When I was 7 years old I got caught shoplifting at a store. I was really scared. Security called my Father to come and get me. On the way Home I was very relieved. I was Happy and smiling thinking I got away with it. I felt like I was smarter than everyone else. When I got Home my Father gave me the SPANKING of my Life. I never stole anything ever again. Smiles.
wouldn't it make more sense for your father to explain the logical reasoning as to why theft is immoral? it's not very hard to convince someone of that especially when they're your role model. physical beatings of a child aren't ok unless it's a very last resort. they can cause trauma and fk up the kids development. just because it stops bad behavior doesn't mean it's a good parenting strategy.
Corporal punishment is never the point. What it does is scare the living hell out of a kid long enough for them to mature and be able to realize that the action they did was truly wrong. This is actually quite necessary, especially these days, because kids simply don’t have the capacity to be empathetic enough to realize deep down that something is wrong. The smarter ones may intellectually understand it, but the reason you and I don’t steal is because it’s a poor show of morals. We have that higher level thought due to age, but many kids need that stopgap until they reach the level they can truly feel that it is wrong. Trying to reason with a child about morality is more often than not a fruitless endeavor- at best they internalize that YOU dislike it so they should stop, but not that they should stop for themselves.
Many years ago there was a "discount" store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada call Consumers' Distributing, many of their items were on display... behind the counter. To make a purchase, you filled out a small order form, presented it to the clerk who go into the back of the store to collect it. The clerk would put it on the counter for you to open and inspect, if you were satisfied, you bought it, if not, it went back into the box and back into the storeroom. They went out of business because there were bigger store where everything was on a shelf for you to see/handle, seems this would be a good business model for the Portland area now.
We had a Consumers Distributing too here in Brooklyn, NY in the '70s and '80s. That was exactly how it was run in my store as well. We may have to return to such practices again given the current climate.
This is what happen when you bust up labor unions, cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations while cutting social programs for the poor and working classes, when you defund mental health, when you bail out banks and corporations left and right but let the people starve, when you don’t raise minimum wage and of course definitely never have a maximum income so that executives’ compensation is 400x what the average worker makes, when you don’t have tenants’ rights or unions so that corporations buy up all the houses and raise the rent so high that it is unaffordable, all while brainwashing the “middle” class into thinking these problems can be solved with more policing and prisons, even though we have tried that for the past 50 years since the war on drugs started and it hasn’t done sh*t but make things worse. Be grateful they are just taking stuff and aren’t breaking out the guillotines and pitchforks….yet.
Lose a finger on first offense, a hand for second offense and capital punishment for their third offense. Swift trial and live stream every time someone is convicted and punished… Watch how quickly people stop stealing.
This is also the reason that Walmart is closing 270 stores. I have worked with visitors in retail in Hawaii for 40 years. The shop I worked in for 15 years expanded & moved to a newer, nicer location. Almost immediately the shocking, OVERT, unapologetic SHOPLIFTING by TOURISTS began! Its like they think everything is FREE. Yet they PAY for Airfare, Hotels, Meals, & Tours, but when it comes to paying for anything else, they feel "Entitled to STEAL!!" Men walk in pick up a pocket knife or piece of jewelry & just shove it in their pockets, not even TRYING to be sneaky! One woman in her 60's with a 5yr old girl came in, spent an hour in the store, and left with a shopping bag FULL of clothes & toys! The Police Station is directly across the street. The owners say that our shoplifting laws prevent prosecution due to the dollar amount that they are "required " to steal before the offense becomes prosecutable. Employees aren't allowed to STOP them! When asking the owner's Wife what to do when Shoplifters walk out with merchandise, she said; Quote; "We will just remember their faces and not allow them to shop here again."Most wear masks. They're TOURISTS (They won't be back)!! Theres no age or economic group, or ethnicity that seems to be more or less responsible, its more than HALF the people that come in. I guess they do the same behavior at home? Yes, those stores that sell the stolen items are places like; EBAY Poshmark, The RealReal, Tradesy, Depop, Mercari, Letgo, etc. Its too bad that these more expensive items cannot have their very own serial number (like autos have VIN numbers), that way buyers and the companies sponsoring the sellers can KNOW if something is stolen or not.
This is heart breaking. Our society only functions when bad actions are frowned upon and shamed, to the point that people are embarrassed to be criminals and even consume stolen gods. Unfortunately, we have lost such shame and will delight at low prices and think that we are clever and/or lucky. Not only shoplifting but also return abuse is pervasive and affects us all. People will return things they broke or use something for 29 days and then return it to the store for full credit.
I agree. A two Parent home where everyone is granted rights is necessary for a society to properly function but there are very few people who will put fourth the effort to actually raise human beings.
We lost our small, locally owned pet store due to shoplifters, the owner tried putting locks on the cages but it wasn't enough. She ended up just selling pet supplies online. It's sad it was a beautiful, creative store with lots of interesting murals and terrariums I used to buy as much as I could to support their shop.
There is a solution for some businesses. I live in Canada and in the 80s/90s there was this warehouse store called consumers distributing where you would go to their location, pick what item you wanted from their magazine and the clerk would send your order to the back warehouse. And the warehouse employees would get your item and send it to the front where you’d pay for it. Consumers disturbing sold everything you can imagine just like an Amazon warehouse.
We had a similar thing in the U.S. called Service Merchandise. Today it's even easier because you don't need a catalogue, just make your order on a computer and pay online, and tell them what time you're going to pick up the order. This is the only solution for Portland or there will be nothing but mail order.
And that's a workable solution for a business like Consumers Distributing. But this lady's shop is one that needs people to come inside and wander around. Her inventory continually changes, it's a consignment store. I'd bet most of her sales are not planned purchases. Sadly, her solution is taking her taxes and her jobs and going someplace where a business can be safe and profitable. Bad for Portland, but they keep electing people who implement these awful policies.
The only solution is to increase the punishment and stop making “plea deals” or reduced sentences for convicted criminals. I see court cases on RUclips all the time that infuriate me because the guilty people don’t get HALF of the punishment they deserve.😡
There's no point in making new laws if you're not going to prosecute the existing one's on the books. The laws haven't changed. The criminals haven't changed. The only thing that's changed is certain DA's that don't prosecute theft, which leads to more theft, and more brazen theft because we've proven we won't prosecute them. So pass as many do-nothing bills as you want, you're not the ones picking which crimes to actually prosecute. That comes down to the District Attorney and their "prosecutorial discretion."
in all states shoplifting is a misdemeanor. Depending on the value of the product, the worse you can get in Texas is 1 year and a 4,000 dollar fine ...but because of overcrowding, one gets early release .
Stop paying taxes to the government if they are not doing anything to help out these businesses. The government happily collecting taxes from people and businesses, but they want to defund the police and turn a blind eyes to crimes. If million of American citizens get together and stop paying taxes, the government will start doing something real quickly.
