Walgreens Closing Stores Over Shoplifting Fears

Some major retailers are concerned over what is being called “organized retail crime” where shoplifters are getting away with hundreds of dollars in goods with little repercussion. NBC News' Jacob Ward reports that the pharmacy giant Walgreens is now closing some stores in San Francisco due to the issue. 

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[cooblur]

No retail employee gets paid enough to deal with organize crime.

[blainemitchell]

This is insane. So they can just steal $949 worth of stuff and walk out the door with no one doing anything? I would close my doors too.

[TASconfidential]

If I owned Walgreens, I’d shut these locations down too.

[chicaddo]

I don’t blame Walgreens and Target for closing stores there.

[angelicjacobs]

The criminals in the security videos should not have their privilege of having their fades blurred. 😤

[hillerm]

Looting stores doesn’t alleviate poverty, it creates poverty. Now 50+ people are going to be out of work and there’s going to be a reduction in services available to those areas.

[mattm]

What I find more disgusting than the thieves and opportunists taking advantage of these asinine laws are the people defending them and the mayor avoiding responsibility.

[caliken]

Fears? They're tired of losing revenue. It's a good business move, actually.

[skytowergnome]

Stores don’t stay open when they can’t make money. They don’t make money when people steal things.

[davesunhammer]

Dude wants to blame Walgreens but wont come out and say it because he knows he is full of crap.
You can't blame Walgreens if employees are to scared to work in stores that are continually robbed.
That is a natural reaction to violence.

[bataremerson]

When a person is arrested over and over, slapped on the hand and let go they will keep doing this and more will join.

[solarguy]

When I was 8 years old, I stole a bottle of Elmer's glue at 29¢. I did it on a dare. 68 now and still feel guilty.

[middleguy]

The mayor and city council are blaming Walgreens saying theft wasn't that bad. You can't make this up.

[blackflyingfox]

This is what causes food deserts and why grocery stores won't open there.

[rawx]

Next changing the term "shoplifting" and "theft" into wait for

Undocumented Purchases.

[Boatfisherz]

I like how this story makes it out like it's just normal that people steal and it's because of addiction. HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTIBLE NBC, make these people out to be what they are, CRIMINALS. My Walgreens are really nice, very little theft, low crime and guess what, I don't live in a big blue city...

[gameofyou]

Blaming companies because city allows legalized theft. You can’t make this stuff up.

[pic]

The California governor should stop trying to pass laws about gender neutral toy aisles, and start passing laws to help keep people safe from thieves in his state.

[Brand-usuo]

"Crime has been falling steadily for 20 years. So this is not exactly a crime wave."
This is the problem. As far as the state and MSM are concerned, unreported or decriminalized crimes never happened at all. Their strategy for reducing crime statistics is to simply stop recording them.

[henrylivingstone]

Oh sure leave it to the “expert” to blame everyone EXCEPT the actual criminals. What is with people coddling criminals?