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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- A video of a woman complaining about everything being locked behind glass at her local Target sparked angry responses from some leftists online who accused her of classism and racism. But doesn’t she have a point? Let’s get into it.
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If you’re in a store that has products locked up or behind glass, you’re not in a bad store you’re in a bad neighborhood and should leave immediately
defunding police and not inforce theft and shoplifting with punishment and jail becaus "some ism" and now cry that they cant shop like a free citizen... stupid is what stupid does.
Is sunscreen locked up?
@@zerofox1551 Funny but I'm pretty sure black people can still get things like sunburns, heat rashes, water blisters etc...
@@zerofox1551hur hur hur , go refresh your 1dten certified self.
Nothing is locked up in new Hampshire. Except new phones n tablets
Here's a quote from Ronald Reagan. We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
And yet they continued!
The hilarious part of this is that Reagan BROKE THE LAW and faced no consequence. Why? He was rich and powerful. His was the "crime" we don't care about. Some homeless guy steals a $7 something or other from a store, though, and ... RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
Amen
The problem is that, unless there's an observable public backlash about it, things aren't going to change.
Universities and schools will lie to people, teaching them complete BS, in order to make them believe a false paradigm.
Politicians will implement unpopular, failing legislation, based on that falsehood.
The media will make it seem like the people who don't like that law are some sort of degenerate minority.
And dumb people who do not take interest in politics will believe the media, and help stabilize that new legislation.
Unless there's an observable outrage, to the point where any common Joe can look outside his window and _see_ that what the media say people want, and what people _actually_ want are two different things, this _will_ continue.
As the quote goes:
_We know that they are lying,_
_they know that they are lying,_
_they even know that we know they are lying,_
_we also know that they know we know they are lying too,_
_they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well,_
_but they are still lying._
_In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country._
@@ronsexton3685 The Left and Right are in cahoots.
I'll always remember what my loss prevention manager at Lowe's said to me. "stealing a loaf of bread to feed your starving family is a tragedy and a reality that too many people face on a daily basis. Stealing a drill to pawn is a business decision."
This. Stealing is wrong, however I have more sympathy to someone stealing baby food or a bag of dipers then someone stealing 40 dvds or a playstation.
Most cities have food pantries
@@sparxmaiden841 They steal baby formula and people call it a tragedy, yet the stolen formula is on Marketplace 30 minutes later. America is the fattest, best-fed nation in the world. Almost nobody's stealing because they're hungry. They're stealing to make a quick buck.
Your manager hit the nail on the head. Where I live its fairly well known that there is some racket that goes up and down the interstate coridor and they'll hit every home depot, lowes or other big hardware store. They will steal whatever high value items they can before bolting and go on to the next store and there's little the employees are allowed to do to stop them. And in the footsteps of San Francisco any theft under a particular price not only isn't prosecutor it barely ever is investigated. The perps know it and intentionaly stay under that number for any particular hit. The employess know the folks on site but they come in packs to overwhelm the number of people that can be devoted to following them around and the cops dont even come out anymore. They aint doing it to feed their starving children, its just their dishonest job.
@@sparxmaiden841 a friend of mine steals baby diapers because she doesnt want to pay for them.
I traveled outside of California. And what I found is that if you prosecute the offense.
They don't have to lock up the merchandise
But prosecuting would have a "disparate impact". Not because they're intrinsically inferior or something, but because they've been told since birth that they're being oppressed and stolen from by society, and feel entitled to "reparations"
So you could say you saw a bit of reality in this country😉👍
California is like South Africa now, its completely out of control. Even paying BUS FARE is merely a suggestion.
@@1495978707 yeah i mean you know you cant really blame them they are victims of ancestorial racism that make it so they have no choice but to steal to survive its not their fault after all they dont have excess to computers and they cant even get a drivers license bc they havent been taught how and bc of our constant systematic racism they cant get a job or earn money. its not their fault you see they are just victims of society. they need to steal to survive those TVs and shoes and necessary for survival how can they run from the racist cops without fresh kicks on? or know how much the cops are oppressing black ppl without a TV? ask jordan the shoes are everything brother and you need to stay jacked into CNN or the brainwashing might wear off. ( extreme sarcasm ) lmfao
It's almost as if there are negative consequences to people stealing all the time. Who would have thought?
A great success in advancing the redistribution of wealth though. ;)
This summarizes the whole situation... only comment that is necessary.
"Dur people steal all the time"
The solution of the year
@@SkyeAten🙄
I know, right. Totally shocking 🙄
The absolute lack of awareness from those people that think this is some sort of conspiracy against PoCs or the lower class is downright infuriating at this point.
It really shows the assumptions they're making about those groups
Especially when the decision on which items to lockup/put behind glass is often made by a program that tracks things like known theft, item price, size, store location, etc for loss prevention. A person with emotion didn't make that call, raw data and facts feed to a machine using logic did.
it's not a "conspiracy", it's verified truth... Let's look at the historical evidence, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, COINTELPRO, Planned Parenthood, shall I continue?
They don't get the darker ones we're the ones being stolen not the lighter ones.
If the orange gum keeps getting stolen next to the grape and cherry then the orange gum would be enclosed or tagged while the others are not.
They lock up the items that have been stolen the most.
My wife is a teacher. She is terrified of our future because the kids just do whatever they want and their parents cry racism if someone tries to hold them accountable for their actions.
Most kids are depressed, anxiety ridden and on psych meds. Your teacher must be blind because that future is here. Must be in denial
We left the US, I suggest others also.
The future is already here. Your wife is an airhead
@@sukaenacornelius9285but where?
@@sukaenacornelius9285You could've just moved to a red state.
Right on, young lady. You so eloquently nailed this 100%. It never ceases to amaze me just how absolutely ignorant so many of these people are…. I have always thought, we need to drastically change the policies, and start actually policing. If anything, add more cops, build more jails….and whatever race ends up being the majority arrested….whether white, black, Asian….etc….so be it. Deal with it, people. By the way, I’ve always felt that the idea of “defunding the police” was literally the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard….And I’m pushing 60 🤷🏻♂️
Many years ago, I sneaked a package of candy from the store and was caught red-handed by my mom. After she warmed up the seat of my pants for me, she drove me back to the store and made me look the store keeper in the eye while apologizing and returning the item. Best life lesson I was ever given. RIP, mom.
Happened to countless kids in the past. Also you knew if you got in trouble at school you were in bigger trouble at home.
My bros and I got spanked a lot as well. We turned out good later. Do bad, get spanked. Do good, get rewarded.
Same here. I stole carton cigarettes and had to have my mom come get me. I got arrested in front of my whole school. And I got my ass tanned. Taught me a lot of lessons that I’m grateful to have had.
Same thing happened to me, learnt my lesson and haven’t felt the urge to steal from stores at all after that
Your story took me back to my early childhood. My aunt and I, were in the toy section of a department store. There was a toy car that I asked her to buy. She stated NO, so I pull it off the shelf and into our shopping bag. Got home took it out of the bag and started playing. When she seen it and asked how did I purchase it, I had no answer. She took a belt to my butt, then we return to store and made me tell the clerk what I done. She bought the toy and gave it away. Yes that was enough for me to learn.
In elementary school we learned how the actions of one person could spoil things for the the whole class.
We did too, and we thought it was unfair.
Exactly.. it's unfair, but it is what it is
@@ankavoskuilen1725the alternative is for the companies to either go broke, lock up the stuff that gets stolen, or just leave the area all together. Each one or those situations would be taken as racism to the ignorant left.
