Shoplifters Are Cleaning Out NYC Drug Stores (New York, York: lawyer, home)
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Shrinkage usually more from employee theft, not folks from da hood. But guess that doesnt fit OP political agenda. Need to pay employees enough so it HURTS when they are fired for stealing. LOL
I think you're wrong. Are you following the news?
You should read the big expose' in the Wall St Journal about organized crime rings causing an 86% increase in theft since 2016. It's behind a pay wall but here's a bit of the gist. https://losspreventionmedia.com/wall...expose-on-orc/
"In a page 1 article Thursday, September 2, The Wall Street Journal published a wide-ranging article exploring the impact of organized retail crime (ORC) on retail featuring CVS Health Director of ORC and Corporate Investigations Ben Dugan, CFI, who is also president of the national Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (CLEAR).
The article provides an inside look at multiple recent ORC investigations, including the 2020 $50 million case Operation Proof of Purchase that was featured in LPM’s November–December 2020 print magazine.
Other retailers mentioned included Target, Ulta Beauty, TJX, and Home Depot, who told the newspaper that the number of investigations into criminal networks “have grown 86% since 2016.”
CVS bought into the false BLM narrative last year and took a stand against “systemic racism” so karma is getting them with police and courts no longer caring when people shoplift. Systemic racism doesn’t make people shoplift.
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The senseless deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and many others point to the harsh reality of systemic racism. Over the last two weeks, we’ve opened doors to new and honest conversations both inside and outside
So this is a city-wide problem just because you say it's happening in your neighborhood too? I just said it sounds like mostly a Manhattan problem. Maybe for a few gentrified outer borough neighborhoods too, but that's about it.
Where have you all been? This is a major problem, all over the place and not confined to Manhattan. It's organized crime rings!
“They would actually go in, and take a gift bag from the shelves from inside the store, open up the biggest gift bag they could find and just start taking [items] off the shelf,” he said.
When authorities opened up an investigation, they learned the thefts were all part of a “sophisticated” organized retail theft enterprise targeting chain pharmacies like Rite Aid, Walgreens, CVS, Duane Reade and Ulta Beauty, Miller said.
The ring had drivers that would load up a car with five to 10 people and bring them to stores throughout New Jersey, Queens and Long Island to shoplift, according to Miller.
The stolen goods would then be taken to a stock room, where ring members packaged them up and sold them on eBay, he said.
“They would actually go in, and take a gift bag from the shelves from inside the store, open up the biggest gift bag they could find and just start taking [items] off the shelf,” he said.
When authorities opened up an investigation, they learned the thefts were all part of a “sophisticated” organized retail theft enterprise targeting chain pharmacies like Rite Aid, Walgreens, CVS, Duane Reade and Ulta Beauty, Miller said.
The ring had drivers that would load up a car with five to 10 people and bring them to stores throughout New Jersey, Queens and Long Island to shoplift, according to Miller.
The stolen goods would then be taken to a stock room, where ring members packaged them up and sold them on eBay, he said.
This stuff is not happening around my way like that
I'll guess I'll make a post when it does
Only thing I've significantly noticed is a decrease in juiceboxes since school started
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We are now in a time where the chief law enforcement officials are telling you from the Get Go what crimes you CAN commit without going to Jail. CLOWN WORLD.
We are now in a time where the chief law enforcement officials are telling you from the Get Go what crimes you CAN commit without going to Jail. CLOWN WORLD.
They want this dude, and if not, they accept it and act defensive when regular people are turned off by the current state of things (looking at you buddy...).
Best thing to do is just leave. I did that. But since I'm stuck being connected to NYC because of my kids, I decided to keep profiting off of its degenerate slide. Hey, the city has to be good for something right?
What, they're gonna retire off of stolen dedorant??
If that aint a LMFAO
It's not really that funny. I guess you can LYFAO if you want, doesn't make it go away or not be real.
Sept 2021
"Ben Dugan sat in an unmarked sedan in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood one day last September waiting for the CVS to be robbed.
He tracked a man entering the store and watched as the thief stuffed more than $1,000 of allergy medicine into a trash bag, walked out and did the same at two other nearby stores, before loading them into a waiting van, Mr. Dugan recalled.
The target was no ordinary shoplifter. He was part of a network of organized professionals, known as boosters, whom CVS had been monitoring for weeks. The company believed the group responsible for stealing almost $50 million in products over five years from dozens of stores in Northern California. The job for Mr. Dugan, CVS Health Corp.'s top investigator, was to stop them.
Retailers are spending millions a year to battle organized crime rings that steal from their stores in bulk and then peddle the goods online, often on Amazon.com Inc.'s retail platform, according to retail investigators, law-enforcement officers and court documents. It is a menace that has been supercharged by the pandemic and the rapid growth of online commerce that has accompanied it.
"We're trying to control it the best we can, but it's growing every day," said Mr. Dugan.
The Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail, a trade association, which Mr. Dugan heads, estimates organized retail theft accounts for around $45 billion in annual losses for retailers, up from $30 billion a decade ago. At CVS, reported thefts have ballooned 30% since the pandemic began.
Mr. Dugan's team, working with law enforcement, expects to close 73 e-commerce cases this year involving $104 million of goods stolen from multiple retailers and sold on Amazon. That compares with 27 cases in 2020, involving half the total.
Home Depot Inc. says the number of its investigations into these kinds of criminal networks has grown 86% since 2016. "The digital world has become a pretty easy way to move this product," Home Depot Chairman and CEO Craig Menear told investors in 2019."
This is good to know. I bring my toiletries with me from out of town so I haven’t had to step into a drugstore yet. I’m making good money from NYC so I’m not about to stop the money train however I’d like to minimize the taxes I pay, always try to avoid being a victim of ‘random’ crime and generally try to steer clear of the degeneracy enveloping the streets. Besides my office in the City and my parents place in Queens, I’m so done with doing anything else.
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