San Francisco Target Locks Down Entire Inventory Because of Shoplifting Crisis

Elvis Dunderhoff April 24, 2023

Utopia, here we come!

New York Post:

A San Francisco Target store has been putting all of its products on lockdown amid a shoplifting crisis that has crippled retailers in the Golden Gate City.

Footage of the store’s interior posted to TikTok Thursday showed aisle after aisle of toiletries and cosmetics under lock and key in the megachain.

While it’s common for stores to lock up small valuable items like razors, heaps of inexpensive large items like mouthwash, shampoo and lotion were also being kept out of reach from the grubby hands of would-be shoplifters, the clip showed.

The cosmetic confinement had been underway since at least October of last year at the Folsom Street store near the city’s Mission District, according to WNCT-TV.

The Bay Area has been especially hard hit by a national organized retail crime epidemic that ballooned during the COVID-10 pandemic, leading chains such as Walgreens to close five San Francisco stores there due to theft.

The National Retail Federation’s 2022 retail security survey ranked San Francisco/Oakland as the second most hard-hit metropolitan area from theft in 2020 and 2021, only behind Los Angeles.

The organization lists items like body wash and over-the-counter medication as items that are particularly attractive to shoplifters, who can often sell their stolen wares on the black market to smaller stores.

New York City crept up to third on the list in 2021, outpacing Chicago.

Seventy-one percent of retailers surveyed by the association said they had seen a “substantial” or “moderate” increase in organized retail crime, with 55% saying that policies that reduce or eliminate cash bail for non-violent crimes in cities like San Francisco and New York are to blame.

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Imagine thinking this is a crisis when China is dealing with a literal demographic time bomb.

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