It takes one person to take away the pizza party! That’s what happened to us in school lol
Funny how there is not the opposite where one person does good and everyone is rewarded for their behavior.
It's NOT about racism, it's about preventing theft...for example:
I'm an Asian living in a predominantly white neighborhood in the PNW. It's NOT the best or safest place to live and there's a lot of crime here including theft. My local grocery store which is around the corner, locks up baby formula, certain personal care products, and makeup. The same grocery store on the same street that is about two miles away, doesn't do this. They don't have to because theft isn't as big of an issue on that side of town...
People screaming racism have never owned a business and quite frankly, are probably upset that it's harder to steal because, why would they do the mature thing and work for what they have? 🙄
Bingo. That’s what pisses them off. It’s harder to steal or tag switch or self scan in replacement for items triple the prices.
But...but...but...are you trying to tell me I'm not entitled to have whatever I want at all times?
That doesn't sound right -.-
(Above is me being sarcastic)
And yes, you are right, it's a cultural problem not a race one. Areas with high trust and intact social cohesion have low crime. A culture that respects personal property and responsibility is more likely to create a safe environment than one that teaches you are owed just because *insert reason*.
Yeah, I live in 95% white country in Europe and there are some stores with locked items. It’s usually in the areas with high fluctuation of people - bus or train station, big malls etc. nothing to do with race.
@muaythaiballerina6463
Well as a black man who is an entrepreneur with a day job, I'll tell you they don't wanna work for what they want because "working is hard."
That's why they prefer to take what they want rather than work for it.
where i'm from if i go to the white side of town everything is easily accessed. go to black side of town. everything locked up. so i just don't go to the black side. look at prison. more blacks are in jail cause blacks not only accepts crime in their culture they LITTERALY celebrate it. 15% of population doing 52% of crime. its a race thing all day all long. get your head out the sand.
Took 30 minuets to get flintstones vitamins at a Target on Long Island. Every staff member I spoke to said they did not have the key to unlock the display.
Likely there is only one key in the store. This is the case for every locked item in the Walmart I work in. If someone wants a locked item I don't have the one key for, all I can do is page.
Imagine enabling crime and empowering criminals and then crying about having to face the consequences.
Until it's their house and their things.
If you decriminalize things then you can say that the crime rate is down. 🤔
They will run to the conservative cities and then protest life there.
I love Amals, but the problem is not left or right, it’s Liberal or conservative. Conservatives only care about money, but Liberals just want quality of life.
the consequences were the reason why they enabled criminals. They want people to shop online. They're disgusting buisnesses and people of shoping IRL.
We started by becoming a culture of instant gratification, and now we're a culture of zero accountability.
Sub culture
Exactly
Who TF is we? I only see one culture doing this!
we? nah fam leftist are doing all this
@@DinDooIt oh yeah and who is that lol??
I worked for Target as an Asset Protection Specialist. Basically, I'd get a printout full of barcodes and Inventory vs Sales numbers. I didn't know what the product was or who used it... I just saw "We started with 10 of these, we sold 3, but only have 2 left in the store". When your Inventory is consistently lower than the Sales can account for... it's theft and is flagged as a Hot Item. Security measures are applied to the items that are always missing and it's figured on a store-to-store basis. 🙄
You mean there ISN'T actually a huge, nation-wide conspiracy to prevent black women from doing their hair? THE SHOCK!
Like duh!
been working at walmart for 9 years we follow the same protocol
I did the same for Walgreens. Things that were high theft ended up being locked in cases. It was more of a pain to have to check, much less get for a customer. Maybe if people wouldn't be thieves, it wouldn't be needed.
Yeah, working retail here; I remember one of our hot items, since I work in the refrigerated-goods section, is a relatively-expensive brand of feta: literally only ever selling less than half the items leaving our stores, the missing ones having been stolen. And this has nothing to do with minorities in particular, it's plain-and-simple shoplifting.
Target 🎯 They called it right. Target for shoplifters. Couldn't happen to a more woke store.
100%
Funny. I actually thought the "Dystopian Nightmare" was seeing people filling up garbage bags with merchandise and then running out of store.
Nah, it's not a true 'Dystopian Nightmare" until it's (theoretically) sustainable, cause then there's no way out. This BS will collapse or reform is a decade, tops.
To this princess, it IS a dystopian nightmare. Her dreams of living in a “quaint urban area that has been gentrified” aren’t living up to her boujie standards. She probably pays way too much to live in a “trendy” area likely overwhelmed by hipsters. It still gets haunted at night by people who used to live there trying to take back something from a world that took away homes to make room for hipster hotels for the sake of green. And, now… they are being haunted in the day, too.
What? No. She just wants to buy some goddamn toothpaste.@@JimAirborne25
@@JimAirborne25So, what's the alternative to gentrification? I'll tell you, since you haven't figured it out: miles and miles of deteriorating buildings that would soon be uninhabitable. Nobody would live in those buildings. Neighborhood after neighborhood just deserted. That's the reality.
...back to their "tent city" along the sidewalk...😱🥺🤡🤡🤡
Who'd have thought defunding the police and pandering towards minorities would back fire 😂
The minorities of the minorities are silencing those speaking out against. The hood is having a civil war and some are say defund police. And I'm like yo WTF. Are you serious.
Actual police officers support defund the police and they still work. It’s geared more toward reallocating money and putting more money in places with very few police officers.
How many of us DIDN'T know that would be the result?
@@mreed712apparently too FUK'N many.. Because voila, we the people are still living under lockdown 2023...
TY Brandon.!
Yes lets defund the military now and see how that goes!
My grandfather opened a supermarket in a black neighborhood. On opening day, the locals thronged into the store and looted it. He had invested in the store, trained the workers, stocked the store. After the store was looted, he closed the store, and each worker was given two weeks pay. He moved his headquarters out of a rented office, into his home. It took 3 years to recover.
Yeah that sounds about right. It should be easy to make the dots connect, and point out the problem, but doing that just gets you in trouble.
RrRrRrRrAaAaAaAcCcCcCiIiIiIsSsSsSsStTtTtTtTtT!!@#!#!
Yeah he should seen that coming dude.
Why didn't someone tell him wtf was bound to happen?
And my God 3 years to recover?
That's a damn shame dude, I hope he got back on his feet and bounced back and lived a fulfilling life.
So sorry this happened to him. Had to be heartbreaking. 😢
This is so funny because I live in a low crime area and almost nothing is locked up at target. But the other side of town at Walmart has so much locked up. Life is easier when you don't live near criminals. So we shouldn't suffer criminals.
When I was 18 I worked at Walmart as a regular employee when they started to put things behind cases. I was so appalled when I saw that they mostly encased a lot of the textured hair products in the beauty section. I also thought it was an act of racism until I became the department manager of the beauty section. We would have to scan all new product that came in and the amount, and constantly check to make sure we still had that same amount on hand if it didn’t show that it was purchased. That’s when I realized that all the products that get locked up are mostly the ones going missing.
And to top it off, Walmart wouldn’t give us our bonuses due to the amount of theft 🤦♀️
The better you control and reduce shrink the better your bonus.
They did't call it vanishing cream for nothing
@@AmaNotaGogo😂
What I find concerning here is that your first thought was racism and the fact that you didn't question it until you were given responsibility for said products.
@@MrVohveli what can I say, I was a lefty 🤷♀️ you live and you learn.
I’m 25 now.
Recently I had to unlock a cabinet for a lady. She was upset that the things were locked up. She says “just let them take it”. This is why prices are higher and everything is locked up. People have no idea how the world works.
when your life is ruled by emotion and empathy, you think that everything will just work itself out no matter waht.