If I own a store and caught them on camera I would post there picture on billboards outside of my store to let everyone know who the thieves are. Call it the Shame of Thieves.
The shoplifting obviously not only hurts the stores but the customers too. Stores stop stocking certain items or lock them up. Then when I go to the drugstore or whatever I can't find anything or have to get them to unlock it. So I start buying everything online and local businesses suffer.
From Corporate America, and the highest seats of Government, Crime seems to pay off with little or No consequences. The only thing that seems to trickle down, is the lack of morals and having no shame.
Gangs and mafia did not start with the rich, very few 1% stab, shoot and murder. Portland has been known for decades as soft on drugs and prostitution, it wasn't the Corporates that promoted this.
@@KK-pm7ud you'd be surprised how many crooks are in corporate America, even politicians, who are prosecuted and get their hand slapped, witn little consequences.
To the Trolls. Explain your views of Corporate America with an explanation of the Corporation's response that poisoned a small rural town. Criminals should be prosecuted, Both the lowest, but more so the highest. Leaders of men should be held to the same as the lowest led. Why I said trickle-down. Lead by example. Corporations steal from all of us in their journey for the highest profit. If they spent as much on Safety instead of lobbying and buying Senators and Congressmen, prices would be lower, wages higher, and less pain and suffering. All Criminals should face judgment within the Laws of our Nation.
I dont support nor shop at walmart but I remember there was one in California in long beach. That location downtown in that city had so much theft they closed it after 4yrs
The Walmart on SE 82nd in Portland lost 5.8 Million dollars last year (have a family member working loss prevention there)mostly due to shoplifting‼️ That’s why they are closing. It’s out of control and something drastic needs to be done ASAP‼️ So sad and sickening‼️😤
Walmart has been underserving communities for decades with their low wages and Putting mom and pop shops out of business. While I don't want them closing up shop I don't exactly feel bad for them.
This is so alien of a scenario where I live in southern Indiana, I have never seen anything close to this type of criminality since I came to this country 45 years ago from Asia. And yet I cant help being disturbed and being empathetic to the plight of small business owners who worked so hard to make their dream come true on their own, only to be victimized by criminals over and over again. So shes right in asking herself what's the use of continuing this business.
Having start and run a small business, I can understand what she is going through. As I ran a service business, getting ripped off was harder. But there were those who would hire me out and not pay. Luckily, my expenses were low, it was much a loss of a day or two of wages.
I travel for work and I was in Oregon for a while. Let me tell you its a whole other world over there. The amount of homeless people is insane and it seems like criminals have more rights out there. I was talking to someone who grew up there and lives there and they told me that if someone breaks into your house you have to give them five warnings before you can even think to use your firearm like wtf.
Say "get out" 5 times fast and BOOM!!! Besides, the only witness is the robber. What they gonna say "I wasn't warned 5 times." ??? Five bullets say otherwise!!!!
Heart goes out to Miss Young. Seems this problem is only going to get worse. I like the idea that allows stores like this to have a credit card scanner to be able to unlock the door to enter. The scanned card is then processed to see if it legitimate - not stolen, etc. 💜
@Tom you are being too dramatic. All I am saying lives are already complicated for everyday folks. There are better ways to deal with these MINORITY miscreants without punishing the majority.
@@Mike-wc3jo You don't steal televisions and cosmetics if you're hungry. You do realize prices go up partly to cover the cost of theft?:$imple economics
I just had someone reply to a comment about closing of big stores saying that closures are not justified it is just greed of the corporate stores. This story is the truth and it applies to small businesses and large. Theft directly affects the bottom line and when it is organized, stores have to shut down.
When I grew up in the USA (in the last century) THEFT was just below murder and kidnapping on the cultural scale. In the UK you still have the "class" system and other influences, such as area where you can't drive down a street w/o getting your windows smash/grabbed. The BASE is different. But I don't know what happened in the USA: it's been a long time coming and to steal, is to deserve....PAIN. When I returned to Canada in the west stealing on a small scale is just across the board, and the culture doesn't seem to mind it. I miss the USA, circa 1970.
@@Gfysimpletons omg about the same as the U.S mate they are off the wall, other worldly BANANAS although as of yet... No teachers with z cups that I know of! 😂
I always thought shoplifting was something a child does till they learn their lesson (at least it was for me). Never would I have thought it would become a way of life for adults.
I work as an Asset Protection detective here in California. Holy crap, my team and I can grt up to 3 cases a day, and those are the ones we get. Seriously, if you want to open your own store, make your shop an online store. You seriously will not make money having a shop that is basically a sitting duck.
genius. .why are there shoplifting laws even in dark red states and cities ? because it happens everywhere ..being a maggot cultist doesn't stop someone from lifting...look what they did to the capital ..
Thieves in the US should have digits and extremities removed as well as violent criminals getting sterilized, it would make this country a better place, unfortunately in democrat run cities, street thugs seem to have more rights than law abiding citizens
@@azhariarif i am a female, and why are you acting like meaningful criminal penalty would need to come hand in hand with women being treated like pets? You seem to have reading issues, because I clearly wrote “positive things from a flawed place that can be pointed out”, not “we should have sharia law in America” or anything that suggests i was advocating for anything more than harsher penalties for criminals
Oregon and the US in general created this mess and allowed it to get worse. 20 years ago theft would land you in jail, incur fines and be banned from the store. Now, we can't do anything except rely on the crappy ineffectual legal system that is not designed to care. As a result, we are losing everything that made retail great. Such a shame. I loved shopping at malls.
I live in NYC and we have had many businesses close because of all the shoplifters. So many drug stores have closed it's pathetic. Thieves brazenly walk in and grab shelves of merch and then sit out in the sidewalk trying to sell their loot
@EJ Tattersall nothing wrong with 14 year old kids working, I started working at 10 years old, besides when I see videos of 11 to 14 year old kids attacking a elder lady and nearly killing her, seems working don't sound like a bad idea 😳
I live in Salt Lake City Utah, and just two days ago at Winco the grocery store I watched two very large security People run, well attempt to run, out of a door to catch a guy. One had the guy they were trying to apprehend in a chokehold. Then they dragged him on the floor in the front of the store towards their security room. Then as we trying to fight his way out of their hold one of the large security people physically laid on top of him to pin him down. that was just at a grocery store! Got the whole thing on video. Wish I could show you.
Place serial numbers and coded microchips (or codes on fibers of material) in high priced items, these then can identify if an item is real or fake, stolen, purchased or set to sell. These codes must be checked against a database before an item can be resold or purchased legally.
You're right. There is a certain group of people in today's society that has gained so much power that they truly believe that the laws do not apply to them and they can do anything they want to do because nobody will dare touch them. Anyone that tries to stop them gets hammered in court by the Antifa, BLM and NAACP lawyers who have unlimited resources. That's why it's getting harder and harder to hire cops because they don't want the grief or to do their jobs only to have some bleeding heart DA refuse to prosecute the thugs committing the crimes.
