Frozen food customers in the crime-plagued city have been forced to put their purchases on ice and find a clerk to unlock chained coolers, as retailers take drastic measures to keep shoplifters at bay.
The doors in the frozen foods section at one local Walgreens are seen locked from the customers, who apparently need the staff’s assistance to access the products.
“Workers said normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream every night. They’re usually hit 20x a day. The whole store is virtually locked up,” KPIX’s Betty Yu tweeted Monday.
She also posted video of rows and rows of products – including household goods, cosmetics, and snacks — locked behind plastic barriers on the shelves, a tactic that has also been deployed at Target.
Another user posted a photograph of a padlocked ice cream freezer at a CVS.
“Night time trip to the CVS pharmacy to get medicines, and I witness police car in front called to scene because of thief. Of course many items locked up too like the frozen section!” @Tim_I_Huang tweeted Monday.
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