The continuing impact of rising retail thefts, and Montgomery County's utterly lackluster efforts to crack down on them, can now be seen at the CVS Pharmacy at 7809 Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Bethesda. Laundry detergent has been put under lock and key at the store, which was emitting an earsplitting shoplifting/burglary alarm on a previous day last week. There was no sign of police response to the store during that incident.
A call button has been placed on the detergent shelf to summon an employee - most likely the harried cashier or clerk. Montgomery County is hardly the only jurisdiction in the country to sit on its hands as new careers in high-dollar shoplifting, car thefts, and postal check washing are allowed to flourish unabated. The only crackdowns so far are on the law-abiding customers. If it's got to be clean, it's got to be Tide...and it's got to be unlocked before you can buy it.
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Strosnider's has little locks on shelf hooks. To get a better quality paint brush a clerk needs to unlock it. Learning
CVS needs to make up their mind whether they want to be an overpriced, poor-selection grocery store for poor people, or an up-and-coming chain of medical clinics.
Their laundry detergent prices are terrible.
In Biden's America. NYC and San Fran have put pad locks on every item in their stores practically. This is lawlessness and even Dems are starting to wake up. Biden may, for more reasons than one, not even be the DNC nominee. Good. Can't get much worse.
Stoppin' the riff-raff from "cleaning" out the store!
Who's really so foolish to think that permissiveness and mollycoddling will lessen this? The voter rolls, here, show who is so foolish.
Wonder who is buying this stolen detergent. Same question for those stolen catalytic converters. Let's work on drying up the black market profiteers. We don't need more guns in our stores to get that done. Just some good police work across multiple jurisdictions. Isn't that possible anymore. This issue won't go away by electing more MTGs or Jordans focusing on dirty photos.
1:22 is partially correct in that closing the black market on stolen goods is a good start. After that, they go off the rails on MTG who doesn’t come close in comparison to those who demand the book "Gender Queer" be available to public school students as early as the 4th grade.
Is there actually any evidence retail theft is increasing? I’ve only ever seen anecdotes. Media coverage always seems to encourage people to think crime of all kinds is getting worse. Murders, for example, are down significantly this in many major cities, but you would never think it given how this issue gets covered.
Depends on the year in comparison but the rate isn't down from recent data.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/
https://www.rila.org/focus-areas/public-policy/study-retail-theft-balloons-to-over-68-billion
@139 Do you think retailers spend money to lockup merchandise for fun? Too bad the Consul General for Japan didn't watch CNN's reports on the decline of crime or this might not have happened...
https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/japanese-diplomat-in-oregon-assaulted-by-woman-in-hate-crime/
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