@@politicalpolarbear I agree except the empathy part.
What they have is performative empathy. They know that real empathy makes you look good, so they try to mimic it. The problem with that: if you don't really understand the underlying principles of empathy, you can't accurately reproduce it.
Real empathy embraces reality and seeks to solve problems sustainably. But that's hard, frustrating work and it is so much easier to come in with a quick fix that will gloss over the issues without solving them.
@@politicalpolarbear But that's not empathy, that's enablement.
the reply to that statement should have been "If you want them to to just take it...I will have to lock you up first...for all eternity" and see the reaction
yeah that works until she gets ripped off. then you see the attitude change
I can tell you there’s NOTHING like this in my small town in Tennessee. Plenty of black people and yet nothing is locked up… it’s almost like it’s a culture thing?
Small town with some minority population here and very little is locked up. It costs them to have to have people to open cases so they'd rather not unless it's essential. I've actually seen security *removed* since I've been here.
Same, I can go to every Walmart in Memphis, everything locked up. Drive to Nashville some store have only high theft locked up, hop over to Franklin (unless changed recently) nothing locked up. Jackson, TN only high theft tems. I talked to managers whom I know, they said it looks racist because the demograpics of those stealing are like 99% black.
Correct
Small town with a big immigrant population. Some things locked up, some not. Deodorant not locked up but condoms are. Flashlights locked up but hammers are not. So far, not a lot but I fear that there will be more.
I'm in TN too and thank goodness
Thank you, you are an enlightened and very well spoken young lady. I really enjoy your videos. As an old school black male, I am at times, ashamed of how some members of my race behave. Accountability is quickly disappearing and we need to admit our fault in corporations deciding to exit our communities. Thank you for honest commentary!WE NEED TO DO BETTER!!!
Yes, accountability for all of us, regardless of race. Let's be good, decent people and treat one another with respect and call out those who don't.
She was literally fighting for her life in that store…ok.
I recently traveled to Minnesota and noticed immediately that the Target did NOT have everything locked up. Clearly it’s a localized issue in certain cities. When the population of homeless people is ridiculously high and you have no consequences for “petty” theft, it’s not exactly surprising that stuff gets locked up.
This right here. That's happening a lot here in Vancouver, WA because of the spillover of homeless addicts who came from Portland, OR...
True cause none of my targets are like that.
@@crzyinzan3 i wouldnt know, i never go in one. Target is just a wal mart with a superiority complex, and prices to match.
I haven't been in a while, but last time I went - it wasn't like that for everyday stuff. Just the standard locks for electronics and certain medications.
It isn’t the homeless population whose doing the large majority of theft.
If stores had it in for black people and wanted to make it hard for them to have these products, they wouldn’t stock them at all. The “logic” is ludicrous.
When my parents were growing up in the southern U.S. there was real racism, when people of color would not have even been able to set foot in the Target, let alone get close enough to steal anything. I grew up in the same area, and there was not one place in our small little southern town that anybody of any color could not go and do their shopping.
Mny years ago I was told I was responsible for training all of my crews how to look at each person that walked into our restaurant...I told t look at each customer s 8f their color wx...green because if they treated each customer as if they we=e green.... their tips won't way higher,the cooks were cookingaitbetter food thus cretin a happy crew
Replace all the shoes with work boots, they won't take those.
@@cynthiahaun9269wanna try again?
@@maryrichardson1318Yes, there USED to be racism like that, but there isn't anymore in the US. The trouble is, many poc's who weren't even born when it did exist use that to cry racism now, when it doesn't, and to be an excuse to steal or be entitled now. And too many white people who remember the actual racism from way-back-when can't seem to grasp the fact that it's been gone for decades, and move on, instead of continuing to have some sort of feeling of mass guilt for that which no longer exists.
Reminds me of my 8th grade field trip to Six flags. A bunch of kids in my class were messing around and thought it would be fun to jump over a railing and trespass into restricted areas.
Our school was banned from Six Flags and our entire class was banned from any more field trips/travels. Our teacher also canceled our class party. We didnt blame our school or Six flags for punishing us… We shamed the crap out of those kids for ruining it for the rest of us.
Needless to say, they never acted up again
Sad to think that kids have more common sense on blaming the true bad guys then many adults
Yeah, and now those hoodlums run the LAPD, school boards, and the Mayor's office
Funny same thing happened a few years before I made it to 8th grade at my school
That was exactly the point of canceling the class party. The teachers wanted the wrongdoer's peers to punish them. Exclusion and ridicule from peers is more effective than punishment from authority.
Actually I have never experienced this. I live in a town with no traffic lights and no PD. Not because we defund law enforcement here, we’re just that small of a town. Right now my neighbors doors are unlocked, as is mine. My keys are in the cup holder of my car. Know what else we have in common? We are all armed. The only crime in my town since I moved here was a teenager getting nailed for riding a dirt bike on the public roads. He fully co operated and got a ticket. He did not run, or get out of bounds with the cops. It’s amazing how communities are with a little civic responsibility. By the by, I don’t think we have any ethnic diversity of any kind. I’m an out of the closet gay man living within site of MAGA flags and I sleep like a baby knowing no one is stupid enough to break in. 70 miles away in Baltimore (I work very nearby) I don’t dare leave my car unsecured and I keep my head on a swivel in broad daylight. GET THE HELL OUT OF CITIES!
Locking things up has nothing to do with race, it all has to do with theft. And if people hadn't been out stealing, the store wouldn't have to lock the items up.
Leftists dont care about cause and effect they have proven that time and time again. They lean on racism and hate to feed their delusions.
Yep. And there's a reason they don't put gardening items behind glass.
The thieves who have set up the data in the database about which items are shoplifted and which are not just were never that interested in growing their own food.
Stores can put gardening items in front of the store, without even any cameras watching them. MAYBE one person will take a few seeds. That's it. Nobody steals that stuff. Why?
For the same reason that the people complaining about food deserts and how poor urban people can't get good food looted the convenience stores, and trashed them, and took or destroyed all the canned goods and beers, but left the banana display absolutely untouched.
Wow… what a great observation.
I told my wife a couple weeks ago that it won't be long before some stores are going to become curb-side pick up only. Make your order online, an employee will shop for you, bag it all up, and bring it to your car. The stores will be built like banks without windows and no public access.
@@michami135 Or close up the physical location and be online orders from warehouses only putting people out of work.
It’s almost like the more an item is stolen the more it is secured. That’s crazy logic! Stop stealing and if you know people stealing you need to shame them for doing it
Used to be community would take care of community. I will never forget a young girl slip something in her coat and set off alarms as her mom left with bags. I went to security & told them it was the young girl, not the bags. My partner (EX now) gave me shit for getting involved. We need accountability. They just quit paying for any security or PI’s over the past few decades and this is the result.
God forbid these people make everything about race or politically correct
It's like they never understood the point of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".
If they didn't have that they'd have nothing at all.
yea its terrible. this new generation we just have to not talk about in the history books. leave the tik tok generation era out of it. Bring back vine lol simpler times.
In fairness... it is about race... just not the way they would like it to be.
@@anniehopkins8470 in fairness it was never about race it was just about what people wanted but wasnt willing to work for
In my area, the only things that gets locked behind glass doors are games and "adult care" products. Walgreens started putting stickers on their soap products informing costumers about people placing outside products on the shelves.
