Photos by Stacie Joy
If you've been in Key Food on Avenue A at Fourth Street in recent days, then you've likely noticed an abundance of signage asking patrons to please use the baskets and carts provided...
... and NOT your personal carry-on or reusable bags...
Key management says these new signs are to "passively deter shoplifting." And the signs are definitely more passive than this move to stop a shoplifter at Key.
8 comments:
Stacie is such a Joy!
Saw a similar sign at Whole Foods just this weekend.
I've seen these signs in a couple of supermarkets recently. Then again, I also saw a guy the other day at the Duane Reade on 14th and 3rd wearing a trash bag and loudly emptying the contents of the beer fridge into another trash bag. I'm not sure telling him to please use a basket would have made a difference.
C-Town also has the same policy, not written, but I was advised verbally to do so. I assume it's a theft related policy. Also having the same written policy is Zabars.
They need to tag check bags brought in like they do in other boroughs.
It is definitely a written policy at C Town entrance, for many months now.
There have been news reports recently have stores rethinking self checkouts because of theft . I think this is obviously part of that. Using your own bag to shop and only partially emptying it out to check out.
Looks like Home D on 23st finally caught on to the self-checkout scams. Must have taken a brilliant mind that figured out after 15 years on the block that people scan a few trinkets and boost the rest of their more expensive shits. They now have checkout monitors that police your junk and make sure it gets properly scanned.
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