Posted on 08/12/2023 2:05:54 PM PDT by dynachrome
Concerns are growing in Washington, D.C. about some major grocery stores being able to keep their doors open due to shoplifting.
During a news conference Friday, D.C. Councilman Trayon White said he spoke to the regional management of a popular Giant Food store on Alabama Avenue Southeast.
“We had the opportunity to meet with some of the leadership of this Giant,” White said. “Some of the regional leadership at this Giant, what we heard was disheartening. We learned that this Giant has lost over $500,000 in product loss, which is about 20% of the sales. We know it's tough times and we know the price of food has skyrocketed in the last three years. But we cannot afford to hurt ourselves by constantly taking it from the store. It means that everybody is going to be without a place to eat. And enough is enough.”
On Friday, White spoke out about the high rate of shoplifting at the Giant Food grocery store on Alabama Avenue Southeast.
“To date, this Giant has had at least 135 stops from people stealing from the store,” he said. “And they almost double that amount that didn't get stopped.”
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I worked for a major retailer many years ago. They told us to deter shoplifters with a warning shot in the back of the head. I think it was a joke, but I’m not positive.
Now they’re forced to carjack someone in order to do their stealin’.
Gas stoves in action. Ban them!
They deserve their food deserts. Crap like that doesn’t happen in small towns because people don’t allow it to happen. It’s sickening to think there are so many people that live so close together in big cities that they are incapable of banding together to do the most basic things, like eliminating drug dealers, prostitutes, cleaning vacant lots, cleaning their own properties, stopping shoplifting and every other minor crime. Why can’t they find a mob of good people to thwart the mobs of bad people? (That’s a rhetorical question)
Yet another example of the lack of enforcing laws on the books.
I’m way out in the Maryland suburbs, and we’re already a ‘drugstore desert;. The two nearby drugstores closed a couple of months ago due to shoplifting.
It’s creeping out of the cities.
There’s no food deserts, only black neighborhoods.
Good idea.
Reparations. What is wrong with that?
Don’t forget Gyorgy Schwartz and the WEF!
Indeed.
I no longer care. The store would be smart to close and reopen in an area where police are allowed to arrest the thugs and the judges sentence them to prison time. Also, clerks should be allowed three free whacks with a bat or 2x4 to each shoplifter caught. More if it is a repeat shoplifter.
No doubt!
“We kept taking a dump in our water well to protest white racism!”
“You white racists! How come we don’t have safe drinking water?”
I need to find a small town out in the middle of nowhere to retire to, get away from that kind of madness.
“Why can’t they find a mob of good people to thwart the mobs of bad people?”
They view this as reparations. And there are way more bad than good in these communities.
These business owners need to grow a spine and JUST CLOSE DOWN in the middle of the night without telling anyone.”
Closing a grocery store is very easy.
You just call the manager and employees in the middle of the night and tell them you are not paying them any more—they are fired.
Let the looters take care of the rest.
Since the system is run in DC under Bowser, it is systemic racism operated by a black female Democrat. And atop the heap, the very white supremacist, Dementia Joe, operating Demcrat systemic racism.
I seldom hear of them shoplifting actual food unless it is expensive meats. Usually it is cigarettes, make-up, Tide, Pampers, and other such resalable products.
Does anyone ever hear of anyone stealing a bag of potatoes and a handful of squash?
Feral dogs will hunt elsewhere.
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