I remember a news story here in Atlanta years ago about a Walgreens putting security tags on items black ppl purchased, like hair relaxer and things like that. There was all this outrage over it, but Walgreens basically said “we are alerted to the sku numbers of what gets stolen during inventory processes, and we tag those sku numbers, we don’t even know what those products are when we decide they should be tagged”, which is TRUE. Ppl who have no idea how merchandising works assuming it’s racism…THE definition of logical fallacy.
honestly if I were a black person I'd be EXTREMELY embarrassed to point out that only the "black" products get locked up. Because it's just common sense that a store will lock up the items that are frequently stolen. Like Spray paint.. that's not color specific. They are locking them up against thieving hooligans. Skin color has nothing to do with it.
I used to work in a pharmacy and did inventory and shrinkage tracking. What Walgreen said is correct. All they see is am SKU number. They don't see what the product is. They know exactly how many each store is supposed to have, how many sold, how many are reported as damaged and destroyed, and how many are missing. It's all tracked.
Therefore we can know which race is stealing most 😉
@drummerjstone incorrect. You cannot assume which race is stealing as anyone can know which non-essential products will sell. White people know hair products will sell to the black and latino community just like they know cr*ck will sell to the white community 👍🏽
@@drummerjstoneThey basically told on themselves. I love when people get mad that they can't steal things anymore.
The Black employees at these stores are sick of having to deal with this shit. It isn't only a "Yt" grievance. Dudes who WORK for a living also get indignant at not just having to risk their safety and deal with the aggravation, but also watching lazy MFers stealing what the rest of the world is able to earn.
Plus they up the prices for everyone else to make up the difference.
I hate the word “yt” it feels like a slur.
Why just the “black employees?” 😂
@@hashtagisaacweaver1999why don't you understand the implication? It's not just white people who understand the problem, it's only blacks white leftie clowns that don't get it.
@@hashtagisaacweaver1999Man you're dense. I put it so as to avoid the idea that it was only White/non-Blacks who are aggrieved by this matter.
I love how that woman was saying black women need essentials like deodorant and body wash as if we’re the only ones 😂 But aside from that, stores lock up stuff that tends to grow legs and walk off the most. Before it was makeup but after the pandemic, more everyday items were being stolen more frequently so they have to lock up practically everything now.
I caught that too! Said that especially black wonen need hygiene products.
Say what?
Like I can see how the darker makeup can be interpreted poorly if you only look at it on a surface level but literally EVERYONE needs essentials, that's why they're called essentials. We can clearly see that it impacts more than just black people as the girl in the original video talking about it is literally white
You know that white liberals think that black people are smellier than white people.
@@sydneywarren7353only if your dumb. If not you know why.
Like the recent looting in one city by BLM people despite the family wanting peaceful protest. Stealing wigs from a hair salon, Jack Daniels from a liquor store, and iPad's from an Apple store to pour the JD on. Somehow that's all essentials.
You are absolutely right. Love to see someone young who can think for herself. Keep it up. Love your video's and subscribed.
I am a 67 year old black male. It breaks my heart to see the open stealing of retail stores by many from my race. It seems that we as a community are to quite to be honest about the problem.
The stores will be find, but the community barely exist now. It`s more a cluster of people.
Race isn't the problem, culture is the problem. It isn't just black people. Theft is a serious problem in the USA now days. From stealing Halloween Candy, porch theft, Door Dasherd taking food from their customers, etc etc.
Just need to start addressing it within your own communities.
It is not a racial problem, it is a cultural one and Black Redneck culture has ramped up its destructive tendencies lately. We need to call it out and not feel bad because these self-destructuve people look like us.
Muy culture is the problem and the fact they won't punish criminals.
Too quiet, IN retail stores. OF my race Seymour.
I can confirm that shoplifting is through the roof. I work in retail and we have had lost more product this year alone than the place ever has. We once had 67 items stolen within one day. The worst part is that we employees aren't allowed to do anything about it. We cant say anything to them. I'm not saying we should have to. It is a safety concern, but what sucks is that we're not even allowed to call the police for it. Even if we fill out a report, the police don't do anything. And when describing the suspect, we're not allowed to say their race due to "racism fears". It's stupid.
Good grief! 🙄
😮I hope you're looking for a different job, cause that place will be out of business soon.
@@roringusanda2837 Psh, it's a multibillion dollar corporation. They're not gonna be closing. But I am currently looking for a non-retail job.
@@girlvlogsdiy2462 Good. You don't sound smart enough to be working the cash register.
Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't California pass a law I think it's called the employee safety act or there abouts. Basically saids that any employee can be fined and/or jailed if they attempt to stop anyone from shoplifting items regardless of there worth. It's for the "safety" of the employee or employer it's claimed. What kind of crap is that? It's sounds like their making to where the victim is the criminal and the criminal is the victim. It's only going to get worst, liberal logic is a mental illness.. Make crime legal and outlaw self-defense.
She was “literally fighting for her life in that store”
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The employees she mentioned 45 seconds later were prolly like "You frosted flake get out"
Is no one allowed to exaggerate?
@@Newie69MK There's exaggeration, and then there is just stupidity.
The word "literally" is meant to clarify that the speaker is not exaggerating. And that's beyond exaggeration. There was no fight to speak of, much less a fight to not be killed. @@Newie69MK
The lulu lemon out in one of the more swanky areas in my county gets hit with the flash mob steal everything not bolted down bit on a weekly basis. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before that whole strip closes shop. Just last week a car full of 7, yes, 7 hit the place, and took off , got pursued by the police who were already in the parking lot, drove at like 100 on a congested road and 4 of them got killed. Guessing someone’s gonna sue someone now…
They used to say “crime doesn’t pay”, and it used to be true. Now there are people who have made petty crime their only profession, because the courts have assured that crime does pay.
I used to go out of my way to find a store that locked up the cosmetics I was so happy when my local store started locking up the make-up. Now I KNOW when I buy it, no one else has used my lipstick first!
Ikr? I walked into the cosmetics section of my store and was met by the sight of half a dozen college-age women sitting on the floor trying all the make-up.
@@edennis8578ewww! That's like returning a pair of underwear that's been worn
Well, at least you know no _customer_ has tried it first. Employees could have.
Former Retail Apparel associate here: I wish my store had put the socks and underwear in cases. Repackaging them was a pain int the neck, not to mention when pieces were missing.
@@sprawl2018Nothing nastier. Automatic dispose and loss to the store, and I had to hope that I had gloves and hand sanitizer near by because the rest of the department wouldn't let me run to the bathroom to wash my hands and they didn't want to deal with claims in general.
Former Walmart employee here. I can tell you that company policy is that when a store (not the company as a whole) loses a certain dollar amount of a specific product (or line of products) per month to theft, that item or range of items must then be locked up to prevent further theft.
when mass looting stops the locks will go away also !!!
I experienced the point you made around 9:30 back in the 90s at my college. They were hiring a new honors program administrator, and I was part of the student interview. I remember one candidate (a white male) noticing there was no "diversity" (read: black students) in the university honors program, and brought up his "amazing" plan to make the program more "appealing" and "accessible" to them by....lowering standards. Too bad he forgot he was talking to a Hispanic woman, an East Asian woman, and a South Asian woman. We ripped him a new one about how condescending, infantilizing, and racist that was. Too bad kids today now support that mindset instead of calling it out.
In allot of western nations, there seems to be this problem where progressives are saying that the universities aren't reflecting society's ethnic makeup.
Yet they forget that it is what happens before anyone applies to higher education is what lays the ground work.
If they want to have higher education to be more diverse, they need to look at the foundation and see where the true problems are.
