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I could see some of these stores going to having a sealed off area like they do the pharmacy where you buy those high theft items separately.
The big challenge is that if you don't enforce the law with penalities, whatever avenue you close to theft just means they have to steal somewhere else for drug money etc. You make in store theft vanish over night, you'll have more parking lot assaults, muggings, home invasion, package theft etc. etc.
Yes, I suspect shelves will be stocked with demos which have a bar code. The high theft items will be scanned and paid for before a clerk collects them from a secure area.
But when the gravy train ends and thieves find their local fence isn’t interested in magazines or snacks. I also won’t be suprised if assaults/robberies start to climb.
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So petty theft of everyday items people use is up...really up to the point they are locking them up.
And then we get the politicians cheering that everything is great.
The stores aren't causing this hardship for you.
The people are and the stores are reacting to keep their merchandise from being stolen.
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The Return of Urban Retail Deserts
...Stores fleeing from rising theft will leave residents in cities like New York with fewer places to shop, less merchandise to buy, and higher prices to pay.
Nearly 30 years ago, policymakers began describing communities that lack essential retailers, especially supermarkets, as “deserts.” Some went further, branding the problem as “retail apartheid,” a phrase that implied that stores were purposely discriminating against neighborhoods because of their residents. Local government tried a host of policies to lure stores, from incentives to public browbeating; what ultimately worked was neighborhood revivals spurred by declining crime.
We seem on the verge of a new era of retail deserts. It will be harder, however, for policymakers to blame this sad reversal on racial discrimination or reluctance by firms to do business in certain neighborhoods. America’s major stores have shown themselves more than willing to invest in urban communities. A problem caused by bad public policy is driving them away. Shoppers and residents are the losers. https://www.city-journal.org/article...retail-deserts
When you teach young people they are owed something because of their race, and when you teach them that the police are bad people that should be defunded.
This is the logical outcome.
Duhhhhhhhh.
Such a simple concept, a caveman would get it. Unfortunately, the typical democrat doesn't.
When you teach young people they are owed something because of their race, and when you teach them that the police are bad people that should be defunded.
This is the logical outcome.
Duhhhhhhhh.
Or…
when large retailers and politicians employee young people of a certain race to be the foot soldiers in their insurance fraud schemes this is the logical outcome.
Sad but predictable, stores may soon look like a museum as retailers are forced to lock up everything behind glass to combat all this theft.
They opened the border now what do they expect, these people steal every single day to live, it's their way of life....
they own a primitive culture, however, American's believe they think and feel like we do.....
when large retailers and politicians employee young people of a certain race to be the foot soldiers in their insurance fraud schemes this is the logical outcome.
lol - put down the crack pipe and walk away from the keyboard. I'd ask what evidence you have of your irrational claim, but I'm sure you don't have a valid source..
If you go to other countries, for example in Europe, very little to nothing is locked up. I recently spent a month in Europe and only saw one store that had personal care products locked up. And it wasn't socks or toothpaste. It was expensive beauty products locked up. Which makes sense.
I just went to a Walmart yesterday in red state Missouri where the freaking dishwashing detergent (Palmolive, Dawn) was locked up. As well as air fresheners, laundry detergent, body wash, shampoo, you name it, it was locked up.
There is something very wrong in America and it has nothing to do with political party. It has to do with the fact that wages have not kept up with cost of living FOR DECADES. It has to do with the fact that this country is becoming unaffordable for a wide swath of Americans. Because of this, there will be so much stealing that law enforcement won't be able to keep up with it and we won't have the space in prisons to lock up all the offenders either.
We are looking at a future of very rich (ordering everything online) and very poor people living in their cars or in tent encampments (stealing from the remaining physical retail stores left). Just like so many of the banana republics we have always mocked. And few bricks and mortar stores for the rest of us who don't steal.
The middle class in America will have to find another country where they can actually afford to feed their family, pay for school, buy a car, and buy a home. America is no longer it.
If you go to other countries, for example in Europe, very little to nothing is locked up.
Well, that's no different from where I live in (85205.) Very little is locked away.
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]I just went to a Walmart yesterday in red state Missouri where the freaking dishwashing detergent (Palmolive, Dawn) was locked up. As well as air fresheners, laundry detergent, body wash, shampoo, you name it, it was locked up.
Are you suggesting such items are being stolen because people can't afford them?
Or they are being stolen and sold to a fence because it's a way to earn money and help put food on the table?
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