Posted on 10/04/2023 10:08:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
"It makes me not want to shop there to be honest. I just go in there and get my prescription and then when I need other things, I go elsewhere because there’s nothing there to get," said Ilana Miller, CVS Customer.
According to staff who work there, 45 or more kids are regularly going in to steal chips and drinks before school, after school, and late at night.
CVS employees have been alerted that thieves are aware of when new shipments come in and that's when they target the store. They also say that street venders are allegedly paying people to steal so they can re-sell it and make a profit.
FOX 5 walked down 14th Street passing by street venders and noticed were selling items like toothbrushes, men and women body wash, car fresheners, and laundry and cleaning supplies – which are some of the same items no longer available inside the CVS. However, there is no direct evidence that those goods came from the store.
"I’m stuck. I mean, it’s bad to do, but they’re probably doing it for a reason, they need those things, but they shouldn’t just be going in and clearing the shelves because it’s not sustainable for the store," said Miller.
"A lot of people can’t actually afford things in CVS, I’m not saying stealing has to be the solution to that," said Gerald Darling, DC Resident. "However, I don’t know, maybe, if the city could provide more accessible resources to unhoused or under income folks who can provide them hair care, bodily care, hygiene care – that could be an option."
The CVS in Columbia Heights does have one security guard during business hours. However, customers and employees do not think that is enough and want to see the shoplifters prosecuted.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5dc.com ...
“DC = DemoRat Cesspool or District of Corruption”
My rendition of “DC” is not that nice.
“...but they’re probably doing it for a reason,..”
Yeah, because they suck.
Good heavens these people are pathetic. Don’t even want to buy their own tooth brush or shampoo.
I know they get free money so what do they spend it on?
No sense of moral decency at all.
There are only 83 looting days left before Kwanzaa. Don’t wait until the shelves are empty!
Couldn’t happen to a better company. As you sow, so shall you reap.
Yeah, but not until we throw a wall up around the place so they can’t just continue to loot the surrounding areas.
Banlieue 13, that’s the real modern dystopian prophecy that most people missed.
Retail pharmacy stores are buggy whips. Amazon pharmacy is unbelievably good, cheap, efficient, and responsible. Their retail health goods and OTC medicines are cheaper, and brought to your door.
Democrat held territory
Black privilege.
This is what a collapsed society looks like.
Oh, give me a break. They’re just enabling the looting scumbags with that attitude.
It wasn’t that long ago, I remember places like CVS, convenience stores or mall stores limiting how many kids could be in there at any given time and making them leave their backpacks at the front of the store. They watched them like hawks, no matter what race they were.
We get to pay no matter what. We stand in the checkout line to pay, while America’s most privileged waltz out of the store with more than one of our paycheck’s worth of things. We pay in higher prices for the merchandise that is GIVEN, with full knowledge to criminals. We get to pay the taxes that pay for the government-run stores in “underserved” areas.
All because the democrats want to bankrupt us and get America’s most privileged to vote democrat permanently.
Good heavens these people are pathetic. Don’t even want to buy their own tooth brush or shampoo.
Forth Generation of parasites.
Most of the Looter Tribe don't know who their fathers are.
No one in their families have held a job in 65 years.
Paying for things with money they have earned is a concept foreign to their existence and experience.
Blue Cities deserve what’s happening if the opinions of the two morons interviewed are the norm.
And after many of the stores in the blue cities leave or go bankrupt I can imagine some of those poor folks affected by that crying on TV that they don’t have nay place to buy groceries or drugs even if their kids were part of the crime gangs.
Yeah, they're trash and should be incarcerated for the rest of their lives, cause trash like that never changes.
Hey, at least in prison, they'd finally get a chance to see their parents.
drag the meat to the street and let them rot
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