1350 - Another stupid racist codeword racists use to identify each other, ala 1488. This falsely alleges that black people in America are 13% of the population and commit 50% of the crimes. Racists use codewords like this because they realise that their racism gets them ostracised from rational society unless they hide their stupidity.
Was in the Hollywood West Fred Meyers early one morning watching a shopper near the exit door with armloads of clothing. She bolted out the door, alarm ringing, to a waiting car, no license plate, and no one stopped them. Soon, we’ll lose all stores not just Walmart.
This is unfortunate, but hardly surprising. Up until 2 months ago I lived just a few blocks from this mall. Garden Home and the SW side have dodged the majority of the shit that plagues Portland (mostly because WA Co. prosecutes!) for a while. But this cancer always grows, and it's spreading everywhere! Every time I see a newscast from PDX, I think of how fortunate I am that we were able to gtfo of there before we ended up losing as much as so many hard working people there have. There's no fixing a problem until you identify the problem. And Portlanders need to identify the ridiculous, woke policies that have been enacted in their city, and cut that cancer out. Lol...yeah...that'll happen!
If you think "policies" and systems, created on a table and hallways of a facade, by a bunch of retards in suits and ties, will solve the ills of your society, then I am afraid America will continue to descend into chaos and anarchy
This is why I didn't move there because I thought about building or business there but after finding out that there was an influx of liberals we negated you doing so. Thank God we were right sadly
It's always funny to watch these kinds of videos from Portland, because I know this is what they voted for. Now they can live in the cess pool they created. Haha
It really is a shame. Thieves don't even care if their faces are on camera. They don't see the hard work that goes into workers and owners operating stores. Legislation is only one way of holding criminals accountable. Authorities really need to hold the websites that allow people to resale stolen goods accountable. Authorities visiting flea markets and swap meets to verify vendors are selling merchandise they have purchased legally is another way.
This is actually a really good idea. Give high-end items a title, like a car. If you own a bag that cost more than $1k then you get a title with it, as example. The title has to be present to resale the item, just like a car. Otherwise it's no sale.
@@ChatBloom Portland PD helped me track down a friend who was missing all the way in Tennessee, because Nashville PD wouldn't spare an officer to do it. Our police are already doing their own jobs AND the jobs of other states who's PDs did not get defunded, then defunding is not the issue.
I work in retail and I see this all too often. The problem isn't theft. The problem is "soft on crime" laws when it comes to left. This nation wide "theft problem" would stop overnight if a Law was passed that gave a mandatory 10 year or more prison sentence for anyone convicted of shoplifting.
Hahahaha! The store I work for decided to install Self Checkout and cut employee hours to save money. Shoplifting went up 75%. Trying to cut costs is actually costing them.
@annacolleen That had nothing to do with it. Minimum wage was $7.40 per hour and went up to $11 per hour. The company was already paying $12 per hour, (lower than other companies in the same area), so that increase had zero effect on them or us. Greed was their only motivation. After seeing record profits from COVID for three years straight, my company thought they could make even more profit by replacing workers with machines. No lunch breaks, no sick days. So they installed the stupid machines and cut worker's hours in half. Companies will spend thousands of dollars to replace hardworking people instead of investing in those very people. So, when their money saving schemes result in them actually losing money, I laugh. They honestly didn't believe customers would start stealing from the unwatched self checkouts? They are surprised that with less employees in the store to keep watch and monitor the merchandise, that customers would be trustworthy? This is called shooting yourself in the foot. So yes, I think it's hilarious. Now, my company is desperately trying to get back the workers who quit over low wages and low hours. Hard to do when other companies are paying them more. It shouldn't take a crisis for you to realize the value in the people you employ.
Welcome to the land of freedom. It's human rights!! Free to rob, free to extort, free to squat. It's nothing compare to how much the landlords suffered. The moratorium is lifted, but the courts are not processing cases, or keeping cases going in circle.
@@luigi55125 so, not paying your rent and not abiding by your lease agreement is ok? Many landlords are locals who only own a handful of properties that they have worked very hard for. Even if you don't like the large corporation landlords, it's still wrong. If you don't pay rent you need to move out.
@@luigi55125 Right, just because other people work hard and earned a lot of money, that makes it your "Human right" to rob them. Landlords owe you your living style simply because you can't afford it. Business owners owe you a Prada bag simply because you can't afford it. America is a lawless piece of $hit democracy. N. Korea seems more rational in comparison.
As long as the criminals have more rights than the victims nothing will be done. You can't call the cops, they don't do anything. You can't even stop them yourself without being sued for racism, sexism or harassment. Never mind dream of doing something like having an armed guard that actually opens fire on a shop lifter if they get violent, not even with a stun gun.
This is a terrible shame! This is not the answer to whatever problems that are being faced. Online shopping is no better as folks will steal packages from your porch.
@@ksavage681 I don't agree with you. If that store was trully not profitable, they would have shut it down years ago. You have to look at the data to know for sure (merchandise ordered minus merchandise sold) and Walmart won't share that.
It would be some of the places they went to first. Destroy the local population, their angry kids grow up and break free of the education system and it’s a free for all. Y’all ever worked at a Walmart? 💀
The irony of items being made for $5, wholesaled for $15, retailed at $300 and then stolen and sold for $5 in drugs, sold on offer up for $100 and retailed at $200 from another boutique.
This entire epidemic falls squarely on the shoulders of Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt. He completely mismanaged the office to the point of negligence.
Damn, that really sux. When you have good merchandise, the only time you can trust customers is after they paid and left. I never trusted people walking around, just looking. Yes, I do judge. I would be a fool not to.
And I can relate to what you're saying. Having been in management, you get a good feel of when you think something wrong is going on ( not all the time but most of the time). And you are right. You get to the point that you can't trust anyone anymore. Even when I am out shopping in another store I still watch people and the way they are acting. It's sad huh?!
My daughter works at such a store, she said it’s illegal to call the police before the perpetrator leaves the store. So if you call the police you are the one committing the crime. It’s who you voted into office that are making these policies and preventing the police from doing their job.
Where I live (Ostrava, Czech Republic) it's not at all uncommon to see men's razors in anti-theft packaging. Apparently, that's one of those items that gets targeted by shoplifters.
Lower the retail dollar amount that qualifies for felony incarceration. Stop the revolving door of arrest and release. It emboldens criminals and allows them back on the streets to reoffend with no consequences. Keep the thieves in jail longer.
I work at a Kroger store in San Diego and the thieves mostly come out at night. They just stuff their back pack or coat like it’s a non issue because they know we can’t do anything about it.
I can't stand it when these reporters (and activists and politicians) try to rationalize high crime by saying, "Well, this kind of thing happens everywhere." You know what... it really DOESN'T happen everywhere!
This is what happens when people know there are no legal repercussions for breaking the law.
