Posted on 09/21/2024 7:15:34 AM PDT by george76
I stay away from these chain drug stores. Their stuff is about 50% over prices at HEB or Walmart.
Dozens of juveniles on bikes ransack Pico-Robertson 7-Eleven store for second time..
https://abc7.com/post/large-group-juveniles-bikes-ransack-2-los-angeles-7-eleven-stores/15333295/
Completely mendacious lawmakers.
They are the ones who need to be locked up.
“Sacramento Sheriff Jim Cooper said deputies watched a woman take items off the shelves and return them at customer service, with no intervention by Target employees.”
Returns without a receipt? If true ... no need to haul items out of the store. Just take them to customer service and get cash. I think that’s what they’re saying. Crazy
It’s not shoplifting it’s open raiding.
“EXCEPT THE CRIMINALS!!”
Very well played and you are 100% right! Is there any more visible evidence of the rot and decay in our country than products being locked up in stores?
I went to Walmart-Mart a month ago for something simple like detergent. It took 20 minutes for the person with the key to the case to show up. I talked to the store manager and he said they have five people on the floor with keys and are trying to hire another five. TEN people with the keys to the kingdom.
I’m continuing to shift more of my purchases to Amazon. It takes seconds to order, the selection is bigger, and almost everything arrives within 24 hours.
To be buzzed in, please show your Costco membership card.
Up until about 100 years ago, one stood at a counter and told the clerk what to fetch.
All that ink spilled on this story and not once does the journalist say which group is primarily engaging in this criminality. Blacks.
Stores in San Francisco have been doing this for years - went into one supermarket where everything was behind plexiglass.
Unfortunate that it has to be this way, but the voters of Compton and San Francisco have spoken - that they don’t want shoplifters arrested and charged.
My own local supermarket (SoCAl) - I noticed yesterday has moved all of the laundry supplies, personal care items and baby products onto several aisles that are now blocked off with a one-way in and out door - with a register right there to check out those particular items. I’m sure it because of shoplifting.
Rite-Aid is swirling the drain anyway.
Here in southwest Florida NOTHING is locked up, anywhere. Left California in 2020 before the massive thievery started but I’ve been reading about it since then.
It’s part of Rite-Aid’s pilot Product Lending Program.
Imprisonment is costly.
What could be done instead is to chain one hand, run the chain between the legs and up the back to a neck collar.
How do they change their underwear and pants? They don’t. The pants and underwear get washed in the shower.
How do they sit on the john? The chain is of a length to be pushed aside.
What if they cut the chain? Imprisonment.
The IRS collects over a trillion dollars a year via the threat of imprisonment.
Blacks and assorted meth and fetty heads of all colors.
In my part of Florida, Home Depot and Lowe’s lock up all the large copper cable and hand power tools. Walmart locks up much of its smaller electronics.
Stores in Blue-controlled areas already know that allowing people to pick up and touch items prior to purchasing is obsolete, and that sticking items behind locked shelves is STUPID AS HELL, due to the labor costs involved, not to mention ‘youths’ soon coming into stores with explosives to blow things open.
So the OBVIOUS solution, at least if they want to keep their store around, is to put their inventory in a vault, or something close to that - only accessible by the ‘back crew’, being workers who pick out the items ordered up front, and send them forward only AFTER the customer has paid.
Today’s ‘youth’ in Blue-controlled areas see the traditional style of stores no differently than we would see a bank with all it’s cash right in front of us, with their operational model being that we come in, grab a bunch of cash, then write a write-up a withdrawal slip for the money so that bank can debit our account. Banks don’t do that, but stores still do (in Blue areas), but not for long.
Wow, incredible. Thieves brazenly walk out the front door with stolen merchandise and employees are told to not interfere.
What will the clerk at that separate aisle do when some thief just walks by him or her and proceeds to the store exit?
That sounds like another unworkable solution.
The only solution is harsh and strict law enforcement and tough judges. We would need to double or maybe triple our prison capacity to hold all the criminals, but we could get a livable and civil society in return.
All of this started when the courts started ruling that the prisons were too crowded and prisoners had to be let go. Then California led the way with a revised law that set the amount of felony shoplifting at $950. But it all started with the liberal judges emptying the prisons.
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