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As the real impact is to legit staff and/or shoppers that have to deal with this sh1t regularly as well as the community especially those that rely on those neighborhood stores  :idiot2::

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NYC grocery stores consider locking up food due to rampant theft; workers are 'traumatized'


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."

The industry is banding together to form a coalition called Collective Action to Protect our Stores (CAPS).

The coalition is led by the independent supermarkets of the National Super Market Association and the founding members are the National Supermarket Association, the Bodega and Small Business Group, and the Metro Supermarket Association.

"Retail theft is a significant issue in New York, and owners and operators of supermarkets, bodegas, and other stores are thinking about customer safety and their own well-being then they consider ideas like this," CAPS told Fox News Digital. "We formed Collective Action to Protect our stores because this is a crisis, and we need the state, city, District Attorneys and other New York leaders to start acting like it."




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Here's one of the impact as a result of those selfish FRAUDs' "negative" behaviors:

Consumers will have to pay higher prices for products to compensate for the loss of revenue from shoplifted products. Security measures may have to be increased at stores, creating a less inviting environment for customers and decreasing the ability of a shop to connect with customers.



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