Instead of lowering the bar, they should be looking at the reasons why the bar isn't being reached in the first place.
In Oregon they just lowered the standards for graduation because black students were not passing math and reading proficiency standards.
So they are failing the black students by accepting as fact that the students can’t learn and just give up.
If I lived there I would be protesting every day in front of a school.
That's some of the weirdest fucking shit.
Lots of leftists (especially the Twitterati) love to use the phrase "dog whistle" or the Tiktok generation loves to use the phrase "tell me you're x without telling me you're x", like earlier in the video with racism.
However, they're the ones who are essentially, with their choice of policies, saying that black people are infantile, unintelligent and irresponsible.
Black students aren't graduating? Lower the standards so they do, otherwise it's racist.
Black people are being jailed for theft more often than other phenotypes? Just make theft de facto legal, that way they won't be jailed.
They see problems involving black people and consistently choose the *WRONG* fucking solution, because they're so overly concerned with doing ANYTHING bad to ANY black person.
Just look at that activits that got stabbed recently with his girlfriend being right there next to him.
She doesn't want to press charges against her boyfriend's killer because the killer is black.
It doesn't matter what that black man did, the fact that he is black is all she needs to know about him.
His actions do no matter, only his skin colour does.
Who are the racists?
In recent years there's been an outcry in the fantasy community because some "fans" have started to yell out that orcs are actually coded black (what that means in normal terms is that it's a caricature of black people, or heavily based on black people).
So they're saying that the race of monsters who are violent, murderous, naturally evil and despoil everything they come across... are based on the behaviour of black people... and they're saying that this makes Tolkien a racist...
Who the *FUCK* are the racists again?
Right! How insulting is this? We need a equal access to opportunity. Outcome needs to be based on merit alone. It is perplexing that this concept is so hard for many to comprehend.
Affirmative action is and has always been ultra white supremacy.
As a native Californian, I feel horrified by what's happened to my state. Especially San Francisco. It breaks my heart what the leftists have gotten away with. They truly want to destroy our country from the inside out 😢
I don't think they want to destroy the country. They just dont know any better
@@berniechoy5482 If they don't know any better, they'll end up destroying the country...
It's not just California though, it's every major city in America. Wouldn't that be great for the rest of us if all the madness was contained to one state..
@@trophyscene5015I just left California, the retail theft is complete different in the state.
If subscribe to any California news you'll see flash mob robberies are a constant occurance.
Right... the leftist liberals do certainly want to destroy the foundation of this country, further dividing us along racial lines and led by soros and obama funded political figures, beginning at city and county levels, while seeping into our childrens primary schools.
I have worked for a locally owned craft store for 20 years and the shoplifting has never been worse than in the last 4 years. We spent a majority of our time having to deal with it and more and more of our products had to be behind the counter. We couldn’t afford to have stuff stolen every day. One of the reason the store closed after 30years
As a child who shoplifted. You have to be a monster to take from locally owned and family businesses. Even teen clepto me realized you don’t take from businesses that barely keep their doors open as is.
I feel so bad for all of you and hope there's going to be some kind of silver lining in the future!
@Sillystring365 Taking from any store is wrong.
The bigger chain store has a larger customer base and more shoplifters in general. It also has more people justifying their actions because "they can afford it" so they take a greater % loss than a small business would to shoplifting.
That doesn't typically hurt the large corporation in the long run. They'll just increase their prices, either so that law abiding citizens are covering the cost of the stolen goods or to cover security measures. If that doesn't work, they'll close the shop.
And while "X chain store losing a location" seems like it hurts nobody, it hurts the people employed there pretty directly. It also hurts the poorest members of society living nearby.
If a store closes, the more affluent members of society go to the next closest with an extra 10-20 minutes on their drive. The poorest members of society either spend more at a local competitor (with less competition to keep pricing fair) or they have an increased expense getting to the further shop and an increased inconvenience getting back with their shopping.
The unintended consequences of stealing from bigger stores hurt people on the bottom socioeconomic rungs of society just as much as stealing from a locally owned business.
@Aeternus_Nox 100% ! Higher wage earners can afford to shop further out , but less wealthy people who use that store can't . And people end up losing jobs
The counter thing reminds me of stores we had in Russia as I was a small child. There was not a single store where you could take the things you need by yourself. You had to ask for everything at the counter. It's not that inconvenient if there are just 10-20 kinds of items in the store 😅 one kind of milk, 2 kinds of cheese etc. But it takes a lot of time.
Later, in the end of the century, stores with open shelves started to emerge. But they had security men at the entrance, and you had to lock up your bag. And the security person would follow you around, looking around the corner in a creepy way.
It's not nice for anybody to be in a situation where the stores can't trust their customers.
I enjoy your content.Thank you very much for providing it. When I was working in the baltimore area in 2020 outside the city the Walmart had things locked in the pharmacy area. I found it a little difficult, but I had no challenges with them doing that.
I've lived in an African country, a European country, and an Arab country. America's problems are mostly not due to racism nor to poverty. Rabid liberalism is the root of all these issues.
@thepoetesskhansaa
Buddy I'm a black American man who's lived in this literally god forsaken country long enough to know that what you're saying will fall on deaf ears.
Thing is this rabid liberalism is essential to maintaining the status quo of us "racial minorities" and the underclass whites stay where we are while the rich stay at the top.
That's what this is all about really. Making sure those in power don't lose said power.
This is known.
Liberals have an automatic emotional response to everything, which overrides their logic and rational thought, so the simple concept of cause and effect is beyond their comprehension.
Yea the UK only locks away cigarettes and video games sometimes alcohol
Well said. The people in charge, and I mean, the people who're REALLY in charge of the West, and make all the real decisions, do this, seemingly, by design. They systematically gain total hidden power with a complex interlocking system that subverts real democracy and boosts the illusion of democracy to the common man.
So many things our grandparents took for granted have now become privileges. Free range kids who bike around on their own, in perfectly safe, clean suburbs are only now, found in high end gated communities.
Small mom & pop stores where they know you, located on a "main street", with parking lots in back, are only now found, in very affluent small towns. Maybe add; not-having-to-lock-your-doors, low crime, and good schools to that list.
Whats life like now to average suburbanites? Helicopter parenting mandated by law, high crime, illegal drugs and other temptations freely available to your kids, and substandard policing. Theres no longer any cute "Mayberry RFD" type towns.
Now its sprawling strip-malls, with big ugly parking lots out front. The architecture? Its modern, generic, and ticky-tacky. The schools fawn over problem kids at the expense of the normal ones. The emphasis is on gender, oppression, and self-esteem. Actual learning? Not so much.
Why are they doing this to us? What are they gaining? All fair questions.
Isn't it amazing how my local Target and Walmart, here in West Valley City/Magna, Utah, have not placed their products behind locked glass.... but, we do not have the gangs of looters, the rampant criminality that is so prevalent in NYC and Commiefornia. In this state kids are still raised with a sense of morality and decency.
Haha I grew up in west valley the one time meth capital of the US (little known fact), jokes aside - it’s a great city overall, love it and I’m glad they put in the effort to reshape valley fair mall because it was going to hell from gang fights until they slapped a deseret book store there. Used to work at the Kmart/sears on 5600 before it shut down and I loved watching our LP tackle shoplifters (they were police officers who took a part time gig in retail). Would move back in a heartbeat if the valley wasn’t consumed in smog (thanks Californians!).
honestly calling California "Commiefornia" is ironic and even an insult to the true commie states of the former Warsaw pact. Most of the things done by California go against the beliefs of the old Warsaw Pact (Defunding police, lgbtq rights, immigration)
@@PPMASTER1991 And so much of their policies are straight out of the Communist Manifesto... such as punishing the free exercise of speech, restricting the right to bear arms and defend oneself, one party control of elections.