Democrats being Democrats
Nope. This happens when the black population increases. Look at the racial demographics of the areas these stores are closing in
@@cody4916 "A lot of crime is committed by blacks, therfore it's because they're black"...is that seriously the conclusion you've arrived at?
@@cody4916 Which is sad for decent people who are profiled and did nothing wrong.
@@cody4916 Woke liberal response...Maga Republicans and Putin made the Black community steal.🤡
If you're wondering why the only few Walmart in Portland are closing, this is why.
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If even Walmart couldn’t hire security guards to stop the problem, then it’s a hugeee problem
Perhaps as a boutique store in a small town is OK. Otherwise I would move to a red state. The blue states have a long way to go to the bottom yet.
Blame Liberal politicians, judges, lawyers… NO consequences for breaking the law = LAWLESSNESS and ANARCHY
@@kristenmarie9248 No, that's Target.
When I was 7 years old I got caught shoplifting at a store. I was really scared. Security called my Father to come and get me. On the way Home I was very relieved. I was Happy and smiling thinking I got away with it. I felt like I was smarter than everyone else. When I got Home my Father gave me the SPANKING of my Life. I never stole anything ever again. Smiles.
That's good parenting. 🙂
wouldn't it make more sense for your father to explain the logical reasoning as to why theft is immoral? it's not very hard to convince someone of that especially when they're your role model. physical beatings of a child aren't ok unless it's a very last resort. they can cause trauma and fk up the kids development. just because it stops bad behavior doesn't mean it's a good parenting strategy.
@@chrishayes5755 It just works ^_^
Corporal punishment is never the point. What it does is scare the living hell out of a kid long enough for them to mature and be able to realize that the action they did was truly wrong. This is actually quite necessary, especially these days, because kids simply don’t have the capacity to be empathetic enough to realize deep down that something is wrong. The smarter ones may intellectually understand it, but the reason you and I don’t steal is because it’s a poor show of morals. We have that higher level thought due to age, but many kids need that stopgap until they reach the level they can truly feel that it is wrong.
Trying to reason with a child about morality is more often than not a fruitless endeavor- at best they internalize that YOU dislike it so they should stop, but not that they should stop for themselves.
@@waleedkhalid7486 Totally agree.
Kids(brain) = Dog.
ps. They get what you say then 5mins later they don't get why they have to do what you said.
Many years ago there was a "discount" store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada call Consumers' Distributing, many of their items were on display... behind the counter. To make a purchase, you filled out a small order form, presented it to the clerk who go into the back of the store to collect it. The clerk would put it on the counter for you to open and inspect, if you were satisfied, you bought it, if not, it went back into the box and back into the storeroom. They went out of business because there were bigger store where everything was on a shelf for you to see/handle, seems this would be a good business model for the Portland area now.
I loved that place, got a nintendo game and watch Donkey Kong when I was a kid from there
@@RetroSega Me too, I miss that store!
We had a Consumers Distributing too here in Brooklyn, NY in the '70s and '80s. That was exactly how it was run in my store as well. We may have to return to such practices again given the current climate.
@John Hill That is how Service Merchandise used to operate.
They had one in Winnipeg too.
This is what happens when your heart bleeds for thieves.
Bleeding heart liberals! 🤔😉🤔🤢🤮🤢😳🥺😲. They sanction behavior that ends up determental for them. 😉🙃😉
This is what you get for defunding the police
@@ChatBloom exactly! This is the dystopia EVERY democrat has been working for!
This is what happen when you bust up labor unions, cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations while cutting social programs for the poor and working classes, when you defund mental health, when you bail out banks and corporations left and right but let the people starve, when you don’t raise minimum wage and of course definitely never have a maximum income so that executives’ compensation is 400x what the average worker makes, when you don’t have tenants’ rights or unions so that corporations buy up all the houses and raise the rent so high that it is unaffordable, all while brainwashing the “middle” class into thinking these problems can be solved with more policing and prisons, even though we have tried that for the past 50 years since the war on drugs started and it hasn’t done sh*t but make things worse. Be grateful they are just taking stuff and aren’t breaking out the guillotines and pitchforks….yet.
Exactly. Communist Democrat doctrine.
If Oregon comes up with a theft bill, it will be a bill to make theft legal.
Along with a hug and a kiss !!!! Because they have rights.
Out in the Woods the Thieves are never heard from for some reason 😫😫😫👍😆😂🇺🇲
Not as long as the same politicians are in power there! Need Republicans in there to change the bs
That almost wouldn't surprise me with the way things are going in this country right now. Sickening and despicable!
Lose a finger on first offense, a hand for second offense and capital punishment for their third offense.
Swift trial and live stream every time someone is convicted and punished…
Watch how quickly people stop stealing.
This is also the reason that Walmart is closing 270 stores. I have worked with visitors in retail in Hawaii for 40 years. The shop I worked in for 15 years expanded & moved to a newer, nicer location. Almost immediately the shocking, OVERT, unapologetic SHOPLIFTING by TOURISTS began! Its like they think everything is FREE. Yet they PAY for Airfare, Hotels, Meals, & Tours, but when it comes to paying for anything else, they feel "Entitled to STEAL!!" Men walk in pick up a pocket knife or piece of jewelry & just shove it in their pockets, not even TRYING to be sneaky! One woman in her 60's with a 5yr old girl came in, spent an hour in the store, and left with a shopping bag FULL of clothes & toys! The Police Station is directly across the street. The owners say that our shoplifting laws prevent prosecution due to the dollar amount that they are "required " to steal before the offense becomes prosecutable. Employees aren't allowed to STOP them! When asking the owner's Wife what to do when Shoplifters walk out with merchandise, she said; Quote; "We will just remember their faces and not allow them to shop here again."Most wear masks. They're TOURISTS (They won't be back)!! Theres no age or economic group, or ethnicity that seems to be more or less responsible, its more than HALF the people that come in. I guess they do the same behavior at home? Yes, those stores that sell the stolen items are places like; EBAY Poshmark, The RealReal, Tradesy, Depop, Mercari, Letgo, etc. Its too bad that these more expensive items cannot have their very own serial number (like autos have VIN numbers), that way buyers and the companies sponsoring the sellers can KNOW if something is stolen or not.
Next time you edit include paragraphs. RUclips is nicely formatted to 4 lines.
This began ages# ago when someone e said, "Thou$ shall not steal!!!"
This is heart breaking. Our society only functions when bad actions are frowned upon and shamed, to the point that people are embarrassed to be criminals and even consume stolen gods.
Unfortunately, we have lost such shame and will delight at low prices and think that we are clever and/or lucky.
Not only shoplifting but also return abuse is pervasive and affects us all. People will return things they broke or use something for 29 days and then return it to the store for full credit.
I agree. A two Parent home where everyone is granted rights is necessary for a society to properly function but there are very few people who will put fourth the effort to actually raise human beings.
