, I’d be very careful about confronting shoplifters.
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Shoplifting is just a restrained form of looting.
Feral blacks are the shock troops for late stage urban decay
You can get the brand names, but you have to ask for them since they are being locked up, according to one article I read. I also read that another store is pricing everything at just under $1000 to get around the “allowed to steal” policy. They have coupons for the regular price behind the counter.
The brand names are much higher in price. The thieves steal the brand names and sell them cheaper.
I retired from Duracell/P&G. Duracell had its own branded trucks for the batteries, but they were hijacked so often that they had to start using other not-branded trucks to haul products.
Here is something else I know from personal experience. A lot of the store brands are made by the name brand companies with the store label on them to make them cheaper. You pay for the name on the outside on some brand name items. I don’t know if the quality is different or not.
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