@@PPMASTER1991I call it Fruit Loop Land myself. You're right though, this administration is more a dictatorship than any Socialist country.
I live in Florida and I have not seen any stores like that here.... Wonder why
If a store in a primarily black community has locked items, and the store is run by a black man, is it still racist? No, it's because crime is a very real thing. So how is it racist for other stores to take the same precautions?
I don't remember the name of the reporter but he did a report on racism. He interviewed a black guy and asked if he was racist. The guy said "No because black people can't be racist" (I've always loved that line because it's the literal definition of racism 🙄). Then he asked the black guy "Am I racist?" He said "yeah." Reporter asked "Why?" He said "Because you're white!" Reporter said "Actually I'm Mexican/Latino (don't remember which)". I think the black guy responded with "Well you look white so you're racist!" 🙄🤣😂
A C.R. theorist would tell you that racism is an institution and neither an act nor a behaviour, therefore racism is still at play no matter the race of the shopkeeper.
in the old days you would lose a hand for theft, nowadays you get a slap on the wrist.
That first girl lost all credibility when she said "I was literally fighting for my life in that store".
Probably AOC after her latest shopping trip: "I almost died!"
Omg. She endured the injustice that is waiting patiently. What an American hero 👏😒
Think it was just a way to phrase “In a huge crowd of people and it’s annoying”
These FOOLS don’t understand the meaning of the word literally.
She was LITERALLY fighting for her life. 🙄
The very definition of first world problems.
1:47
Literally 😂
they changed the deffintoin of the word "litterally". look in the most recent dictionary, or just give it a goog.
adverb
in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
"the driver took it literally when asked to go straight across the traffic circle"
INFORMAL
used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true.
"I was literally blown away by the response I got"
wild huh?
@@amp2193 OMGoodness, they did! That is wild.
Well, according to that other woman, Target sells items that black women have needed since the beginning of time 😂
The idea that companies want to inconvenience black women is off the charts delusional
And that they're spending extra money to go out of their way to do so too lol
@@adammcilmoyl4278Their expectation is that you accept on faith THEIR honest intentions, while simultaneously assuming YOUR evil motivations.
@sandman9924 it's racist to notice that those products have an unusually high theft rate, it's racist to take steps to stop the theft, and it's offensive to not just allow them to steal because reparations requires a 2lb bag of Reeces Pieces... lol. Don't steal shit and it won't get locked up. Cars have keys for the same reason, no one's getting bent out of shape about that tho lol
@@adammcilmoyl4278 Yeah. Security is EXPENSIVE. Especially when it is security on specific items, rather than just all-around general security.
In the olden days, you'd walk in, hand the clerk your list, and they'd get the stuff for you. You couldn't just browse and you couldn't shoplift, except from the VERY LIMITED amount of items on display at the front, that was just meant to entice people into the store, in the first place. Small things. TINY things. Like buttons, if you were at a cloth goods store.
That kind of all-around security was REALLY cheap, as you were only guarding a single area, with everything in it.
But when you break it down to start guarding individual items, in addition to the stuff in the back, you have to spend a LOT more. Not just having a security guard to catch the people who set off the alarm, but the cost of ALL those individual barcode alarms. The cost of ALL those locks on the skews. The cost of all those glass cases. The cost of additional security running and checking cameras and patrolling the store and the parking lot.
The cost of loss reduction, or whatever politically correct thing they're calling it these days is probably about 25% of the cost of doing business, if not more.
They want to inconvenience them so badly, that they inconvenience Everyone! (Sarcasm alert)
and then they wonder or complain that everybody buys online instead. weird stuff tbh. cant be so hard to fix this shop lifting issue in the US, whats taking them so long to do something about it?
I worked at Walmart a couple years ago for about a short stint of a year (My actual career ended up at a standstill, so needed a job to tide me over). I was a lower tier manager during that time. One thing I will tell you about these security devices and cases, is that an item will be added to the list based on theft statistics. That's it. If people started stealing bread at a high rate, it would also be secured. These people need to work in these stores before they open their Tiktok university infused mouths.
its generally all done by UPC code as well.
@@joshsiddoway True.
I've witnessed people put deodorant on in the store and put it back on the shelf like nothing happened. I've also witnessed people put laundry detergent into plastic water bottles, put them in their pockets and walk out the store. theft is theft. and that's why these items are behind glass. people keep stealing them.
Using deodorant and laundry products can present health & safety issues (alteration, etc).
My manager's son tried that with deodorant recently (in Ireland) and the store security guard escorted him to the till to buy the product he used!
I'm pretty sure the employee time (needed to unlock and lock the doors) is more expensive than the items occasionally stolen.
It's illogical.
And nothing to do with race; where did that come from?
I’m going to throw up.
I’ve seen an old lady in a grocery store open a can of jam, put her finger in it, lick it of her finger and do the same to the next jam on the shelf until she found one that she liked. Most disgusting store related memory I have.
I used to work at Ulta and our game plan when we think someone is stealing is to give them the best customer service possible. We will have all the employees going over to ask if they need help the entire time they are in the store. It usually makes them feel uncomfortable and like they are being watched. One time we had a man come in and he was acting super sus in the fragrance area so one of the employees walked up to offer “help”. He sparked up a convo with her and joked around and made her feel comfortable and then he found a way to work into the convo that he hates going into nice places like this because he’s always afraid we’ll think he’s stealing because he’s “a big black gay man” this of course made the employee feel uncomfortable and like maybe we had racially profiled him so she ended up leaving him alone. Turns out he stole three full sized fragrances. He was just waiting for her to walk away
Many years ago I would window shop where I go into stores just looking never buying. I'm a cheapskate minimalist who seldom buys anything and I would be annoyed when employees would interrupt me soon after entering the store asking if I needed help and I would tell them I'm just looking around and have no intention yet to shop. I found it annoying because I thought they were trying to get me to buy something. Maybe they were, but back then, because I had no intention to shoplift it wasn't on my mind that this was a way of monitoring or deterring shoplifting.
That guy sounded like a pro shoplifter.
Sounds like sometimes the stereotype exists for a reason.
Yeah that's what's taught across all Ulta's, that only works on the everyday jane who hasn't stolen in their life but might think about it, it doesn't work on the serial lifters, ours was hit constantly, all we could do was to just get out of their way and do the reports and call police.
@@tarablue4472 There is literally subreddits for casual retail theft where 'pros' teach new people the tricks like this, how to make employees uncomfortable, how to use distractions, how to quickly find side exits, even how to act with the police if they are on to you when you leave a store LMAO. This is the direct consequence of these dipsticks hearing in college constantly about how Capitalism Bad, therefore 'stealing from billionaires' aka any store ever even if it's a local mom n pop shop, is morally not just okay but good, because you're fighting The Man or whatever.
I recently went into a Target in Honolulu and even the socks and underwear were locked behind glass cabinets. This is starting to get ridiculous.
Not to mention how many women's bathrooms in Honolulu have removed the stall doors! 😳
I had to ask my sister to stand in front of the stall I was using, so no one would accidentally walk in while I'm peeing. 😅
I'm grateful the less-crowded islands have more user-friendly bathrooms! Hope they stay this way.
