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It's been the case for quite a long time. Razors and blades are expensive and small so they get shoplifted a lot as the manager told you. I've worked in loss prevention before and the amount of $ lost from shoplifting is pretty staggering, enough so to hire multiple people to prevent it at the store and corporate level. (A lot of it happens from employees).
I was in my local CVS pharmacy last night and noticed that many items in the men's shaving section were now either in those secure plastic containers that need to be unlocked or where you have to take a slip with the item picture to the counter to receive it. One of the managers I know said it was because of shoplifting.
Are any of you seeing this in your local pharmacies? This seems to have arisen over the past few months.
Thanks!
It entirely depends where you live.
In some places this has been common for a long time, in others, especially if your state or local laws have decriminalized "minor" theft it may be a newer thing.
I mean, when you basically say you're not going to arrest let alone prosecute someone for less than $1000 theft, what does anyone think is going to happen?
You go in, steal in and post it for sale on ebay or sell it to someone that does and you get cash for meth etc.
I have only seen printer cartridges and pricey electronics or jewelry locked up. Where I live, I have not seen things like cosmetics being locked up though. There was a time when one or two pharmacies were locking up laxatives due to theft.
I've read about rather serious theft problems with laundry detergent, and I think some stores did have to lock it up. At one point, counterfeit Tide was being shipped in from China. It gives new meaning to laundering!
Shoplifting is America's #1 Property Crime
Average of 550,000 incidents a day, over 13 billion dollars a year... https://www.pricegun.com/shoplifting...SAAEgK9gPD_BwE
You, the honest shopper, pay for it in increased pricing, security, safety etal.
Here in Los Angeles its not just little pocket sized items in pharmacies but full size laundry detergent bottles, cans of instant coffee etc. The thieves know that the guard with tactical special forces gun rigs and body armor is not going to shot him when the alarm goes off as he walks out. And seeing its not a felony it is just a matter of time before the glass cases will get smashed like organized gangs were doing to jewelry stores during the George Floyd riots. And then the cases will get thicker and more delivery trucks will be targeted even if that is a federal crime and the US Attorney can snatch the case from a reluctant to prosecute state or local DA.
locking up laxatives??
Baby diapers are good to shoplift.
One obese woman shoplifted a frozen turkey bewteen her legs ,one man shoved a frozen lobster tail into another package labelled Okra !
I was in my local CVS pharmacy last night and noticed that many items in the men's shaving section were now either in those secure plastic containers that need to be unlocked or where you have to take a slip with the item picture to the counter to receive it. One of the managers I know said it was because of shoplifting.
Are any of you seeing this in your local pharmacies? This seems to have arisen over the past few months.
Thanks!
The razor blades (like Intuition, etc that are $20+) have been locked up in the ones near me for several years now.
It does rather sound like a self fulfilling prophecy, one way or another.
That is, make the product so difficult to get that the customer leaves the store and searches for it elsewhere......and they find it online, being sold by the thief of the store.
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