I live in open carry country and there isn't even grafitti.. everyone is nice to each other.
This is your future learn to love it... THREADS
Especially when you have people in power who enable this, like AOC
@@mustangracer5124 What a shame, graffiti brings character. Only real cities have graffiti.
Even if they catch them the government just lets them go with a warning!
What are you going to do, lock them up and throw away the key because someone stole a used purse?
The government? 🤨
@@karlabritfeld7104 Draft them and send them to Ukraine just like what they did during the Vietnam war with those delinquents.
@@karlabritfeld7104You steal cut off the thieves hand on live TV. You murder hang ‘em high. You rape castrate.
Hard work prison for 10 years . Yes work prison
We lost our small, locally owned pet store due to shoplifters, the owner tried putting locks on the cages but it wasn't enough. She ended up just selling pet supplies online. It's sad it was a beautiful, creative store with lots of interesting murals and terrariums I used to buy as much as I could to support their shop.
boring comment. you must be a white rich woman with no life.
VOTE BLUE! NO MATTER WHO - TO ENBOLDEN THE CROOKS. LIGHT SENTANCES! VOTE BLUE!
@مريم قريشي
Her strategy WAS BEST - F it.
Don't feel bad this a VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO AREA. They are living THEIR dream!
It’s pathetic that even in India, Police security would be deployed outside the store but in States owner are forced to close the store
Let's Go Brandon did that!!!!!
There is a solution for some businesses. I live in Canada and in the 80s/90s there was this warehouse store called consumers distributing where you would go to their location, pick what item you wanted from their magazine and the clerk would send your order to the back warehouse. And the warehouse employees would get your item and send it to the front where you’d pay for it. Consumers disturbing sold everything you can imagine just like an Amazon warehouse.
That’s how you order material at supply houses for most professions I remember seers being that way too
We had a similar thing in the U.S. called Service Merchandise. Today it's even easier because you don't need a catalogue, just make your order on a computer and pay online, and tell them what time you're going to pick up the order. This is the only solution for Portland or there will be nothing but mail order.
simple solution: someone steals you touch them wit teh jab, then fill the room with uppercuts
And that's a workable solution for a business like Consumers Distributing. But this lady's shop is one that needs people to come inside and wander around. Her inventory continually changes, it's a consignment store. I'd bet most of her sales are not planned purchases. Sadly, her solution is taking her taxes and her jobs and going someplace where a business can be safe and profitable. Bad for Portland, but they keep electing people who implement these awful policies.
The only solution is to increase the punishment and stop making “plea deals” or reduced sentences for convicted criminals. I see court cases on RUclips all the time that infuriate me because the guilty people don’t get HALF of the punishment they deserve.😡
There's no point in making new laws if you're not going to prosecute the existing one's on the books. The laws haven't changed. The criminals haven't changed. The only thing that's changed is certain DA's that don't prosecute theft, which leads to more theft, and more brazen theft because we've proven we won't prosecute them. So pass as many do-nothing bills as you want, you're not the ones picking which crimes to actually prosecute. That comes down to the District Attorney and their "prosecutorial discretion."
our forefathers never meant for lawmaking to be a full-time job
in all states shoplifting is a misdemeanor. Depending on the value of the product, the worse you can get in Texas is 1 year and a 4,000 dollar fine ...but because of overcrowding, one gets early release .
And because of these DAs the criminals keep on laughing, and laughing, and laughing!
Right it’s just another loophole for the criminal and a huge burden on you the law abiding citizen!
Stop paying taxes to the government if they are not doing anything to help out these businesses. The government happily collecting taxes from people and businesses, but they want to defund the police and turn a blind eyes to crimes. If million of American citizens get together and stop paying taxes, the government will start doing something real quickly.
You know your hood is bad when even walmart skips town
Pretty much. These places will become like another Detroit.
Funny buy true.
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If I own a store and caught them on camera I would post there picture on billboards outside of my store to let everyone know who the thieves are. Call it the Shame of Thieves.
They wouldn't care. They'd probably steal the signs!
The shoplifting obviously not only hurts the stores but the customers too. Stores stop stocking certain items or lock them up. Then when I go to the drugstore or whatever I can't find anything or have to get them to unlock it. So I start buying everything online and local businesses suffer.
From Corporate America, and the highest seats of Government, Crime seems to pay off with little or No consequences. The only thing that seems to trickle down, is the lack of morals and having no shame.
Q$
It has nothing to do with Corporate America. Arrest these people and place them in jail. Then reinstitute three strikes.
Gangs and mafia did not start with the rich, very few 1% stab, shoot and murder.
Portland has been known for decades as soft on drugs and prostitution, it wasn't the Corporates that promoted this.
@@KK-pm7ud you'd be surprised how many crooks are in corporate America, even politicians, who are prosecuted and get their hand slapped, witn little consequences.
To the Trolls. Explain your views of Corporate America with an explanation of the Corporation's response that poisoned a small rural town.
Criminals should be prosecuted, Both the lowest, but more so the highest. Leaders of men should be held to the same as the lowest led.
Why I said trickle-down. Lead by example. Corporations steal from all of us in their journey for the highest profit. If they spent as much on Safety instead of lobbying and buying Senators and Congressmen, prices would be lower, wages higher, and less pain and suffering.
All Criminals should face judgment within the Laws of our Nation.
Portland is closing both Walmarts...You know it"s Bad!
I dont support nor shop at walmart but I remember there was one in California in long beach. That location downtown in that city had so much theft they closed it after 4yrs
People need to realize NOT to move to Oregon. It's dangerous.
Trash company. Good riddance.
Walmart is closing Portland stores; Portland isn't closing the stores.
Bidenn looters matter !!!
If there is no harsh consequences, the robbers will continue to steal until all the front stores are closed
Can always just not let this specific group into stores.
If you don't let them in they go wild banging on the door and screaming for 40 minutes and no one else can get into the store.
Just put people behind bars….10 years for stealing. Not in jail and out. Makes no sense, thieves hurt all of us. They need to get a damn job.
Just use Islamic Shari'a law concerning thievery, problem solved
now it's just a life sentence paid on an installment plan.
Murder brings less..but stealing needs ten years??
@@ksavage681 They should be put in Ted Wheeler's cabinet to run the city.
Some consider to have a job stealing...
The Walmart on SE 82nd in Portland lost 5.8 Million dollars last year (have a family member working loss prevention there)mostly due to shoplifting‼️ That’s why they are closing. It’s out of control and something drastic needs to be done ASAP‼️ So sad and sickening‼️😤
Walmart deserves it. Glad they're going. Trash company.
losing $16k per day, or $1340 per operating hour shows the magnitude of the problem
Go Democrats!!!
@@claudialupper Perhaps George Soros has paid him to "feel" that way? 😄
Walmart has been underserving communities for decades with their low wages and Putting mom and pop shops out of business. While I don't want them closing up shop I don't exactly feel bad for them.
