Posted on 07/08/2024 9:47:53 AM PDT by george76
Delivery drivers in the South Bay say they're increasingly worried about becoming robbery targets.
It's happening enough that at least one company, Core Mart, is now hiring armed guards to escort its drivers.
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Flavio Lopez works for another delivery company and said he wishes he had a guard or at least a second person to help him keep an eye on the merchandise. Lopez hasn’t been robbed, but he has had run-ins downtown.
"Stuff you gotta deal with downtown," he said. "It is what it is."
Darrell Cortez, a retired San Jose police officer who now works in corporate and retail security, said, "Unfortunately, this is what society has become now with armed guards guarding merchandise from the retailer because there seems to be a sense of lawlessness in our society."
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"It's very unfortunate," he added. "You and I pay for it. The consumer pays for it on the backend because prices increase because the merchandise is going out the door and no one is stopping the bad guys because of the threat of violence."
Cortez said if one company is using guards to protect drivers, others are likely considering it to keep their drivers and products from being targeted.
Hi!Similar experience at drug store (walgreen). Half the merchandise was locked up. (Interesting, some $5 items were locked up while $15 things sat on adjacent open shelves.)
If you wanted to buy anything you had to find a clerk to unlock and release it. But the store has been famous for years for being very short-staffed. Your chances of finding a clerk with a key are about the same as finding the gold pot at the end of the rainbow.
If you succeed in either finding that ephemeral clerk or else breaking the desired piece of trash out of its prison by any other means, you still have to pay for it. At the cash register, the clerk will “test” your $20 bill, this takes place in front of all the other customers to portray you as a crook.
The recent sign someone posted fits these ridiculous conditions to a T, “
“If I could counterfeit currency, what makes you think I’d be shopping at Dollar Saver?”
No, dear reader, this is not Brazil, Venezuela, or the backwaters of Tijuana.
This is your country.
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