re: Chicago Walgreens debuts new ‘anti-theft’ store with just two aisles of touchable product

I've said for a while now that we are going to get to a point where retail stores are like titty bars. There will be bouncers at the door who check and scan your ID and then you sign your name upon entry.

Brick and mortar retail stores will get to the point where self-preservation kicks in. Either they will make changes that impact everyone, including the majority law-abiding customers, or they will close up shop and go to a strictly online model. They can only absorb the loss for so long and continue to have a smile on their face about it. They all eventually have to protect themselves.

I'm travelling for work and I was in Walmart the other night getting some groceries and I stopped in electronics to get the shortest usbc cable they had. It was $5 and locked up. I asked the lady to unlock it for me but she had to send for someone with a key: I got tired of waiting so I grabbed one for double the price that was twice as long because it was hanging outside of the glass case. Right then they walked up with a key so I hung the 6' cord back and they handed me the 3' cable. Then i was escorted up all the way up to the front of the store so the could keep an eye on me with this $5 cable. I had maybe $100 of other stuff in the cart that they weren't worried about and I could have grabbed the $10 cord and walked by myself, but the moment they unlocked that case, I became a flight risk.

I believe this will cause Amazon’s stock to skyrocket

This is the future.

SO works in retail management. They have to stand by and watch (on a daily basis) people come into the store, grab shite, and walk out. Trash is taking over, and the government caters to trash. Customers come in and trash fitting rooms and displays. They find dirty diapers tossed on the merchandise shelf. People try to return shite that they bought at another place, and then try to bully the customer service rep into doing it anyway (these stores need to grow some balls for these "wear and return" scum).

At some point, the stores are going to have to limit access to the merchandise. It isn't a race issue, either. There are plenty of scumbags of every race, trashing up the store (and it is a very nice store).

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I would love to shop at a "thieves free" store. I'd gladly show i.d. It would get the hood rats, meth heads and other vermin out of the store.

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umm. yeah. that’s not how it’ll work. you won’t be “shopping” at said store. you’ll do curbside or delivery, but never enter the store itself.

Whatever you do, don’t punish the criminals for this. Punish the stores with all the extra expense. Punish the employees with the extra work. Just don’t, under any circumstances, punish the criminals.

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Trash is taking over, and the government caters to trash.

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This is what every single Democrat voter votes for. This is the country they think they want to live in.

How bout Walgreens looking out for all the fine citizens of Chiraq with this soft rollout to familiarize them with prison commissary.

You always see the Hennessey locked up. I wonder why

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You always see the Hennessey locked up. I wonder why

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I wonder if they ever caught those women that stole all of the liquor from Total Wine and pepper sprayed the employees? They have them on camera