This is so alien of a scenario where I live in southern Indiana, I have never seen anything close to this type of criminality since I came to this country 45 years ago from Asia. And yet I cant help being disturbed and being empathetic to the plight of small business owners who worked so hard to make their dream come true on their own, only to be victimized by criminals over and over again. So shes right in asking herself what's the use of continuing this business.
I keep expecting Malls to become "Member's Only" and not be open to the public.
I really feel for the woman who seem to have given up hope for humanity and had to close down her store.
Not humanity. Just people from the donkey party.
Bet 50$ she voted for the democrats whose policies are destroying all businesses.
Well when a false narrative makes you vote emotionally instead of logically this is what you get.
This is your future learn to love it... THREADS
BLM
They voted for this, and now they're getting it good and hard.
Banning books and dumping chemicals into rivers to own the libs isn’t gonna solve this.
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Dem paradise, enjoy the fruits of your
voting patterns.
I vote for Islamic Shari'a law concerning thievery
@@funfact8660 Sharia Law is contrary to the values of the USA. You’ve clearly never lived under such a system.
Having start and run a small business, I can understand what she is going through. As I ran a service business, getting ripped off was harder. But there were those who would hire me out and not pay. Luckily, my expenses were low, it was much a loss of a day or two of wages.
Shoplifting food and hygiene products is one thing but this is something else.
I travel for work and I was in Oregon for a while. Let me tell you its a whole other world over there. The amount of homeless people is insane and it seems like criminals have more rights out there. I was talking to someone who grew up there and lives there and they told me that if someone breaks into your house you have to give them five warnings before you can even think to use your firearm like wtf.
People in Portland love crime, they vote for it every chance they get.
Come on lyn are you a albatross?
Say "get out" 5 times fast and BOOM!!! Besides, the only witness is the robber. What they gonna say "I wasn't warned 5 times." ??? Five bullets say otherwise!!!!
The 5 warnings idea is not true.
I’m a Sheriff’s Sergeant in Oregon.
@@MS-ns2pj ya sure
This is so sad my heart goes out to this owner. I also own a couple of small businesses and it's tough. These thieves are out of control.
No. They're in control.
She voted Democrat
Ted Wheeler says crime is righteous so why are you complaining?
Ah the joys of democrat leadership huh ???
Not only to the individual. It will be affecting our community too.
Who would of guessed the race of the shoplifters? No surprises here.
Thank You Tina Kotek!
Heart goes out to Miss Young. Seems this problem is only going to get worse. I like the idea that allows stores like this to have a credit card scanner to be able to unlock the door to enter. The scanned card is then processed to see if it legitimate - not stolen, etc. 💜
Then I wouldn't be bothered to do so just to enter a store.
Employees steal things. then blame shoplifters.
@@mysteriousjz you'd rather let shoplifting happen and stores close than have to exert your poor weak body to scan a card? Nice
@@ksavage681 ummm yeah I'm really sure that's the problem 🤪
@Tom you are being too dramatic. All I am saying lives are already complicated for everyday folks. There are better ways to deal with these MINORITY miscreants without punishing the majority.
Drug addiction? How about thugs to lazy to get a job!
Just a convenient excuse from left wing news channels
They only steal, for meth...
How about prices on everything being ridiculous
@@Mike-wc3jo build back better my ass
@@Mike-wc3jo You don't steal televisions and cosmetics if you're hungry. You do realize prices go up partly to cover the cost of theft?:$imple economics
What if you got rid of judges and DA's that are pro criminal? I know, crazy talk.
I just had someone reply to a comment about closing of big stores saying that closures are not justified it is just greed of the corporate stores. This story is the truth and it applies to small businesses and large. Theft directly affects the bottom line and when it is organized, stores have to shut down.
I feel really sad that her business is suffering because of theft. I'm thousands of miles and an ocean away but theft is bad too in London.
When I grew up in the USA (in the last century) THEFT was just below murder and kidnapping on the cultural scale. In the UK you still have the "class" system and other influences, such as area where you can't drive down a street w/o getting your windows smash/grabbed. The BASE is different. But I don't know what happened in the USA: it's been a long time coming and to steal, is to deserve....PAIN. When I returned to Canada in the west stealing on a small scale is just across the board, and the culture doesn't seem to mind it. I miss the USA, circa 1970.
How’s that diversity working out over there for ya?
@@Gfysimpletons omg about the same as the U.S mate they are off the wall, other worldly BANANAS although as of yet... No teachers with z cups that I know of! 😂
@@CharlieFlemingOriginal 😂😂😂😂😂 we’re both in for a wild ride this summer that’s for sure
@@Gfysimpletons I am betting on a teacher identifying as a child very soon! Can you raise me on a better absurdity? 😂 Lol
This is what happens when you don't punish these criminals amd just let them go
Agree.
Welp they voted for it!
I always thought shoplifting was something a child does till they learn their lesson (at least it was for me). Never would I have thought it would become a way of life for adults.
Imagine what they will do when shit hits the fan. 😳
I work as an Asset Protection detective here in California.
Holy crap, my team and I can grt up to 3 cases a day, and those are the ones we get.
Seriously, if you want to open your own store, make your shop an online store. You seriously will not make money having a shop that is basically a sitting duck.
I bet Ms. Young still votes "Blue".
You know she does.
That’s ridiculous.
@@MountainGirlwIPA it’s a good bet however
genius. .why are there shoplifting laws even in dark red states and cities ? because it happens everywhere ..being a maggot cultist doesn't stop someone from lifting...look what they did to the capital ..
In my friend’s old country, she says they still punish thieves with amputation of the hands. She also said incidents of theft there are very low.
Thieves in the US should have digits and extremities removed as well as violent criminals getting sterilized, it would make this country a better place, unfortunately in democrat run cities, street thugs seem to have more rights than law abiding citizens
That's Saudi Arabia, it's not a pleasant place to live there.
@@azhariarif still there are positive things from a flawed place that can be pointed out
@@somerandomperson6511 Even if enjoy your female relatives being treated like a cattle then yea I guess.
@@azhariarif i am a female, and why are you acting like meaningful criminal penalty would need to come hand in hand with women being treated like pets? You seem to have reading issues, because I clearly wrote “positive things from a flawed place that can be pointed out”, not “we should have sharia law in America” or anything that suggests i was advocating for anything more than harsher penalties for criminals
Very sad. As a former business owner I find this heartbreaking.
Really sad, I got the same problem in the shop in uk, small margins of profits and we cannot thought the thieves, I am closed now
I'm curious which way that store owner voted.
Oregon elected a Lesbian governor....Bet that will go well....
I guarantee you she voted for the Marxist D.A.
Democrat
Oregon and the US in general created this mess and allowed it to get worse. 20 years ago theft would land you in jail, incur fines and be banned from the store. Now, we can't do anything except rely on the crappy ineffectual legal system that is not designed to care. As a result, we are losing everything that made retail great. Such a shame. I loved shopping at malls.
