Posted on 09/05/2023 6:07:02 PM PDT by george76
“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.”
Those various “ethnic” markets have to restock their shelves somehow.
I just find this crap so weird, I live in a county with one of the highest poverty rates in the country and our stores (any kind) don’t get robbed like that.
Perhaps it’s because 90 % of our residents are rednecks and heavily armed, or maybe because were just more honest than the demographic at those locations.
Here in Montgomeridishu AL, they took an old mall and repurposed it into a magnet high school, a technology training center, a fire and police station, a community center, a health clinic, library, etc.
My wife and I had COVID in Jan 22 and Jan 23. We did our shopping online and had the curbside pickup drop the order in the bed of our truck to prevent sharing the virus. We only needed that twice. Each round of COVID was over in 10 days. I didn't know that I had it for certain in Jan 22 until I passed it to my senior poodle who died 2 days later.
You misspelled gulags.
My local Martins/Giant has no sense of humor about theft.
I’ve sat in the parking lot and watched the usual suspects have their car literally disassembled by LEO looking for meat stashed inside the panels of the vehicles….or something. :D
Funniest one was the man screaming that he had “no idea” his wife was stealing 100 pounds of beef.
Watched the Target loss prevention team assist county sheriffs the other night.
Dude got dragged off in cuffs.
The city/county cops are enjoying themselves.
Good.
Funny.
The people I see getting nabbed are well dressed and driving vehicles worth as much as my house.
Six months ago, we were able to go to stores and buy stuff. I would go to stores(Giant in particular) during mark-down days and get great food. We would be able to walk into a Harris Teeter, Walmart, Safeway, Dollar General, Lowes and not be surveilled. you name it, we have it. Now, all those places have security guards and Giant has restricted entry/exits to one set of doors with security (uniformed). Our Giant location still carries Tide and Colgate but the shelf space is minuscule compared to what they had a few months ago. They really don’t have a mark-down day anymore because they don’t keep enough product on the shelves and in the cold-cases to reach expire date. Harris Teeter has multiple security guards and one of the local Safeway stores has what appears to be armed guards too. Our neighborhood has gone from a desirable family area to a security state in six months.
Effing democrats.
If you live in {or near} a large city, you are correct.
My home is 28 miles from center city, Pittsburgh and is in a different county, and the retail theft here {because of the people} is not that great.
I relayed the story last week about two good citizens that captured a thief that stole a whole cart full of goods from a local Walmart, and tied him to the cart with an electric cord that the thief had just stolen and then called and waited for the police.
Our local DA will prosecute this dirt bag and while the outcome is still uncertain, the mere fact that local citizens are willing to stop crime when they see it, discourages the perps from being so open about it.
If I saw some open thievery, I'd probably "fear for my life" and have to take appropriate action.
yup, love like the reorder function
The first I was aware of this was back in May when I was visiting family in Cocoa Beach. While driving around my stepfather pointed out this huge warehouse that he can’t figure out what it is for. It’s absolutely huge. It’s been there for many many months now, but never used. it seems to have a whole transit system such as bus stops or shuttle stops in the massive parking lot. Crazy. Then I noticed one somewhere in Maryland. And just this weekend I saw another one on the New Jersey side of the Delaware bridge.
When KISS was the order of the day.
Keep
It
Simple
Stupid
Well at least You have good LEO’s actually doing their job. Helps restore a little bit of confidence in the profession.
There was a thread about this a while back. Apparently when interest rates were way down it was cheaper to take out loans to build warehouses and even keep them empty for years. According to one poster - IIRC - somehow either because of taxes or inflation if you know you’re going to need a warehouse in 4 or 5 years it made sense to build it then and keep it empty rather than wait and build it later.
I had no idea the LEO had even started carrying cordless tools.
So freaky to watch someone’s car being reduced to components.
Simple solution - shoot them
They probably get stuff like that from Lowes/Home Depot and such for free.
The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol do that routinely and are good at it. Kinda like a cross between a Race Car Pit Crew and a street gang, the result looks like a Water Buffalo that was hit by a school of Piranhas. Just the skeleton sitting there.
If robbers want food they can get it — IN PRISON!!!
>:(
It was crazy.
*Really* nice expensive Toyota SUV, nearly new and I watched them pretty much skeletonize it in an hour.
Still funny, the husband wandering around, waving his arms in the air, wailing that he had “no idea” wifey had 50 pounds of beef under her shirt.
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