Posted on 02/06/2024 9:24:20 AM PST by george76
Safeway installs new security gates, requiring customers to scan receipts before exiting store..
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Washington, D.C. supermarkets have started installing high-tech security gates in an effort to prevent rising retail theft and crime in the nation's capital.
Over the past week, Safeway grocery stores in Columbia Heights and Adams Morgan have installed new security gates that open once a customer scans their receipt.
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The security gates come as retail thefts continue to climb.
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The Safeway in Columbia Heights recently experienced an overnight theft in which thieves broke into the grocery store’s ATM to steal the cash and ordered the employees to get on the ground.
The three suspects in the crime are not in custody and police continue to search for them
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A CVS in Columbia Heights near the Safeway, is reportedly closing at the end of the month
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The closing comes months after videos surfaced in Oct. 2023 of row after row of empty shelves at the CVS store after a group of shoplifting teens ransacked the store.
The rampant theft has gotten so bad at the CVS location that customers have begun shopping at other locations for necessities.
The nation’s capital is grappling with an escalating crime surge, having surpassed a 20-year record-high in homicides with 274 homicides recorded by the end of the year, according to Metropolitan Police Department data. Robberies also skyrocketed last year, up 67% from 2022, while theft was up 23%.
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How does it know the receipt matches the goods in the cart?
Every Democrat city is a crime-infested mess.
But the cities deliver the state-wide offices and presidential electors to the Democrats so nothing will be done.
Im expecting grocers to install vending machines for the small stuff, like razors, soaps, toothbrushes, tooth pastes, squeeze water enhancers.
you are a thief but you draw the line at jumping a security gate
sounds like a gun free zone solution
only law abiding citizens will obey
I don’t think it does, unless everything is RFID-ed. But it shows they did make purchases, and the date...
“The Safeway in Columbia Heights recently experienced an overnight theft in which thieves broke into the grocery store’s ATM to steal the cash and ordered the employees to get on the ground.
The three suspects in the crime are not in custody and police continue to search for them”
I had read that ATMs have theft deterrence measure including dye packs that explode when an ATM is tampered with or experiences physical damage during an attempted break-in and renders the bills entirely coated and presumable unusable?
Adams Morgan is near the zoo and less than a half mile from Kalorama - where The One lives and all the international diplomats. I’m a little surprised they’re having such problems there. It used to be a trendy night life area. Columbia Heights is a different story. That area was always on the edge but I never felt unsafe there. The Safeways and CVS’ are all located on main streets. Its not like they are tucked away in some corner.
Retail Justice. Food Justice. Public Toilet.
Codes require exits to be unlocked during business hours.
The closing comes months after videos surfaced in Oct. 2023 of row after row of empty shelves at the CVS store after a group of shoplifting teens ransacked the store.
“Teens”. Huh. No pics?
what if the store does not have the item I wanted, so I would like to leave empty handed
Voting Democrat has a terrible effect on normal life
(“Teens”)
Archie, Betty and Veronica?
I wondered about that. They could be attached to alarms to unlock in case of emergency. ?
I sometimes go into a store and walk out without buying (or stealing) anything. I suppose I could just wait for someone else to scan their receipt to exit.
These are the people the democrats and rinos want deciding how illegal immigestion should be handled.
These are the people that are ignoring crimes and trying Trump for questioning an election.
“I wondered about that. They could be attached to alarms to unlock in case of emergency. ?”
After looking at the photo:
These are flimsy gates INSIDE the store. Maybe easy to go around or run through.
“Congress shall have the power...to legislate, IN ALL CASES WHATSOEVER, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States...”
Congress must immediately dissolve the incompetent and unconstitutional “DC government”, appoint a military governor with orders to shoot looters and carjackers on sight, and stand on its plain black letter Constitutional authority to do so.
WalMart in Norfolk VA. Without getting hold of the person with the key I (or my wife) can’t get:
Toothbrushes
Spray Paint
Men’s underwear or socks (women’s are not locked up)
Cologne
Women’s hygiene products
Drill bits (or other small tools)
and the list grows.
This is where I think vending machines will come in handy. You just use your credit card and buy the items within the store. Since you’ll have those items, they can be assumed to have been paid for.
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