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Shoplifting threatens closure of SE DC grocery store, creating potential food desert (Washington DC)
ABC7 WJLA ^ | 8-11-23 | Nick Minock

Posted on 08/12/2023 2:05:54 PM PDT by dynachrome

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To: dynachrome

I worked for a major retailer many years ago. They told us to deter shoplifters with a warning shot in the back of the head. I think it was a joke, but I’m not positive.


21 posted on 08/12/2023 2:22:05 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: dynachrome

Now they’re forced to carjack someone in order to do their stealin’.


22 posted on 08/12/2023 2:22:18 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: TexasM1A

Gas stoves in action. Ban them!


23 posted on 08/12/2023 2:22:23 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: dynachrome

They deserve their food deserts. Crap like that doesn’t happen in small towns because people don’t allow it to happen. It’s sickening to think there are so many people that live so close together in big cities that they are incapable of banding together to do the most basic things, like eliminating drug dealers, prostitutes, cleaning vacant lots, cleaning their own properties, stopping shoplifting and every other minor crime. Why can’t they find a mob of good people to thwart the mobs of bad people? (That’s a rhetorical question)


24 posted on 08/12/2023 2:22:28 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: dynachrome

Yet another example of the lack of enforcing laws on the books.


25 posted on 08/12/2023 2:23:28 PM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: dynachrome

I’m way out in the Maryland suburbs, and we’re already a ‘drugstore desert;. The two nearby drugstores closed a couple of months ago due to shoplifting.

It’s creeping out of the cities.


26 posted on 08/12/2023 2:24:52 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: dynachrome

There’s no food deserts, only black neighborhoods.


27 posted on 08/12/2023 2:25:50 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Good idea.


28 posted on 08/12/2023 2:26:47 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dynachrome

Reparations. What is wrong with that?


29 posted on 08/12/2023 2:27:08 PM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: ealgeone

Don’t forget Gyorgy Schwartz and the WEF!


30 posted on 08/12/2023 2:27:12 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: No Party Affiliation

Indeed.


31 posted on 08/12/2023 2:27:45 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: dynachrome

I no longer care. The store would be smart to close and reopen in an area where police are allowed to arrest the thugs and the judges sentence them to prison time. Also, clerks should be allowed three free whacks with a bat or 2x4 to each shoplifter caught. More if it is a repeat shoplifter.


32 posted on 08/12/2023 2:28:28 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: TexasM1A

No doubt!


33 posted on 08/12/2023 2:28:31 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: dynachrome

“We kept taking a dump in our water well to protest white racism!”

“You white racists! How come we don’t have safe drinking water?”


34 posted on 08/12/2023 2:28:40 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: dynachrome
They created this problem, now deal with it.

I need to find a small town out in the middle of nowhere to retire to, get away from that kind of madness.

35 posted on 08/12/2023 2:29:18 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ConservativeInPA

“Why can’t they find a mob of good people to thwart the mobs of bad people?”

They view this as reparations. And there are way more bad than good in these communities.


36 posted on 08/12/2023 2:29:44 PM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: eyeamok

These business owners need to grow a spine and JUST CLOSE DOWN in the middle of the night without telling anyone.”

Closing a grocery store is very easy.

You just call the manager and employees in the middle of the night and tell them you are not paying them any more—they are fired.

Let the looters take care of the rest.


37 posted on 08/12/2023 2:30:45 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: dynachrome
It's systemic racism.

Since the system is run in DC under Bowser, it is systemic racism operated by a black female Democrat. And atop the heap, the very white supremacist, Dementia Joe, operating Demcrat systemic racism.

38 posted on 08/12/2023 2:31:09 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: devane617

I seldom hear of them shoplifting actual food unless it is expensive meats. Usually it is cigarettes, make-up, Tide, Pampers, and other such resalable products.

Does anyone ever hear of anyone stealing a bag of potatoes and a handful of squash?


39 posted on 08/12/2023 2:32:39 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: dynachrome

Feral dogs will hunt elsewhere.


40 posted on 08/12/2023 2:32:49 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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