Giant Food makes a last ditch effort to stop retail theft

Hot Air ^ | September 04, 2023 | John Sexton

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Soon we will all be living in food deserts.

[P.O.E.]

Not to worry. They’re building mega-warehouses all over the place here - all are empty. My guess is future government distribution centers. If you have the right social credit.

[No name given]

Along with the mark of the beast.

[17th Miss Regt]

Some people deserve food deserts. They create them. They deserve them.

[george76]

California shocked to find bill decriminalizing retail theft resulted in… more retail theft..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3781744/posts

[plain talk]

Of course this situation will affect all of us but the people hit hardest are the lower middle class and poor that live in the rougher neighborhoods.

God help them and God help us all.

[P.O.E.]

A lot of no-cash, electronic business going on, so I can see that as an easy transition for many.

[Brian Griffin]

“They are doing this to resell the items online”

The national-brand items were probably being sold to crooked or ignorant retailers. If these retailers tried to sell Giant-brand items the public would notice.

[No name given]

Sadly, that’s right.

[quantim]

I feel bad for the store owners and staff as they are the victims. When the residents lose their stores many of us don’t give a damn, they voted for it.

[God luvs America]

All?? Nope- just the morons in blue craphole places like, NY chitty

[No name given]

My thoughts exactly.

[golux]

I really loved my friends who worked at SFW or what I called the Shvartza's Food Warehouse. My favorite of these was a charming, bright lady - a big African American woman - whom I always greeted happily.

She told me about the situation there, and what she did about it.

Of course, employees were not, under any circumstances, allowed to chase down, accost, confront, or even address shoplifters.

Here's what she did:

She rushed out of the store, past them, toward some imagined emergency, and bumped them - accidentally. Innocently.

"I guess I'm just not coordinated," she told me with a smile.

Many a cake wound up on the floor, ruined...

And unusable to any party.

"At least, if the food is gone, they ain't gonna have it either."

I liked her style.

[sten]

Why not have a security guard monitor the store, could be remote, and if someone is shop lifting they would lock the outer doors so the thieves can’t leave and once the thieves get to the external door, close and lock the interior door as you call the cops

[Jane Long]

Let them touch those things for once!

[Jane Long]

Who’s building these empty mega-warehouses?

[mabarker1]

The makeup/beauty chain (sapphora ?spelling? I think is the name of it) that the stepdaughter works at has a lot of theft by teenagers and the employees are not supposed to confront them about the makeup theft under threat of being fired.

But the employees are subject to being searched including their purse every time they leave the store.!?!

WTF kinda policy is that ????

IMO the employees should be armed and have the option to fix the problem. But I’m just one of those Bible/White/blahblahblah/angry/conservative/males so I must be wrong.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Things have gotten infinitely better since we took prayer out of schools and banned the Ten Commandments on public property. We have failed John Adams by becoming a grossly immoral and irreligious people; we are reaping what was sowed when we abandoned morals and religion.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“My guess is future government distribution centers. If you have the right social credit.”

AND you WILL like the one flavor of government cheese they stock. Don’t worry about inventory turnover...the sawdust filler will keep it fresh way beyond its “sell by” date.