I also miss shopping at malls :/ between the pandemic and stupid @mzon, plus the theft and car break INS, it's stupid.
Vote democrat
Dang. You'd think the mall security would be more of a deterrent for criminals than relocating outside of the mall.
Washington Square is a shopping mall in the city of Tigard, Oregon, United States . . . . about 10 miles SW of Portland.
I live in NYC and we have had many businesses close because of all the shoplifters. So many drug stores have closed it's pathetic. Thieves brazenly walk in and grab shelves of merch and then sit out in the sidewalk trying to sell their loot
I have your first name and my brother has your last name. Ain't that something.
I live in NYC. I can't take two steps without running into a drug store.
Thank the Liberals for this and their policies. The question is, why is America becoming more lawless than in the times of the Wild West
@@starlight122012 What is the alternative? In Arkansas they are so poor they passed laws to let 14 year olds work. Suckabee Sandres down there.
@EJ Tattersall nothing wrong with 14 year old kids working, I started working at 10 years old, besides when I see videos of 11 to 14 year old kids attacking a elder lady and nearly killing her, seems working don't sound like a bad idea 😳
So sorry. So sick of criminals.
Ted Wheeler says criminals help Portland's tourism industry. Get with the program.
its all about Equity
@Zigest all of America lets criminals walk.
Bidenn looters matter !!!
To the shop owner , i am so sorry
I live in Salt Lake City Utah, and just two days ago at Winco the grocery store I watched two very large security People run, well attempt to run, out of a door to catch a guy.
One had the guy they were trying to apprehend in a chokehold. Then they dragged him on the floor in the front of the store towards their security room. Then as we trying to fight his way out of their hold one of the large security people physically laid on top of him to pin him down. that was just at a grocery store! Got the whole thing on video. Wish I could show you.
We’re never going to be able to leave the house at this point. Walking through a mall is incredibly unpleasant.
Good now you can stay home and stay safe like Dr. Fauci says.
@@jeffrobodine8579 Doctor of what?
@@michaelrapson Doctor of misinformation and deception.
There are other things to do and places to go rather than shopping.
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"Repeated reparation distribution forces Washington Square store to close"
There I fixed your title.
While they’re following black people around their shop white people are behind them robbing them blind! 😅😂
Place serial numbers and coded microchips (or codes on fibers of material) in high priced items, these then can identify if an item is real or fake, stolen, purchased or set to sell. These codes must be checked against a database before an item can be resold or purchased legally.
Shame on them for stealing from a small business instead of a scumbag corporation. There used to be honor among thieves.
Part of the problem is when the prosecution is not interested to do anything. Even with the few cases, the punishment was minimal.
But remember it's not equitable to arrest too many of the wrong people.
You're right. There is a certain group of people in today's society that has gained so much power that they truly believe that the laws do not apply to them and they can do anything they want to do because nobody will dare touch them. Anyone that tries to stop them gets hammered in court by the Antifa, BLM and NAACP lawyers who have unlimited resources. That's why it's getting harder and harder to hire cops because they don't want the grief or to do their jobs only to have some bleeding heart DA refuse to prosecute the thugs committing the crimes.
1350
But the right people to arrest are dog lovers, for covering the town in mountains of dog poop.
1350 - Another stupid racist codeword racists use to identify each other, ala 1488. This falsely alleges that black people in America are 13% of the population and commit 50% of the crimes. Racists use codewords like this because they realise that their racism gets them ostracised from rational society unless they hide their stupidity.
In Portland...they only arrest dudes wearing Maga hats...even when the person wearing the Maga hat is on his way to church.
Steal from Wal-Marts, and, Targets all you want, but, stealing from small, local stores in inexcusable.
Was in the Hollywood West Fred Meyers early one morning watching a shopper near the exit door with armloads of clothing. She bolted out the door, alarm ringing, to a waiting car, no license plate, and no one stopped them. Soon, we’ll lose all stores not just Walmart.
This is unfortunate, but hardly surprising.
Up until 2 months ago I lived just a few blocks from this mall.
Garden Home and the SW side have dodged the majority of the shit that plagues Portland (mostly because WA Co. prosecutes!) for a while. But this cancer always grows, and it's spreading everywhere!
Every time I see a newscast from PDX, I think of how fortunate I am that we were able to gtfo of there before we ended up losing as much as so many hard working people there have.
There's no fixing a problem until you identify the problem.
And Portlanders need to identify the ridiculous, woke policies that have been enacted in their city, and cut that cancer out.
Lol...yeah...that'll happen!
If you think "policies" and systems, created on a table and hallways of a facade, by a bunch of retards in suits and ties, will solve the ills of your society, then I am afraid America will continue to descend into chaos and anarchy
This is why I didn't move there because I thought about building or business there but after finding out that there was an influx of liberals we negated you doing so. Thank God we were right sadly
But they won’t
It's always funny to watch these kinds of videos from Portland, because I know this is what they voted for. Now they can live in the cess pool they created. Haha
Portland just announced that they will be giving food stamps to all non citizens, illegal aliens !!👽 😒 😳
Some among us think they are just entitled to anything they want. This privilege, or entitlement, will be the death of many major cities.
Agreed. Smh.
its the drug addiction - makes em desperate --- lock em up and save their lives while they rehab in jail for min 3 years
You voted for it lady.
I feel for this gal. 😢 I suggest that she open up an online store.
I worked in loss prevention in los Angeles. We had 3 attempted robberies everyday.
And then most of you moved to Oregon and did all again........ Thanks
It really is a shame. Thieves don't even care if their faces are on camera. They don't see the hard work that goes into workers and owners operating stores. Legislation is only one way of holding criminals accountable. Authorities really need to hold the websites that allow people to resale stolen goods accountable. Authorities visiting flea markets and swap meets to verify vendors are selling merchandise they have purchased legally is another way.
Legislation?
Theft is already a crime.
Nice ideas in theory, but completely impractical (and burdensome) to implement.
This is actually a really good idea. Give high-end items a title, like a car. If you own a bag that cost more than $1k then you get a title with it, as example. The title has to be present to resale the item, just like a car. Otherwise it's no sale.
They defunded the police
@@ChatBloom Portland PD helped me track down a friend who was missing all the way in Tennessee, because Nashville PD wouldn't spare an officer to do it. Our police are already doing their own jobs AND the jobs of other states who's PDs did not get defunded, then defunding is not the issue.
" I'm with the government and I'm here to help"
I work in retail and I see this all too often. The problem isn't theft. The problem is "soft on crime" laws when it comes to left.
This nation wide "theft problem" would stop overnight if a Law was passed that gave a mandatory 10 year or more prison sentence for anyone convicted of shoplifting.
Hahahaha! The store I work for decided to install Self Checkout and cut employee hours to save money. Shoplifting went up 75%. Trying to cut costs is actually costing them.