Our Wal-Mart has the socks behind glass and I always wondered why because I couldn't imagine socks being a popular item to steal. Later I was at a Wal-Mart in a better area and this one had socks in the open, but a few bags were marked down with those big yellow stickers they typically use for clearance food. It wasn't until I got them home that i noticed the hole in the bag. Apparently, people were just opening them in the store and stealing single pairs out of them and that's why the other Wal-Mart had to resort to glass cases for socks.
As a non-American not living in the US, I would advise Amala to go into politics and run for President. If so, I will apply for a citizenship just to get my vote in.
We’d love to have you. 😊
Not american here also.would be like a breath of fresh air no?
I don't think u need to be a citizen even to vote in some states there.
Our country needs someone 8n the middle far right and far left do not work.
big difference between a commentator and a fieldsman
I'm a white woman, and when I was in college a few years ago, I carried my backpack and walked almost everywhere, so I wasn't surprised when store employees shadowed me through my shopping. They weren't to know I wasn't just another thieving teen, so I didn't blame the store or the employees for being suspicious, I blamed shoplifting college kids for setting a stereotype that made it necessary for me to be seen as a potential problem for wearing a backpack. I even let them search my backpack a few times.
You can also ask them if you can leave the backpack behind the counter. Can help show trust.
@@zibix4562 I did do that at a couple smaller store, when I wasn't carrying my laptop.
I live in a college town. The closer you are to campus the more you see locked shelves and security in shops. There is a market just outside one of the entrances, they made the door super narrow and there is a small labirynth just before the cashier to avoid people running out with a bunch of stuff.
I'm a security officer for a plant which produces tortillas and similar products for Mexican restaurants. One of my duties is to monitor employees' backpacks/gear bags during shift changes. Many of them choose the clear plastic ones that some schools also insist upon, makes the job easier. Employees are also frequently given product to take home, but they must present a permission slip at the guard shack on the way out.
In Australia, by entering a store with a bag of any sort, you are giving consent for it to be searched by the store staff before you leave the store.
I hate how they use the excuse of “Essential item” to allow them to steal. They literally set up tables in their neighborhood to sell them to the community. It would be one thing if they were just giving them out to their fellow neighbors but NO they are using them for money. They don’t care about each other.
They jus' tryin' tuh feed they family.
@@Crow_T_Robotthat mindset, if others can feed their family without stealing, why can't they? aparently they wan't an easy money,,
In the UK during the 19th century and for much of the 20th century, all items were kept behind the counter, you would read the catalogue, hand the shopkeeper a list and the employees would bag it up for you and give you a price.
I will never understand the idea of screaming oppression into a smartphone
It's straight up just a way for people to vent frustration. She is litteraly powerless and the only thing that feels like she has control over is the audience she has. Not litteral just the concept of being agreeable to the masses is good enough for these people. It's better than going insane internalizing it and looking crazy to family.
@@halftimex25
Being agreeable would never enough for them, it's also not for the masses as the masses don't think like that, and I guarantee they still look like psycho's to their families. They're not GOING insane, they ARE.
@@halftimex25very well said
@@aviationgeek747 if only everything I said was as well thought out. 9/10 times I mistype or phrase something wrong and ruin my credibility immediately.
@@halftimex25 haha it happens
If people are told they are owed something for long enough they will end up taking it instead of working for it.
Working for things takes TIME.
I think it's instant gratification that causes this. And it's even more rewarding if it's effortless.
The scariest thing to me is that these people are so disconnected from reality that they don't understand it has nothing to do with race.
It's a report they get when they do inventory. If a certain item keeps showing up with a bunch of shrink (is stolen), it gets a lock.
It's not because black people like those items. It's because those items keep getting stolen.
You can draw whatever inferences you like from that, but it's not targeting anyone. It's trying to keep stock on the shelves. It's that simple
They dont care, these leftist wake up with the sole goal of finding racism at all costs. They dont care about cause and effect. They have shown time and time again that they are delusional and ignore any reality. The fact that their cities are becoming a shit hole becuase their logic attracts criminals and people who take advantage of these kinds of people.. somehow even after all THEIR laws get put into effect, its because racism.. 🤦🏻♂️
The makeup thing is hilarious because the system literally shows everyone which demographic is stealing the most makeup. 😂
@@Daniel-yl5jl1bi6q Oh, yeah. Clearly those computers are RACIST, because they don't make up lies about white make-up flying off the shelves, instead.
Thanks for clearing that up. Cause I was honestly wondering why there WERE locks on the dark makeup and not the light ones 🤷🏽♀️ I knew there had to be a reason, but Amala never gave us her input on that specifically.
@@estradavanessa82 cus you cant deny a certain race steal more than another.
something that's very common in Brazil is giant baskets for donations in front of supermarkets and you can donate clothes as long they're clean and in good shape but i don't really see that in the USA and also charity stuff where they don't only accept money but also clothes food and essentials donations and all. The only time I saw people get away with shoplifting was 1 case during the pandemic where a single mom lost her job and couldn't feed her 3 small kids, she them went to a supermarket and tried to steal baby formula and instant noodles she was arrested and people requested her freedom since her kids were alone later she said in a interview after she got out how ashamed she was :(
We have clothing donation bins at tractor supply stores. Other stuff you take to what are called thrift stores.
“I was fighting for my life in there”…. The true dystopian nightmare is this sheltered woman comparing being slightly inconvenienced at the store, picking up body wash to actual survival. Victimhood and drama is the new western state of mind.
She a clown for that 🤡
My parents fought for our lives to survive in tragic war whilst dodging landmines and carrying me and my sister on their backs. Her statement just makes a mockery of what we had to endure if she couldnt endure getting her body wash. They wouldn't last a day in the wild.
@thymo7889 well you don't have to live like that in America.
@@rrg69able So, since we don't have to live like that, the American equivalent is finding an employee to unlock the body wash?
@@thymo7889You're not fixing to claim generational trauma are you? It's not like you have anything to do with Cambodia or any of that. You're just telling tales you were told. I do agree with the sentiment, but these story time moments just sound like lies. Especially when the same story is plastered over and over in your comments in various descriptive narratives.
As I live in rural America, all the issues with looting and theft are not something I've had the pleasure to experience.
They're protecting criminals instead of the people. At some point the people will have to take matters into their own hands.
This is why we stay strapped ALL DAY EVERYDAY
The people ARE the ones protecting the criminals
So criminals aren't people?
@@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section the criminals are people who are only out for themselves. They don't do unto their neighbor as they wish to be done unto them.
@@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section
"I hated going into the city because there's so much surveillance" lol, what?
My daughter worked at a Target and said people would load up their shopping carts and just walk out without paying. There was nothing she could do about it.
My Mom before retirement her last job was at Old Navy and she was basically told not to do anything if someone was stealing stuff (And you have people that complain about allowing responsible citizens to arm themselves)...
"People"...
We know who lol
@@truck_yeah_440 white people steal -
As someone who has worked in inventory control for large retail chains, the decisions are made based on the shrinkage (theft) rate of skus and their monetary value. The people (or computers) making these decisions are looking at spreadsheets of numbers, not wandering around the store asking themselves what products are mostly used by blacks so they can lock them up and make their trips to the store more bothersome.
This is the consequences of voting for politicians who have abdicated their moral and ethical and legal responsibilities.
Such as Trump for instance...
You are the problem.
@@shiceggl4870 No. Trump did more for his one term than the last one term Dem (Biden) or the previous one term GOP (Bush_1).
@@GeorgieB1965and with how much of the system working against him? Seemed like he was fighting uphill into a gale force wind.
