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DC supermarkets turn to high-tech security gates as crime continues to surge
FOX Business ^ | February 5, 2024 | Greg Wehner

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; anarchy; antifa; blm; crime; crimesurge; cvs; safeway; safeways; surge
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To: joshua c

This in a city where there is an olympic event of jumping metro gates.


41 posted on 02/06/2024 10:59:01 AM PST by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: monkeyshine; Myrddin; bigbob

I think Amazon did. I’ve never shopped there in person to see it.

The problem is that the RFID will remain on many things you buy and keep in your home - unless they now have a process to deactivate it, and it seems that would be quite a task. I think a lot of people wouldn’t like all of their purchasing habits hanging out there on the airwaves like that.

But it will probably happen anyway, eventually


42 posted on 02/06/2024 10:59:57 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: metmom

What’s a “pressure can”?


43 posted on 02/06/2024 11:08:02 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!)
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To: Does so

The process of home canning under pressure, with a pressure cooker.


44 posted on 02/06/2024 11:11:41 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

The passive tags used on retail items can be read only out to around 3 feet. Other types of RFID tags, powered, can be read out to 100 yards or so.


45 posted on 02/06/2024 11:14:33 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Does so

How could a “Former US Navy “Spook” not know what pressure canning is?


46 posted on 02/06/2024 11:16:11 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: monkeyshine
Didn’t Amazon try this in some of their grocery stores? Everything is radio tagged. Just put items in your bags/cart and walk out. Automatically charges your card.

Amazon did this in San Francisco on Market Street. Shortly after opening, City "leaders" shut down the store, saying it was unfair to homeless people who didn't have cards in order to enter the store. Of course, unfair meant they couldn't enter and shoplift without paying. Lots of shoplifting on the same block at other stores like Walgreens and CVS, and the goods were openly sold on the sidewalks nearby.

47 posted on 02/06/2024 11:29:54 AM PST by roadcat
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To: steve86

If that’s true, do you think it will always remain the case?


48 posted on 02/06/2024 11:39:07 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: george76
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.

Eventually supermarkets will give up and move out of the DC hellhole.

We don't have to do this in Red Florida because our criminals are arrested, put in the court system, them jailed when convicted.

49 posted on 02/06/2024 11:57:14 AM PST by GOPJ ( Ashli Babbit's killer was given a promotion after the murder. Never forget.)
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To: george76

Concrete barriers, barbed wire, the national guard with no bullets in its magazines, empty bureaucrat desks and aspirin locked in safes all over DC.

The fascist deep state is collapsing.


50 posted on 02/06/2024 12:06:32 PM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: Jamestown1630

I don’t know about the future but if they were to try and read those passive tags from outside your house they’d have to beam so much electromagnetic radiation in it would cook you like a microwave.


51 posted on 02/06/2024 12:07:07 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: cotton1706

This is a black problem.


52 posted on 02/06/2024 12:10:04 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: GOPJ

“We don’t have to do this in Red Florida because our criminals are arrested, put in the court system, them jailed when convicted.”

In many smaller cities and rural areas that’s still true. For example, here in Eastern WA, metro area 300,000+.


53 posted on 02/06/2024 12:12:05 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: sergeantdave

The General Services Administration, which manages all federal buildings, operating at 11%..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4205318/posts


54 posted on 02/06/2024 12:28:02 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: circlecity

EXACTLY

AN OLDER receipt could be used over & over


55 posted on 02/06/2024 12:41:58 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Does so

Pressure canning food for preservation. You need to process meats and low acid foods like veggies under higher pressure, and hence temperature, to prevent botulism. Regular hot water bath canning does not get hot enough to kill the botulism spores.


56 posted on 02/06/2024 12:52:55 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Jamestown1630

Thanks. A more succinct answer than the one I gave.


57 posted on 02/06/2024 12:55:15 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Mr. Blond
This is a black problem.

This is a Congress problem, 100%

58 posted on 02/06/2024 12:57:21 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Jamestown1630
I think a lot of people wouldn’t like all of their purchasing habits hanging out there on the airwaves like that.

Most RFID requires near field scanners. The scanner emits an electromagnetic field that energizes an RFID device in range. The RFID device uses the scavenged power to broadcast it's ID. On receipt, the scanner must use the ID to perform a database lookup to determine what the RFID is labeling.

When you take the merchandise away from the store, there is no longer an electromagnetic field to energize the RFID. It just sits quietly. Some RFID tags are intended to be disabled by a cashier before the merchandise leaves the store. They can be disabled with strong magnets or pulsed hard with an electromagnet to destroy the device. A high power RFID reader may have a range of 15 ft. The lesser NFC devices operate in the range of a couple inches.

59 posted on 02/06/2024 12:58:00 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Another poster said similar. But will it always stay that way?


60 posted on 02/06/2024 1:03:19 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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