@annacolleen That had nothing to do with it. Minimum wage was $7.40 per hour and went up to $11 per hour. The company was already paying $12 per hour, (lower than other companies in the same area), so that increase had zero effect on them or us. Greed was their only motivation.
After seeing record profits from COVID for three years straight, my company thought they could make even more profit by replacing workers with machines. No lunch breaks, no sick days. So they installed the stupid machines and cut worker's hours in half.
Companies will spend thousands of dollars to replace hardworking people instead of investing in those very people. So, when their money saving schemes result in them actually losing money, I laugh.
They honestly didn't believe customers would start stealing from the unwatched self checkouts? They are surprised that with less employees in the store to keep watch and monitor the merchandise, that customers would be trustworthy? This is called shooting yourself in the foot.
So yes, I think it's hilarious. Now, my company is desperately trying to get back the workers who quit over low wages and low hours. Hard to do when other companies are paying them more. It shouldn't take a crisis for you to realize the value in the people you employ.
Welcome to the land of freedom. It's human rights!! Free to rob, free to extort, free to squat. It's nothing compare to how much the landlords suffered. The moratorium is lifted, but the courts are not processing cases, or keeping cases going in circle.
AMERICA IS RAPIDLY BECOMING A LAWLESS THIRD WORLD STATE. FAILED GOVERNMENT FAILED LEGAL SYSTEM
Owning multiple properties of hundreds of thousands of dollars is "suffering" in 2023.
@@luigi55125 so, not paying your rent and not abiding by your lease agreement is ok? Many landlords are locals who only own a handful of properties that they have worked very hard for. Even if you don't like the large corporation landlords, it's still wrong. If you don't pay rent you need to move out.
@@luigi55125 Right, just because other people work hard and earned a lot of money, that makes it your "Human right" to rob them. Landlords owe you your living style simply because you can't afford it. Business owners owe you a Prada bag simply because you can't afford it. America is a lawless piece of $hit democracy. N. Korea seems more rational in comparison.
@@luigi55125 You probably think anyone with a property/properties owns them outright. You poor deluded fool.
As long as the criminals have more rights than the victims nothing will be done. You can't call the cops, they don't do anything. You can't even stop them yourself without being sued for racism, sexism or harassment. Never mind dream of doing something like having an armed guard that actually opens fire on a shop lifter if they get violent, not even with a stun gun.
There is almost half a million guards in the National Guard how about if they are deployed to our shopping centers?.
Those thieves sure have something in common...
Hm. Yeah, you notice that too, eh?
Facts being told here lol
This is a terrible shame! This is not the answer to whatever problems that are being faced. Online shopping is no better as folks will steal packages from your porch.
The drones could drop the packages down the chimney.
Islamic Shari'a law concerning thievery is the answer and solution
@@funfact8660 Correct yourself before being so eager to punish others.
@@paulsawczyc5019 I Judge who is a Criminal, my hands are clean ⚖️
@@funfact8660 I like it 😃
I feel bad for her. Small businesses are hurt the most.
When you let criminals roam free without serious repercussions.
It isn't just the small shop owners. They just announced the other day they are closing two walmart stores there also because of profit loss.
Yes, I heard on news. Including Washington on H street NW too.
Which has nothing to do with theft. Stores close if not profitable all the time.
@@ksavage681 I don't agree with you. If that store was trully not profitable, they would have shut it down years ago. You have to look at the data to know for sure (merchandise ordered minus merchandise sold) and Walmart won't share that.
It would be some of the places they went to first. Destroy the local population, their angry kids grow up and break free of the education system and it’s a free for all. Y’all ever worked at a Walmart? 💀
@@ksavage681 Hard to be profitable when 30+% of inventory walks out the door.
AOC: "YOU HAVE INSURANCE!"
I'm so sorry for you .
The irony of items being made for $5, wholesaled for $15, retailed at $300 and then stolen and sold for $5 in drugs, sold on offer up for $100 and retailed at $200 from another boutique.
A lot of stores are closing due to theft and high prices.
This entire epidemic falls squarely on the shoulders of Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt. He completely mismanaged the office to the point of negligence.
This lady voted and begged for this. Good job shoplifters.
Notice these people arent stealing milk,eggs,and bread?
They are stealing Luxury items... Break their arms.
Damn, that really sux. When you have good merchandise, the only time you can trust customers is after they paid and left. I never trusted people walking around, just looking. Yes, I do judge. I would be a fool not to.
I hear ya
And I can relate to what you're saying. Having been in management, you get a good feel of when you think something wrong is going on ( not all the time but most of the time). And you are right. You get to the point that you can't trust anyone anymore. Even when I am out shopping in another store I still watch people and the way they are acting. It's sad huh?!
The people working the hardest are falling the fastest due to the garbage going on in this country…
The police/government are not going to do a damn thing about this problem. All the Portland stores should close.
They need laws for online selling. They should be made to prove they have bought the items they selling online.
I’m sure what the usual suspects look like
This is great news. Deal with what you voted for.
My daughter works at such a store, she said it’s illegal to call the police before the perpetrator leaves the store. So if you call the police you are the one committing the crime. It’s who you voted into office that are making these policies and preventing the police from doing their job.
1. Have an online only store
2. Lock all merchandise
3. Relocate to a red state / city. We still enforce the laws
So two choices: Either close all stores, or arrest all the homeless, druggie criminals.
Edit: AND KEEP THEM IN JAIL!!!!!!!!!
They don't look like your typical "homeless junkie"
The choice has been chose, closed stores except the ones online.
3rd option... Islamic Shari'a law concerning thievery.......chop chop 😫
@@funfact8660 Is that what they do to their royals, politicians & spiritual leaders for stealing from the masses to be rich?.
@@duvine3882 Yes if caught
They have to lock down laundry detergent?
Where I live (Ostrava, Czech Republic) it's not at all uncommon to see men's razors in anti-theft packaging. Apparently, that's one of those items that gets targeted by shoplifters.
A Mall? That has to suck living there. It would be terrifying to be in a store during a smash-and-grab.
Even if the thieves are arrested the judges release them without punishment.
There seems to be a common thread in all of these thefts but I just can't put my finger on what it is.
Lots of joggers.
Basketball Americans.
Unarmed teens coming home from Bible study.
Negros?
It's almost like Portland hates democracy
Lower the retail dollar amount that qualifies for felony incarceration.
Stop the revolving door of arrest and release.
It emboldens criminals and allows them back on the streets to reoffend with no consequences.
Keep the thieves in jail longer.
I work at a Kroger store in San Diego and the thieves mostly come out at night. They just stuff their back pack or coat like it’s a non issue because they know we can’t do anything about it.
I can't stand it when these reporters (and activists and politicians) try to rationalize high crime by saying, "Well, this kind of thing happens everywhere."
You know what... it really DOESN'T happen everywhere!