I have seen video of some gas stations in Detroit that have every item behind the counter. You can’t even go in and grab a Snickers bar. Shame when it has to come to that. Compare that to Japan where people won’t even pick up a wallet on the ground because they think it is a violation of privacy.
>>I have seen video of some gas stations in Detroit that have every item behind the counter.
I remember some city where the convenience stores not only had stuff behind the counter, but had their counter space encased in bullet-proof glass to protect their employees from armed robberies. So the city made them take down the bullet-proof glass.
I have seen video of some gas stations in Detroit that have every item behind the counter. You can’t even go in and grab a Snickers bar.
And in Philadelphia where they had bullet proof glass with all the items behind them, the city forced the store owners to remove it because it was “disrespecting” the “community”.
Having lived in a 3rd-world country, that’s how I did my grocery shopping.
Walk up to a counter which 99% of the time was at the storefront sidewalk or just inside a vestibule. Tell the shop owner what you wanted and if there was more than one brand of a product, they’d show them to you. Rinse and repeat until you got everything you needed.
It was extremely inefficient and slow and it looks like that’s where we’re headed. I’ve noticed more and more shops like this in Seattle and Portland. The homeless have made many businesses put everything in locked display cases or only empty packages are out and you carry the empty package to the cashier. Weird stuff.
I live in a county that is now majority minority (45% white, 50% hispanic, 5% asian and black). Our two local Walmarts have recently isolated the makeup where you cannot leave the makeup area with product without paying right there. One store removed self-checkout. We were in that store two Saturdays ago and we must have been the only white people in the whole place. My wife commented that there were hundreds of single migrant men...no wives, no children, just hundreds wandering around in groups of 3-5 men.
According to the latest census, almost every town in one 60 mile stretch along the freeway is 95% hispanic.