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.
Stacie is such a Joy!
ReplyDeleteSaw a similar sign at Whole Foods just this weekend.
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteC-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.
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely a written policy at C Town entrance, for many months now.
DeleteThey need to tag check bags brought in like they do in other boroughs.
ReplyDeleteThere 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.
ReplyDeleteLooks 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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