BUSINESS Ben Dugan Works for CVS. His Job Is Battling a $45 Billion Crime Spree.

Wall Street Journal ^ | September 1, 2021 | Rebecca Ballhaus and Shalini Ramachandran

[karpov]

Progressives have legalized shoplifting, and this is the result.

[bitt]

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[pepsi_junkie]

There are no grocery stores in Camden, New Jersey. Too much theft, no profit in it. So eventually they all just shut down. People need to take buses to other nearby towns to buy them.

Coming soon to San Francisco, only they will lose groceries AND pharmacies.

[P.O.E.]

Reparations was always a skim operation for organized crime. They just figured out a new angle, but it’s still run by guys in business suits. Big difference: now they have the law on their side.

[Regulator]

Havent noticed CVS supporting things like say, the recall of Newsom, or for that matter, any Republican candidates here in California. Certainly not in SF.

So maybe they just live with it.

[ProudDeplorable]

And the cities where these stores are located do nothing. They should get out of these cities and cut their loses.

[ProudDeplorable]

And the cities where these stores are located do nothing. They should get out of these cities and cut their loses.

[freefdny]

“ . It is a menace that has been supercharged by the pandemic and the rapid growth of online commerce that has accompanied it.”
Total BS. It’s a menace that has been supercharged by idiotic liberal policies that refuse to prosecute criminals.

[mad_as_he$$]

The term “booster” is generic. Pseudoephedrine thief(s) are called “smurfs” according to Jessie Pinkman.

[EEGator]

Maybe my next career if I get fired for not getting vaccinated.

We can live like The Warriors. Can you dig it?!?!

[SaveFerris]

There’s lots of people stealing from retail to these days

For sure

[SaveFerris]

Cyrus had a bad day......

[blueplum]

sold on Amazon

because Amazon would never think that they might want to look at a member selling millions of dollars of allergy meds as opposed to say, floss picks.

[EEGator]

Indeed.

[unixfox]

The job for Mr. Dugan, CVS Health Corp.’s top investigator, was to stop them.

Easy. Instead of waiting and watching what they do, wait, put a bullet in their head, stuff in dumpster. Repeat process.

[UB355]

Thank you

[NonValueAdded]

So maybe they just live with it.

Why fight a losing battle when the cost can be passed on to the rest of us?

[aquila48]

I didn’t see any mention that California has legalized shoplifting of $1000 multiple times a day.

[AppyPappy]

Some foreigner owned business are doing something similar. Security busts them on the head and takes off. Everyone is wearing masks and the thieves don’t call the cops.

[aquila48]

“There are no grocery stores in Camden, New Jersey. Too much theft, no profit in it. So eventually they all just shut down. People need to take buses to other nearby towns to buy them.”

Racist corporations!