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Jacoby Gunn, a street cleaner and neighborhood peacekeeper with Readi Chicago, peeked into the store Thursday. “I don’t understand why they had to move everything to the back at just this store. … There’s crime everywhere,” Gunn said. “It’s racial profiling. Why don’t you trust your customers?”
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The new signs on the display counters that are still open say “Grab and Go”.. They forgot to say “Pay”, but must be that’s not required.
The dindu’s will have to find a new place to shop(lift).
Would expect a stiff mark-up on merchandise to pay for the new store build-out, increased staff, and double-handling of merchandise.
Perhaps Walgreens should emulate Costco, where a membership card must be presented for entry, a receipt for exit, and only shrinkage that occurs is done with employees’ cooperation.
Aw, this is racis….
Yeah, the gimme free crowd was never going to embrace this new “concept” store design. The “concept” being, we can’t afford to let the overwhelming criminal element in the hood steal everything that isn’t nailed down. Retailers will continue to flee the hellhole known as Chicago, forcing the lazy hoodlums to carjack rides to the suburbs where they’ll have to take their chances against police departments that don’t subscribe to the Lil Kim Foxx and Here Come Da Judge Evans approach to criminal justice, which is essentially, there’s no such thing as a bad boy of color. The punks will… Read more »
How could any small retailer aford to do what Walgreens is doing? if this is what a Walgreens is doing in Loop, think of what retailers are under pressure to do in low-income “food desert” neighboorhoods? The Kim Foxx & CO retail experience Chicago style…..EQUITABLE!!!
So instead of arresting and prosecuting thieves, businesses have to resort to an updated version of Service Merchandise style shopping.
We had Service Merchandise in Detroit in the 80s too. Occasionally I could get a good on something.
I’ll give Walgreens credit for making a hail mary attempt to stay in the neighborhoods and serve residents, because I guarantee that the other option the C-Level execs discussed was vacating decaying urban areas entirely. These stores have become an international news story, all about ridiculing Chicago’s crime policies, so the concept kinda backfired.
Walgreens should just close the store like so many other store owners have done.
Let the government run stores where inventory shrinkage takes place.
You can thank lazy useless shit-bird fake prosecutor Kim Foxx for this — by decriminalizing shoplifting, stores must now either make changes like this — or dump Chicago altogether — like so many other companies have done