On target to close? Shoplifters at San
Francisco Target strike every 10 MINUTES:
Helpless staff watch thieves stuff bags
with food, lipsticks and nail polish as
soft-on-crime city suffers retail exodus
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Joe Hutchison
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/11/2023 12:07:40 PM
Workers in a San Francisco Target store say they are being shoplifted every ten minutes, as the city faces an exodus of retail stores due to theft.
Employees say they have watched individuals actively 'shoveling' goods into bags before making off.
Multiple products including shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes and some foods are now kept behind barriers that require staff to open them. But other goods including trays of lipstick and nail polishes are being cleaned out by shoplifters on a daily basis,
Target which is owned by the Leftwing Dayton family (remember Sen and Gov Mark Dayton D-MN?) is kind of getting what they deserve. They have geared their advertising to attract the very people who are now coming to their stores to shoplift. People who were once Walmart shoppers.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/11/2023 12:25:44 PM (No. 1467734)
All of these stores which are being looted should do what the very high end shops do - keep the doors locked and only allow a handful of people in at a time. Then don’t let them out until they have paid. It worked during covid and it will work now - how many times did you stand 6 feet apart in a line at the supermarket waiting your turn to go inside?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Catfur27 5/11/2023 12:28:20 PM (No. 1467737)
This is INSANITY....Nowhere else in the World is open theft tolerated ...??!!.... SF is getting what they voted for.....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/11/2023 12:39:57 PM (No. 1467749)
If you're starving with no money, I can understand why you'd steal food. But who needs to steal lipstick & nail polish? HINT: it's a rhetorical question. We know who.
32 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/11/2023 1:01:03 PM (No. 1467761)
Target, a distant cousin of JB Hudson, is calling it quits. Wow. Once they were considered an upscale Kmart! Those who were alive in the previous century remember F. W. Woolworth's little foray into discounting with Woolco. Buh bye, cheaper ANYthing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 5/11/2023 1:09:11 PM (No. 1467766)
The person who stands at the Wal Mart door checking receipts and items purchased never asks to check mine. One day I asked why, and I was told that I did not look like a shoplifter. I wonder who they are targeting? Lemme guess.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MamaElephant 5/11/2023 2:38:29 PM (No. 1467807)
This happened to me yesterday at my local Target: I approached an open self-checkout with one item that cost $10. It was clothing, so I had to open up two tags to expose the barcode. Focusing on the tag, I swiped the barcode, and when I looked at the screen, there were over $110 worth of items listed - I noticed Maybelline and other cosmetics brands listed. I turned in confusion and showed it to the attendant, who immediately started looking toward the exit and beyond to the parking lot. She said she had been distracted by helping someone, and whoever was at the checkout had scanned and bagged all of their items, then walked out without paying. She informed me "It happens all the time" This was a high end suburban shopping area on the outskirts of a medium city. We are doomed.
16 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 5/11/2023 2:42:41 PM (No. 1467810)
Retail sales businesses cannot exist without strong enforcement of the laws against shoplifting.
SanFran is a literal open sewer.....with a large dose of violent crime.
16 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/11/2023 2:45:20 PM (No. 1467811)
At our local WalMart, they ask about items that are not in a WalMart bag.
As for the stores where Urban Thug Culture has displaced American culture, I suggest what #2 suggests, with alternatives
1) Order ahead and Walmart will put your items in your car, and 2} 'Window service', where you tell them or write a list, and they bring the items to the window.
What about 'kiosk ordering, like the burger joints are changing to?
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/11/2023 3:05:55 PM (No. 1467824)
Entitlement to petty stuff. Show up at biden's Delaware home (or obama's, the clintons'), and try to steal his stuff. Try it!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 5/11/2023 3:36:46 PM (No. 1467837)
I really hate those door checkers. I'm old, fat and slow. I've spent my whole life trying to make a good name for myself and am not going to risk it for some silly baubles. I haven't stolen anything and they know it.
Wal mart forces us into self checkout lanes where we are watched by cameras and employees like we are crooks, then they're waiting by the door to further humiliate.
I'm ordering more and more off the internet lately.
8 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 5/11/2023 3:39:10 PM (No. 1467839)
I"m sure people in many of these communities, they were complaining about the lack of big-box stores and chain grocery stores for decades only to now see them leave for essentially the same reason most weren't there previously - theft.
Today the theft is on a much larger scale due to the lax policies (won't arrest or prosecute any theft under $900) of these Progressive Democrats.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/11/2023 3:57:24 PM (No. 1467853)
As soon as they all get their 1.5 million in reperations, they'll happily pay for their goods, right?
11 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/11/2023 5:28:00 PM (No. 1467899)
We pay for the shrinkage.
2 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/11/2023 6:17:48 PM (No. 1467928)
Maybe Target could just stop putting the stuff on the shelves?
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 5/11/2023 7:40:31 PM (No. 1467969)
I think the name was LaBelle's - it was about 40 years ago - but they had one each of a non-functional display item. They also had catalogs of other, non-displayed items to look through. You told the worker which items you wanted, they told the people in the back, and your items came out on an airport-baggage-claim-type belt. You paid for them all once they all arrived.
Inefficient, but theft-proof.
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 5/11/2023 8:04:17 PM (No. 1467976)
RE #16:
Sounds like Service Merchandise. It used to work the same way. Only empty boxes and non-working displays on the shelves.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
NeonVortex 5/11/2023 8:43:33 PM (No. 1467991)
And when these retailers have finally had enough and leave, then they're called racists.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 5/12/2023 6:07:48 AM (No. 1468115)
The shoplifters know that chains like this will be pulling out of San Fran soon, so they need to move fast.
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San Frans***co.
Do they even have a visitors bureau anymore? Who would visit there or hold a convention there?
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