Posted on 03/10/2020 11:01:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
PITTSBURGH — A Family Dollar store in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood says so many people are stealing from them, it may put them out of business.
Neighbors said they rely on the store for their essentials, which is within walking distance of many homes and schools.
The manager of the store said a regional team is looking into inventory and what could be done, if anything, to help the business stay afloat.
A neighboring business said extra cameras and a policy of no backpacks and no more than two kids in the store at a time have helped cracked down on the petty theft.
Nope. Herron was a pubbie in 1933-34 when FDR was stealing in the White Hut.
Savannah is an interesting southern town. Like most special places, it ain’t like it used to be. Though on the surface it, for the most part, it appears to be.
My mother and her family were all Savannah crackers going back several generations. My grandfather and uncle were Savannah city cops in the 30s and 40s. I have some stories. I spent a lot of time there off and on in the 60s and much of the 70s. Lived there for a year when my dad was stationed overseas.
I was 12 and my brother 14 in 1963 and we were allowed to buy 15¢ bus tokens and go where ever we wanted in the city by ourselves. We used to even hitch hike over to Hunter Air Force base on our own.
My younger brother was the last of my not too extended family living there when he passed 2 years ago. Now all there are is 2nd and 3rd cousins I’ve never met. I will probably never go back there. Still, there is a lot of nostalgia there for me. Probably as much for the people/family that are gone as for the place itself. And the food.
You forgot, "for once!" Let dem touch dose tings for once!
You’re right. Going on increasingly worsening memory...
;-) !!
“It’s a regular lab experiment in human behavior. And the results are exactly as you would expect.”
Lord of the Flies?
Those Family Dollars are not really dollar stores. They have various mostly low end stuff at good prices. Most of it is not $1, but generally under $5. The ones I have been to were in marginal neighborhoods with mostly poor looking customers.
Probably in the hood, no supermarkets dare venture, so all that is left is Family Dollars, which also get shoplifted badly.
California passed their ‘It must be $950 or above’ law and shoplifting exploded. A lot of the stores here have security guards but.....companies have instructed them to not try to stop anyone shoplifting from walking out. Liability if they’re hurt I guess. So I’m not sure why they’re still paying the security guards. shrug
This is also why you can’t write a check most places anymore.
A family member owned a store in a local mall- EVERY TIME she accepted a check from a certain ‘demographic’ it bounced.
Checks written to a retailer no longer go through a clearing process as they did in the old days. They are immediately electronically debited from the checking account. It’s more like using a debit card. No opportunity for them to bounce really.
The reason you don’t see checks being written is that few people write them anymore. I recently saw a lady in line ahead of me at Walmart pay by check. She was on the high side of 80. Had not seen anyone pay by check in years, and the cashier was thoroughly confused on what to do.
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