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DC supermarkets turn to high-tech security gates as crime continues to surge
FOX Business ^ | February 5, 2024 | Greg Wehner

Posted on 02/06/2024 9:24:20 AM PST by george76

Safeway installs new security gates, requiring customers to scan receipts before exiting store..

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Washington, D.C. supermarkets have started installing high-tech security gates in an effort to prevent rising retail theft and crime in the nation's capital.

Over the past week, Safeway grocery stores in Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan have installed new security gates that open once a customer scans their receipt.

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The security gates come as retail thefts continue to climb.

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The Safeway in Columbia Heights recently experienced an overnight theft in which thieves broke into the grocery store’s ATM to steal the cash and ordered the employees to get on the ground.

The three suspects in the crime are not in custody and police continue to search for them

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A CVS in Columbia Heights near the Safeway, is reportedly closing at the end of the month

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The closing comes months after videos surfaced in Oct. 2023 of row after row of empty shelves at the CVS store after a group of shoplifting teens ransacked the store.

The rampant theft has gotten so bad at the CVS location that customers have begun shopping at other locations for necessities.

The nation’s capital is grappling with an escalating crime surge, having surpassed a 20-year record-high in homicides with 274 homicides recorded by the end of the year, according to Metropolitan Police Department data. Robberies also skyrocketed last year, up 67% from 2022, while theft was up 23%.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; anarchy; antifa; blm; crime; crimesurge; cvs; safeway; safeways; surge
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To: monkeyshine

“I sometimes go into a store and walk out without buying (or stealing) anything. I suppose I could just wait for someone else to scan their receipt to exit.”

The photo show an attendant. I guess they could open it if you are not carrying anything. Don’t know if body search required ...


21 posted on 02/06/2024 10:11:28 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: george76; Roman_War_Criminal; SaveFerris; Tilted Irish Kilt; CottonBall

Perfect rationalization for implementing the Mark of the Beast. Get a chip on your hand or forehead in order to buy or sell.

People will be so sick of the rampant theft and paying for the crooks free stuff with their hard earned money in the cost of rising food prices, that they will GLADLY comply.

Me? Looking at my garden seeds already and seeing what I can pressure can of produce I already grew. Even root crops only store for so long. But I can pressure can some veggies well and meat while it’s still available.


22 posted on 02/06/2024 10:12:04 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: george76

Sounds like a gigantic waste of Money and Effort, CLOSE THE DAMNED STORES, let them all Starve.


23 posted on 02/06/2024 10:18:56 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Jamestown1630

Printed RFID - they said ten years ago if the cost could get to 5 cents at the item level it would pay for itself - not even considering theft.


24 posted on 02/06/2024 10:22:29 AM PST by bigbob
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To: george76

Calif. gov Gavin Newsom will stop the crime...
https://nypost.com/2024/01/31/news/gavin-newsom-recalls-how-he-was-blamed-by-target-clerk-for-cali-retail-theft/

BTW Foxnews Maria Bartiromo gushed in an interview with Donald Trump that Newsom is right out of central casting.

Stupid woman! He is known as gov Hairgel. She is easily swayed.


25 posted on 02/06/2024 10:22:53 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: TexasGator
Depending on the attendant I might consent to a vigorous pat down. But I’m rarely that lucky.
26 posted on 02/06/2024 10:23:19 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Jonty30

Automats for groceries.


27 posted on 02/06/2024 10:24:14 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: george76

Security gates are racist in 3,2,1…


28 posted on 02/06/2024 10:26:02 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024 )
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To: metmom

(Perfect rationalization for implementing the Mark of the Beast. Get a chip on your hand or forehead in order to buy or sell.

People will be so sick of the rampant theft and paying for the crooks free stuff with their hard earned money in the cost of rising food prices, that they will GLADLY comply.)

Yes.

That’s why I expect the Amazon One systems to continue to only expand in use / popularity. Perhaps exponentially.

Amazon One Commercial

https://youtu.be/xH_SVNVIfzk?si=Zpqd9Q6UdIfqu8Pt


29 posted on 02/06/2024 10:27:04 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: george76

Never any effort at the root of the problem, though.

Just make life harder for everyone else in society.


30 posted on 02/06/2024 10:31:16 AM PST by simpson96
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To: george76

The first time I hitch-hiked to Washington DC was the first time I had ever seen store owners buzz you in, and burglar bars, Houston didn’t have those at the time.


31 posted on 02/06/2024 10:31:39 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Jamestown1630
I don’t think it does, unless everything is RFID-ed. But it shows they did make purchases, and the date...

That is technically very feasible with RFID on each item associated to a printed receipt with a barcode that can be scanned at the door. The door RFID scanner can build a "manifest" of items observed and compare to the list of items scanned for the receipt. No receipt without payment. Many high value items have the RFID sealed inside the package.

32 posted on 02/06/2024 10:38:06 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: george76

Went thru some of these receipt-scan gates at a grocery store in Norway.


33 posted on 02/06/2024 10:38:27 AM PST by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: bigbob; Jamestown1630

Didn’t Amazon try this in some of their grocery stores? Everything is radio tagged. Just put items in your bags/cart and walk out. Automatically charges your card. No scanning, no clerk. I am not sure of the details they employed but technically it could work. Maybe you have to swipe your card but all the “work” of checking out is done by radio frequency. If I recall Amazon wanted fingerprints but that’s unnecessary. RFID could do almost all the checkout and you just pay. No waiting.

I was at Home Depot the other day, happened to be in the same center and needed some radiator coolant. I was headed to the self checkout and a woman checker clerk flagged me down. I told her I was glad she did that, job security. If corporate sees a checker only doing a small number of receipts they are likely to eliminate her job or scale back her hours. But it’s a losing battle. It is heading towards automation.

I was in the grocery store, a young kid was clearly new on the job. I teased him about having to scan the fruit and vegetables. I told him back in the day checkers needed to know all the fruits and veggies, or had a big book to look it up - and had to wring up the price by hand. An “old timer” heard me and said “we’ve still got that book around here somewhere”.


34 posted on 02/06/2024 10:38:51 AM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: george76

making urban areas an African wasteland.


35 posted on 02/06/2024 10:41:39 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: bigbob
Printed RFID - they said ten years ago if the cost could get to 5 cents at the item level it would pay for itself - not even considering theft.

One of my co-workers invented a laser barcode scanner that worked beautifully with printed barcodes...even moving around in 3D space. A great concept and implementation, but it lost out to RFID that could be scanned even when optically obscured.

36 posted on 02/06/2024 10:41:40 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

(RFID on each item)

That is the basis for the IBM system that they were promoting in 2007 - I remember being flabbergasted when I saw the commercial on TV

https://youtu.be/wzFhBGKU6HA?feature=shared


37 posted on 02/06/2024 10:53:24 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: monkeyshine

Amazon One makes a hash code of your palm print which is then authenticated against the database and your credit 💳 card or debit 💳 card is charged.

Although one can bypass for cash still, you can log in via palm print or cellphone 📱📱 to enter some of their stores ( Whole Foods pilot stores and others).


38 posted on 02/06/2024 10:57:05 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: simpson96

Yep


39 posted on 02/06/2024 10:58:10 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: george76

They obviously did not defund the police enough. More defunding is needed to attain true justice.


40 posted on 02/06/2024 10:58:54 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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