Two major retailers in California's Bay Area are storing socks and underwear under lock and key to prevent shoplifting.
Target store in Richmond and another in Pleasant Hill have products blocked, NBC Bay Area report Thursday. The store also noted that customers were forced to wait significant amounts of time for employees to remove items from cases.
Similarly, Hilltop's Walmart tightly controlled its inventory of underwear due to routine shoplifting.
“It's what the ghetto looks like when you have to lock everything you have under your socks and keys,” one shopper, who identified herself as Olga Leon, told the magazine. Ta.
But stores across the country have decided to take similar drastic measures amid rampant shoplifting, with underwear being among the items kept under strict security, Breitbart News reported. reported on October 23rd.
Attention: In San Francisco, a crime-prone area, a large number of products at targeted stores will be sealed behind glass.
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Inside Edition's Lisa Guerrero recently tried to buy a tube of toothpaste in a case at a Target in Manhattan, the newspaper reported. But she and her team had to wait several minutes for workers to arrive and remove it from the case.
“In April, Breitbart News reported that Walmart, Target, Best Buy and other major retailers were closing some stores across the U.S. as they struggled with an increase in theft.” added the Breitbart News article.
the goal decided NBC Bay Area reported on September 26 that three Bay Area stores will be closed due to thefts that put workers and shoppers at risk.
Richmond City Councilman Cesar Cepeda said he is concerned that more businesses will close due to criminal activity in the Bay Area, a situation that is not good for nearby residents.
“Costs are going up, residents are having to pay more, commute farther to get groceries, pick up socks, pick up prescriptions, etc. “We're going to have to. It's going to be really damaging to our community,” he said.
In November, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper expressed frustration with a local Target that appeared to have stopped authorities from catching a shoplifter at a California store.
“We don't tell big retailers how to do their jobs, and they shouldn't tell us how to do our jobs,” he said.
Apparently the store didn't want to create a scene to avoid negative attention and press coverage on social media.
