Posted on 10/04/2023 10:08:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
"It makes me not want to shop there to be honest. I just go in there and get my prescription and then when I need other things, I go elsewhere because there’s nothing there to get," said Ilana Miller, CVS Customer.
According to staff who work there, 45 or more kids are regularly going in to steal chips and drinks before school, after school, and late at night.
CVS employees have been alerted that thieves are aware of when new shipments come in and that's when they target the store. They also say that street venders are allegedly paying people to steal so they can re-sell it and make a profit.
FOX 5 walked down 14th Street passing by street venders and noticed were selling items like toothbrushes, men and women body wash, car fresheners, and laundry and cleaning supplies – which are some of the same items no longer available inside the CVS. However, there is no direct evidence that those goods came from the store.
"I’m stuck. I mean, it’s bad to do, but they’re probably doing it for a reason, they need those things, but they shouldn’t just be going in and clearing the shelves because it’s not sustainable for the store," said Miller.
"A lot of people can’t actually afford things in CVS, I’m not saying stealing has to be the solution to that," said Gerald Darling, DC Resident. "However, I don’t know, maybe, if the city could provide more accessible resources to unhoused or under income folks who can provide them hair care, bodily care, hygiene care – that could be an option."
The CVS in Columbia Heights does have one security guard during business hours. However, customers and employees do not think that is enough and want to see the shoplifters prosecuted.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5dc.com ...
CVS in Columbia Heights open despite mostly empty shelves
A CVS store in D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood is being ransacked. Customers are raising concerns about the location on 14th Street after noticing the shelves are completely empty. FOX 5’s Sierra Fox reports from Northwest after checking it out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kglFnk29Ob4
The Floyd Effect
All stores and restaurants should close across D.C.
Shoot em
We are seeing a lot of this in Los Angeles. Crime is rampant!!
Just imagine how busy the stores will be around Christmas when those procrastinators have to do all of their Christmas stealing at the last minute.
> “I’m stuck. I mean, it’s bad to do, but they’re probably doing it for a reason, they need those things… <
CVS customer Ilana Miller had my sympathy at first. Then she said that. This situation is hopeless.
Oh, and I wonder if she would feel the same way if someone broke into her apartment because they “needed” her jewelry and her wide-screen TV.
I know what “DC” really stands for now... and it ain’t District of Columbia. I just can’t say it in polite company.
Democrat anti-capitalists creating their own reparations
After the Great Genocide is completed and the Great Reset is fully implemented no one will have to work and everything will be free.
/s
I wonder if this would happen in a small town
Haven't you been informed?
The concept of "crime" is a toxic construct of the greedy white supremist power structure as a tool to keep the black man down!!!!!
DC = DemoRat Cesspool or District of Corruption
“I’m stuck. I mean, it’s bad to do, but they’re probably doing it for a reason, they need those things...”
“A lot of people can’t actually afford things in CVS...”
Yeah, it’s a big mystery what the root problems are, and an even bigger mystery what to do about it. When the store is closed and boarded up, they’ll have time to think about it. Idiots.
It’s apparently racist to expect them to show up at work on time, but they can figure out a delivery schedule with no help at all.
Democrats are getting the anarchy they have been advocating. This will spread.
I wonder if this would happen in a small town
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Our small California town police response to shoplifting calls. They can not really arrest them (they give them a summons) but they can take back what was taken from the store.
They also enforce the no camping laws.
So you don’t see the “homeless” wandering the streets or sleeping on the sidewalk. Writing this I just realize we do not have graffiti everywhere. There might be some, but it is not where the average person can see it.
I wonder what we're dealing with here. Are we dealing with a brainwashed majority who truly believe in the sympathy for thieves hogwash? Or are we dealing with people who think that mess is the majority thinking and, therefore, don't want to be seen as an outcast?
I wonder what we're dealing with here. Are we dealing with a brainwashed majority who truly believe in the sympathy for thieves hogwash? Or are we dealing with people who think that mess is the majority thinking and, therefore, don't want to be seen as an outcast?
No, they don't. But keep telling yourself that as you go bankrupt from your own stupidity.
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