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Unless a weapon is used, and or armed robbery takes place shoplifting ranks low on NYPD call response time.
Stores will dial 911, and by time NYPD arrived suspect is long gone. That is unless store employees catch and hold, something not advised for several reasons.
Even when a store does make a telephone call, files report etc... In general getting many stores to press charges and follow through is often an uphill battle. Employees would have to go downtown to testify at arraignment, and trial (if there is one), and so forth. Since these shoplifters even if found guilty are back on street before their dinner is cold it really isn't worth anyone's time bothering.
This new "bail reform" simply doubles down on things....
NYPD commanders in various areas have gone on record blaming stores themselves for being "attractive" targets. Things like staying open 24/7, range of merchandise, etc....
Have been in DR where people have not only jacked the place, but came back to reload. Employees watched it all on camera and said/did *boo*. One AA guy had so much stuff he couldn't carry it all and hailed a taxi.
This is no different than looting except there’s no unrest.
Walking around UES past few weeks noticed what are left of 24 hour DR stores now close at 2AM, and reopen at 6AM as of September 1st of last year (according to signs in window).
Never noticed before since Rite Aid is my go to spot, and always assumed since lights were on people were inside.
IIRC the CVS on Lexington and 84th closes around 12M or so and opens up again early AM.
Guess these places are tired of being jacked (which happens a lot during overnight hours), and or costs of remaining open just didn't make it worth it after costs and all those thefts.
Or maybe now that there is more competition, they don't have enough customers to stay open so late.
Or maybe now that there is more competition, they don't have enough customers to stay open so late.
There has been a RA and DR across street from each other on Second at 79th/80th for years now, and both are 24/7. RA does a huge business to point shelves are often empty of things day after truck arrives/stocking.
OTOH DR across street is often empty or doesn't seem to do same volume of business, now why is that?
DR at one time had reasonable prices this even after they expanded beyond Wall Street/Mid-Town to UWS and UES; then they sold out to Walgreen's, and prices went through roof.
RA has great prices and while their bonus plan wasn't wait it once was, latest incarnation still beats DR.
We've compared, and when on sale RA prices on things like toilet paper, paper towels, coffee, toothpaste, etc... beat Amazon most of time. More so if you have their bonus card and thus get rewards back plus sale price.
I believe that there is a Walgreens in Forest Hills and even one of the CVS locations that are open 24/7 but I don't know if that includes the pharmacy section/s or not.
DR largely competed with itself, at least in Manhattan.
On UES they had one store on Third at 84th, another on Lexington and 84th, then another at 87th and Third. Now DR has closed all but the one at 84th and Lexington Avenue.
UWS was same, DR had stores literally around corner or just up block from each other; they started shutting down many of those as well.
^ It was sorta true in the City’s heyday (early to mid 20th century) because relative to the rest of the country (which was a lot less developed back then as compared to now) it was vibrant (in some areas) even late at night.
The irony is that now, things in the city shut down early while many rural areas of the country have supermarkets and Walmarts that are open 24 hours.
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