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2021-12-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Don Surber - Left denies there's a shoplifting boom

[Don Surber Blog] The Daily Mail reported, "A woman, armed with a pickaxe, was shoplifting at a Los Angeles Rite Aid.

"Shoppers videotaped the bizarre scene on Thursday as the woman walked up and down the aisles with the weapon in hand.

"She reportedly threatened employees and customers and warned that she would come back as she walked out with a basket full of merchandise.

"It comes as LA and cities throughout California continue to be plagued by robberies amid the state's zero bail policies."

There's your democracy. Californians voted to decriminalize shoplifting. Californians elected pro-criminal DAs.

Shoplifting and the outright looting of stores are rampant in California.

But just as the media called massive riots by Democrats in city after city mostly peaceful protests in 2020, the media is denying the theft.

In the epicenter of the new lawlessness, the San Francisco Chronicle is the bulwark for thieves.

It published on July 20, "San Francisco’s shoplifting panic desperately needs some context" by Adam Johnson.

He began, "You no doubt have seen The Video. A man, in broad daylight, brazenly empties the shelves of a San Francisco Walgreens and casually rides a bike out of the store with little intervention from a nearby guard.

"The lawlessness, the complete societal breakdown. A shocking sight that offends the basic notions of law and order.

"When I say you’ve no doubt seen the video, I am absolutely confident you have, because a recent analysis by the media watchdog FAIR found that the video — taken by ABC7’s Lyanne Melendez — garnered over 300 articles of media coverage around the world and millions of clicks, from the United Kingdom to Mexico to France and beyond.

"That’s a sizable amount of coverage, indeed, for a single instance of petty theft."

If someone stole his bicycle, I doubt he would consider the theft petty.

On October 15, the Chronicle reported, "Is shoplifting forcing Walgreens to cut back in S.F.? Data on the closing stores puts the claim into perspective."

Relying on city government data, the Chronicle claimed, "But the timing of Walgreens’ decision led observers to wonder whether a $140 billion company was using an unsubstantiated narrative of unchecked shoplifting to obscure other possible factors in its decision."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-27 07:21|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Watched the cops take a woman out of CVS in handcuffs a couple days before Christmas. Don't know if she was shoplifting, trying to pass a bad prescription, or what. But that wild-west business ain't playing here.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-27 07:55|| 2021-12-27 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 When was the last time anyone read about an Amazon delivery truck being hijacked ?

Your laptop is now your store. Order 'on-line' from Home Depot and your purchase can be picked up from an (outside the store) locker. Sears stores eventually became little more than ordering and pick-up centers as well.

The middle-man (brick & mortar stores) are rapidly disappearing. Once you hit the "Purchase item" button, you are dealing directly with the Chinese manufacturing facility. Shoplifters and 'smash & grab' gangs are simply facilitating the transition.

I am certain you are familiar with the marketing term...."Factory Direct."

Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-27 07:58|| 2021-12-27 07:58|| Front Page Top

#3 And this is a good thing how exactly? Amazon is exactly the kind of megacorp that nobody should be doing business with.

Why do you think Antifa/BLM are attacking these stores? They need to destroy small business, because SMEs are the foundation of strength for America. More closed stores, more unhappy people, more recruits for them. The Bolsheviks did the same thing with the Czar.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2021-12-27 08:09|| 2021-12-27 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 He's sayin' it's a bad thing, Hoib

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-27 08:11|| 2021-12-27 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, the writing may be on the wall.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-27 08:21|| 2021-12-27 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 More closed stores, more unhappy people, more recruits for them. The Bolsheviks did the same thing with the Czar.

The government after Nicholas II's abdication shared a significant culpability for the problems they created prior to the October Revolution.

Posted by badanov 2021-12-27 08:42|| 2021-12-27 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Is herb McCoy (r)?

Posted by Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-12-27 09:55|| 2021-12-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#8 It's difficult to succeed when people expect you to actually do something.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-12-27 13:09|| 2021-12-27 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 A large amount of Amazon sales are Amazon renting out digital storefront to small businesses.

Yes Amazon is evil and only looking for a profit, but it does seem what they do could easily be reproduced by others but so far nobody has seriously stepped up and tried.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-12-27 13:41|| 2021-12-27 13:41|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ GrubHub, Uber eats, etc gives brick and mortar food stores and restaurants door delivery nich that Amazon does not do.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-27 16:37|| 2021-12-27 16:37|| Front Page Top

#11 .
More closed stores

More homeless housing.
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-27 17:58|| 2021-12-27 17:58|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Ask, receive.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-27 20:03|| 2021-12-27 20:03|| Front Page Top

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