Like drug stores locking up toothpaste, your local grocery store might have to start locking up meats and vegetables due to rampant shoplifting.
"People have no fear of coming to your store and stealing," Nelson Eusebio of the National Supermarket Association."Our employees are terrified," Eusebio says. "We have young people that come to work, young cashiers who work part-time, these kids are 16-17 years old. They're traumatized."
"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 National Supermarket Association represents independent grocery stores in New York City. It's statistics show that 30% of its membership has left the city.Bodega and grocery store owners in New York City are demanding more help to combat brazen shoplifting that is endangering their survival.
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