San Francisco store requires customers to shop with employee escort to curb shoplifting
San Francisco stores are reportedly banning customers from walking around and shopping without an employee to curb “rampant shoplifting.” Frederiksen’s Hardware and Paint store in the city’s Cow Hollow neighborhood has put up signs saying it will only accept one customer at a time during certain hours to curb the ongoing theft. The store has […]
Not just California: Memphis area sports apparel stores terrorized by brazen shoplifting gang
By now it was a familiar sight: a group of seven men. went into a clothing store On Thursday, he robbed a store in broad daylight while wearing a face covering and left with an arm full of merchandise while the store was still open. But this incident happened last week in Memphis, not San […]
NYPD tests ‘old school’ tactics in the Bronx to combat shoplifting
The New York City Police Department in the Bronx has quietly begun working more closely with small businesses to combat the shoplifting epidemic, and local supermarket owners say early signs look promising. Last month, police officers at the 46th Precinct in the Bronx began handing out personal phone numbers to local business owners in a […]
Gov. Newsom pulls a Karen when Target employee blames him to his face for shoplifting epidemic: ‘Where’s your manager?’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) acknowledged Wednesday that he once sought out the manager of a Target employee because he blamed the employee for a shoplifting epidemic. Newsom spoke on a Zoom call with California mayors about what he called “my target story.” Newsom said she was in line at the checkout line at Target […]
Newsom Shocked to Hear Californians Blame Him for Shoplifting Problem
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday heard a Target store employee blame the state for a wave of shoplifting that has hit the state’s retail stores since the introduction of criminal justice reforms he supports. He said he was shocked. He told this story while waiting for a Zoom call about mental health reform […]
NZ’s ‘First Refugee Lawmaker’ Charged With Shoplifting at Top Boutiques
WELLINGTON (AP) – New Zealand's first refugee lawmaker has been charged by police a day after he resigned after allegedly shoplifting several times from a local luxury boutique. New Zealand Police said former New Zealand Green Party member Gorriz Ghahraman was charged on Wednesday with two counts of shoplifting from a store in Auckland's trendy […]
CA Targets, Walmarts Lock Up Underwear to Curb Shoplifting
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 […]