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A generous columnist believes that CVS Anti-theft measures Separating customers.
The columnist Matt Bai, who contributed to the Washington Post, on Monday argued that the efforts of the drug store to prevent theft could lead to more benefit from theft.
“As you must have read, CVS and other pharmacies have fought to increase theft by rapidly growing thieves gangs. Unfortunately for CVS, the solution may be worse for business than organized shopkeepers,” He has written.
In recent years, CVS and other similar drug stores have experienced an increase in continuous, organized theft, especially in major American cities where crime has increased.
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Man pressing button for employee assistance in locked merchandise, CVS Store, Queens, New York. (By photo: Getty images through Lindsay Nicolson/UCG/Universal Image Group Group) (Getty image through Lindsay Nicholson/UCG/Universal Image Group)
For example, a group of dozens of school children Regular sabotage And during 2023, Washington, DC’s Columbia Heights looted a CVS in the neighborhood.
Fox 5 said in October that year, “A large group of children, such as 45 or more, before school, after school and late night go to steal chips and drinks.” “They throw food and beverages on the ground and stomp on them, causing a big mess.”
A recent survey of the National Retail Federation found that 70% of retail vendors Organized retail theft believes Has become a more popular issue in recent years. As a result of these and similar crimes, large chain stores such as CVS and others have been forced to close the goods behind glass and plastic barriers to protect it from stolen from shelves.
But the Washington Post columnist complained that these obstacles have changed their “comfort” CVS shopping experience.
“I do not come back just because it is convenient, but because it is comfortable. I like to roam in deserted corridors at night and consider innumerable methods in which the reward of the 21st century pharmacology can improve my life. What if my hands can really be moist?” Can my hands be moist? Vitamin’s combination string stringing principle can increase my opportunities? ” Bai asked.
“Now except I stand in front of the oral care corridor, and something has changed,” he continued. “In fact, all the mysterious products are now attached to the glass. It is as if someone has changed the CVS that I knew in a museum in the US Pharmacy; the only thing missing from the lifelike diarrma is a wax employee with a pricing gun.”
A CVS store in DC’s Colombia Heights neighborhood was being vandalized during 2023. Customers had expressed concern about the location on the 14th Street, when the shelves were completely evacuated. (Screenshot Fox 5DC)
He referred to feeling the “pressure” to be a store clerk, so that he could open an attachment to see a product she did not decide to buy while she was standing next to her. He also mentioned that when he had to return the products later, he was asked if he had opened them. When he said that he did not, he asked the cashier “Chikali”, “Are you lying?”
“I probably be angry with this, but I am not. If the body lotion is so valuable that it is to be placed in a glass vault, I think it wonder what kind of game I am running. Also, I seem suspiciously well hydrated,” he commented on what is the reason for this new atmosphere in CVS.
“A small research tells us what is happening here. As you must have read, CVS and Other pharmacies Rapidly growing thieves are struggling to increase theft by gangs. Unfortunately for CVS, the solution may be worse for business than organized shopkeepers, “he said,” According to a recent survey, less than 1 of the 3 shopkeepers in CVS are ready to roam once, when they realize that the items they want is behind the glass. ,
Bai said it is combined with the fact that “a lot of online sites” are offered more cheap and firmly, “, and that it makes the series unique.
“What the series of your neighborhood can offer, it’s a chance to wander from a corridor and suddenly some new, cucumber-suggested solution of a problem has been found that you did not know that you had. This is a possibility shop.”
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A CVS store at Washington DC is seen in October 2023 with bare shelves, as a group of teenagers vandalized the pharmacy chain. (WTTTG-TV)
The columnist then gave her advice to the store.
“If I was driving CVS, I think I would like to invest in a little long-term security guards and sales clerks, who can help preserve the experience of retail search. As it stands, however, I can’t go back,” he said. “Life is full of stressful decisions that you regret. Body wash should not be one of them.”
The CVS representative immediately did not respond to Fox News Digital’s remarks request.
