A desperate Walgreens pharmacy located in San Francisco is locking up frozen food doors behind chains in hopes to fend off shoplifters according to a recent report and a video posted by a CBS reporter named Betty Yu. The video shows the frozen food section with literal chains going across the doors and in the handles and locked together. This would likely keep the doors from opening all the way, even if they could open a little bit, but it could fend off the shoplifters who keep targeting the store, sometimes 20 times a day. It's amazing this store hasn't shut down yet, which would leave the community with one less pharmacy for those in need. Makes you wonder how bad the rest of San Fran is doing.
“...normally shoplifters clean out all the pizza and ice cream every night. They’re usually hit 20x a day,” Yu said in the tweet. “The whole store is virtually locked up.”
In the same store, many of the hygiene and cosmetic products are already behind locked plastic casing as an anti-theft measure. Even common household items such as cleaning and laundry supplies now require employee assistance to be removed from store shelves.
