NEW YORK - Like drug stores locking up toothpaste, your local grocery store might have to start locking up meats and vegetables due to rampant shoplifting.
"People have no fear of coming to your store and stealing," Nelson Eusebio of the National Supermarket Association.
No, your title is very telling. There are (at least!) two very different Americas. Probably not as binary as blue cities/red suburbs, but, yeah, kinda. Goes even further into shades of gray as you get out into the country/rural areas, and another gradient north to south. My sister lives in a nice suburb in NorVA, and its nothing like the nice suburbs here in EastTN. Get out of the cities, now. Sell at a loss, leave half your shit behind, gtfo.
I lived in South Minneapolis during the G.F. mostly peaceful riots. After things settled down, most if not all retail and pharmacy stores etc., put most of their items behind locked cabinets.
I joke with the workers at the door at my local Publix. There is a fire extinguisher there and I tease them that they are guarding the fire extinguisher. One of the cashiers told me that if somebody was not at the door the store would loose up to a couple hundred dollars every hour.
I spent several years in the UK, they have a retailer named Argos who sell online or, you go to a storefront and look through catalogs. Go up front and pay and your order will come out on an airport type conveyor. No one gets a chance to shoplift. I think this is where we’re headed.
Back in the 80s in the US there was a chain Service Merchandise that had a similar setup. I understand the big camera stores in NY city (B&H etc) do that too.
Why do they call them people? Pavement apes maybe, but certainly not people.
ReplyDeleteNo, your title is very telling.
ReplyDeleteThere are (at least!) two very different Americas. Probably not as binary as blue cities/red suburbs, but, yeah, kinda. Goes even further into shades of gray as you get out into the country/rural areas, and another gradient north to south. My sister lives in a nice suburb in NorVA, and its nothing like the nice suburbs here in EastTN.
Get out of the cities, now. Sell at a loss, leave half your shit behind, gtfo.
I lived in South Minneapolis during the G.F. mostly peaceful riots. After things settled down, most if not all retail and pharmacy stores etc., put most of their items behind locked cabinets.
ReplyDeleteI joke with the workers at the door at my local Publix. There is a fire extinguisher there and I tease them that they are guarding the fire extinguisher. One of the cashiers told me that if somebody was not at the door the store would loose up to a couple hundred dollars every hour.
ReplyDeleteI spent several years in the UK, they have a retailer named Argos who sell online or, you go to a storefront and look through catalogs. Go up front and pay and your order will come out on an airport type conveyor.
ReplyDeleteNo one gets a chance to shoplift. I think this is where we’re headed.
Back in the 80s in the US there was a chain Service Merchandise that had a similar setup. I understand the big camera stores in NY city (B&H etc) do that too.
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