Post by M. Hawbaker on Jan 11, 2023 23:32:05 GMT
Shampoo, toothpaste, and razor blades are all items that grocery stores have increasingly started locking behind counters. Soon, that list might include food.
"People have no fear of coming to your store and stealing," said Nelson Eusebio of the National Supermarket Association.
"Our employees are terrified," Eusebio continued. "We have young people that come to work, young cashiers who work part-time, these kids are 16-17 years old. They're traumatized."
The National Supermarket Association represents independent grocery stores in New York City. Its statistics show that 30% of its membership has left the city over the past few years.
New York City has been host to a spree of "serial shoplifters," men and woman who make a regular habit of bursting into stores, stealing as much as they can, and leaving. This has resulted in over 4,000 grocery stores calling for prosecutors to set bail for repeat thieves and to make assaults on retail workers a Class D felony.
"Everything that is cosmetics, shampoo, baby formula is behind the counters. It's going to be more and more of that happening," Eusebio says. "We're going to have an environment where everything is behind the counter and the shopping experience is just going to be gone."
www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-grocery-stores-consider-locking-220920961.html
"People have no fear of coming to your store and stealing," said Nelson Eusebio of the National Supermarket Association.
"Our employees are terrified," Eusebio continued. "We have young people that come to work, young cashiers who work part-time, these kids are 16-17 years old. They're traumatized."
The National Supermarket Association represents independent grocery stores in New York City. Its statistics show that 30% of its membership has left the city over the past few years.
New York City has been host to a spree of "serial shoplifters," men and woman who make a regular habit of bursting into stores, stealing as much as they can, and leaving. This has resulted in over 4,000 grocery stores calling for prosecutors to set bail for repeat thieves and to make assaults on retail workers a Class D felony.
"Everything that is cosmetics, shampoo, baby formula is behind the counters. It's going to be more and more of that happening," Eusebio says. "We're going to have an environment where everything is behind the counter and the shopping experience is just going to be gone."
www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-grocery-stores-consider-locking-220920961.html
My first job (1975) at 18 was in a convenience store. Lots of these went on there - some of the people really didn't have money for food. One young woman, probably early 20s, would come in & steal bread. She had young twins she pushed around in a twin stroller. I told the owner. He said let her be - she really needed whatever she took. Sad then. Sad now.