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New anti-theft Walgreens store in has just 2 aisles of touchable merchandise
CWBChicago ^ | 6/1/23 | staff

Posted on 06/01/2023 6:51:15 AM PDT by CFW

CHICAGO — During an earnings call with Walgreens investors earlier this year, the company’s chief financial officer opined that his fellow executives may have overstated the effects of organized shoplifting rings on its operations.

“Maybe we cried too much last year,” James Kehoe said.

Good luck balancing that cheery, non-crying analysis with what you see when you walk into the company’s freshly redesigned store at 2 East Roosevelt in downtown Chicago.

In what was once a typical Walgreens, there are now just two short aisles of so-called “essentials” where “customers may shop for themselves.” If you want anything else—a bottle of booze, a deodorant brand deemed “non-essential”—you’ll need to order it at a kiosk and pick it up at the counter.

(Excerpt) Read more at cwbchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; crime; illinois; theft; walgreens
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To: Leaning Right

Sam kept a double barrel behind the counter.


21 posted on 06/01/2023 7:11:49 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: CFW

The store floorplan is for diverse neighborhoods.


22 posted on 06/01/2023 7:12:07 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Roberor thert Heinlein)
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To: wally_bert

The real reason they got rid of Apu.

23 posted on 06/01/2023 7:13:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Codeflier

Agree, I wonder what the percentage is of unplanned purchases. I bet it nears 50%. This is going to stop that percentage of the income. But how else to stop the thieving 1%?


24 posted on 06/01/2023 7:17:41 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (When Ashli Babbitt’s video-taped murderer Michael Byrd is indicted, I’ll start paying attention.)
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To: CFW

It will happen, but a lot fewer criminals have the nerve to draw a gun and make demands, rather than just grabbing something and running out.


25 posted on 06/01/2023 7:17:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: CFW

The Dims will say Walgreens is racist unless and the DOJ should charge them a daily fine until they make all stores in the country like that.


26 posted on 06/01/2023 7:22:47 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: CFW

The democrats have deliberately destroyed the trust that there once was. They did it on purpose, so their favored criminal class can walk into a store and take whatever they want, up to $1,000, and no one will stop them.

This transfers the cost to the store and to the honest, paying customers. As always, the left punishes the good, and rewards the bad.


27 posted on 06/01/2023 7:23:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The democrat party is the most subversive and harmful institution on the planet. Tied with media.)
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To: CFW

WIC, Welfare, Food Stamps, free phones, cable, etc. and they still feel the need to steal. What percentage were brain damaged in utero due to alcohol, drugs or abuse? Add a few contra coup injuries by being slapped around, and that’s life in the ghetto. Jesus is the only answer for these brain damaged, entitlement mentality, ferals. They are little better than locusts, and we can thank the .gov for that.


28 posted on 06/01/2023 7:23:32 AM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: CFW

This is how Amazon gains business. If I cannot handle what I am to trade for my dollars, bugger off.


29 posted on 06/01/2023 7:42:03 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: dfwgator

Bring back the rooftop Koreans


30 posted on 06/01/2023 7:44:38 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Right Brother

I can see them limiting access to one or two people at a time.


31 posted on 06/01/2023 7:46:13 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: I want the USA back

You nailed it.


32 posted on 06/01/2023 7:48:46 AM PDT by Enten (I don't have islamophobia...I do have islamonausea)
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To: jmcenanly

“The “clerk behind the counter” could be an AI or a touchscreen, as seen in many fast-food restaurants.”

Could this world get more bizarre than it already is? You betcha. I’m envisioning something along the lines of Michael Jackson’s AI as your customer service ‘agent’.... a la Back To The Future. And...considering the “”in yer face”” attitude of the woke left, I’m betting the AI sims will be much more offensive.


33 posted on 06/01/2023 7:55:13 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: CFW
"Grab & Go Snacks"?

That would seem 'inviting'.


34 posted on 06/01/2023 7:56:19 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: CFW

I was going to post something similar. Modern version is online orders only. Curbside delivery or pickup only after CC or similar payment has been made and approved.

I would not be surprised if that rapidly starts to become the norm. Fits in well with the push for a “cashless” society.


35 posted on 06/01/2023 7:56:38 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: CFW

A Bud-Light aisle. Nobody would steal that.


36 posted on 06/01/2023 7:59:13 AM PDT by Blogatron (Brought to you by the American Frog Council: "Frog - the other green meat")
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To: hanamizu

The post office was like that in Boston Dorchester.


37 posted on 06/01/2023 8:10:56 AM PDT by 5inch38gunner
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To: Right Brother

Walgreens is saying it without saying it.


38 posted on 06/01/2023 8:27:05 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: CFW

“A return to the concept of the days of old when you placed your order at the counter and the clerk retrieved and boxes up your purchases.”

That was the standard not so long ago in the Soviet Union.


39 posted on 06/01/2023 8:34:07 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Codeflier
That will kill unplanned purchasing by the customers lowering revenue.

Yup, but the savings they'll enjoy because 'ferals' aren't stealing will more than make up for it.

40 posted on 06/01/2023 8:40:56 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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