@@shiceggl4870I wonder if you people will use that…ahem.. conversation trump card for the rest of your sad, delusional lives. As someone who did not vote for trump, it’s pretty fuckin infuriating to see millions of people in this country turn a blind eye to all the serious issues or just do a “what about trump” anytime someone is talking about something completely unrelated to him. You all should be ashamed but you aren’t because you’re caught in an echo chamber of stupidity
I'm in a very very rural area and we've had a explosion of homeless and crime. My Walmart has locking out razors and care produces
You are 💯 right. I used to be a store investor for target corp. Since I was in charge of that stores security I was the one who was responsible for locking items up. We would get lost and the items that had the highest theft rates, would get marked for being locked up. That’s how it’s decided. I never not once thought. “Geee, I’ll get those ppl that don’t look like me, I’ll ruin their day by locking up the items they will need and they will have to ask for someone to unlock it!!!” Anyone who believes that needs to see a doctor, that’s serious narcissistic. To believe that you are the center of other peoples universe when they don’t even know you.
You make an excellent point. For systemic racism to be a thing, you have to have racists on every level of an organization, everyday people willing to perpetuate the racist policy. Which simply doesn’t happen in our society anymore.
Back in the '80's there was a retail concept called the catalog store. There was one of everything on the shelf (usually just a non-operating display model or empty box). You wrote down the inventory codes for everything you wanted, you payed for it, then an employee collected your items in the stockroom and brought it out to you. With the advances in technology, this might just be a thing we see return.
That's like Britain's argos but no catalogue now technology to order
Back in the 80s there was a social concept called the law.
And it was enforced.
Maybe, just maybe, that might be just the thing we need to see return.
That's Amazon. And you don't have to leave your house.
@@wrexchicane8259 While you're right, I hate that basically any small business is being driven out of business. But then people complain about capitalism / corporitism. All while basically running full-tilt toward it.
That's basically online shopping.
The losses due to theft have, in some locations, has become unsustainable. These are last-ditch efforts to keep a store open before they are forced to close and move on.
ever notice its in liberal citys that have lost cops and everything is ok to steal
That's what people seem to forget. Even if run by billion-dollar corporations, many stores have slim profit margins and require volume sales to be profitable. Some stores in urban areas already aren't profitable due to higher labor, insurance, and shrinkage costs, are subsidized by stores in wealthier areas-this is particularly true of grocery stores which usually have a 1-3% profit margin. Out of control theft makes these stores unsustainable.
This was very informative. For example I didn't realize that department stores were around since "the dawn of time".
I really wanted to hear the story about that first woman who was literally fighting for her life. In a freaking Target store. Details, please!
"Broke people steal. I'm shoplifting 💅"
What kind of sick joke is this
Especially since the Merriam-Webster definition of “shoplifting” is “to steal goods from a store”. 🤦🏼♂️🤣🤣
@@redoctober25 dont tell the leftists that they would refuse it and tell u that webster definition is incorrect
Ironically, shoplifting is *petty* theft.
So they changed the definition of racism, now they're changing the definition of stealing too?😅
When I am broke, I don't buy anything AND I don't steal!
It is possible to have moral values when you are broke.
We've got a very diverse community here in the midwest and we don't have these problems. certainly does hint that it's policy and culture in these cities that causes it, not race.
I thought chicago is in the midwest
@@martinehrlich3908Chicago is in a state, area, and country of its own. The rest of the state doesn't claim them. In fact, we wish they broke away and started their own state.
The vast majority of democrats live in Chicago/ Cook County and one southern Illinois city, the rest of the state of all pretty red.
Unfortunately the population of those two cities dominate the rest of the state, along with stealing a lot of our tax dollars to fund their lavish life styles. At least the democrat politicians and their friends.
The Midwest has the same problems, just smaller scale. I merchandised for a bit as a third party at Walmart in Northern Utah and theft automatically equaled lockup tags on several products. Makeup, electronics, formula . . . and only a handful of employees have keys so you have to wait for assistance since they’re often given assignments and work in a different zone than the lockup area.
Hello, Iowan here. It depends on the city. I have two cities that are both about an hour away from me that I could choose from to shop at bigger stores. If I go to Walmart in the city to the east of me they have a whole area for the makeup that's been separated from the rest of the store, has a dedicated employee manning a cash register there, you get something while you're in there you have to pay for it before you can leave. This is actually a relatively new development too, within the last 5 ish years. The Walmart to the west of me doesn't have that. Almost everything is open for you to grab. You can tell which city has a higher crime rate than the other. The higher crime rate city actually gets a lot of people moving from Chicago though, so it kind of makes sense that it's getting wrecked 🤷♀️.
@berklieapedaile5582 Yeah Utah native here. Property theft is the mass majority of the crime here Eben with the overall crime being very low a good 65-70% of Utahs crime is Theft and it always was at night when I worked at Walmart especially especially makeup and the small Onn brand TVs.
Amala, that was a masterpiece! Bullseye!! Thank you.
I remember when I was 4 or 5 in the mid 70’s and my brother and I stole a couple of lighters. My parents found out after we got home, made us take money out of our piggy banks and then took us back to the store to both pay for the lighters and give the lighters that we’d just paid for back. Lesson learned for us
Why pay for a lighter you gave back?
@@coltonsmith3724 Is this a serious question ?
@@coltonsmith3724 To learn not to steal? Punishment is a necessary part of learning to not fuck up.
@@coltonsmith3724 ???? You teach your children not to steal. Having to apologize and taking accountability is important. Also that this is the amount of money that this would have cost and now you don't have it anymore. To feel that.
I would honestly do the same.
Man it was 2 pieces of candy for me. Harder than going back to pay for it was having to tell the manager of my mis-deed. Has never happened again.😊
You could actually argue that the locking of items target black people, but then you also need to look at who’s doing 99% of the stealing….And i’m guessing none of these people are willing to do that.
Fuck it, I am. Stereotypes exist for a reason and then they want to cry victim.
It’s frustrating, especially when I share the same color so I get thrown in the mix.
Obviously it’s not all blacks but when watch who is stealing on social media the vast majority is black.
Look at Detroit and Chicago, prime examples.
Yeah I mean the corporations just look at the items with the biggest shrink rate are the ones they put security tags on. Same thing with the laundry detergent, the name brands(tide, gain, downy) are behind locked cabinet doors, because they cost the most and get stolen the most. It’s not just skin care products, but of course they like to use that as “proof” of racism. It literally comes down to bottom dollar, because those corporations only care about one color and that’s GREEN😂
And when we point it out, they probably think we're saying black people are inherently thieves, which then discredits us and labels us as racist. What we're really saying is that there is a culture of shoplifting that happens to be more prevalent to the black population. Why? Racial, generational taught behavior (or even peer pressure).
100% of stealing in first world nation is done by people with a personality disorder.
Nobody has to steal to survive; there are always other options.
That's honestly all I care about. I want to know what kind of mindset/culture allows for this behavior and then fix that. Skin color is but a decoy topic, and we all fall for it one way or another.
Thats the saddest part of this, the leftists cant even imagine anything other than racism, they cant fathom the thought that these big corps have records to show what is stolen from them the most and what is typically never stolen.
There used to be a store called service merchandise. Everything on the sales floor was a sample. You wrote down the product number and went to the cashier. Then, after being rung up, you went to another counter to pick up your merchandise. Everything came from shelves in the back. You never picked up anything off the shelves yourself.
Sounds like your standard trade store. When I did handyman stuff this was how it was at the plumbing, electrical and appliance part store. Those racists!
Argos operates on this model too. The shop is essentially just a room with catalogues to browse to find the codes for the items you want.
I loved Service! Was a fun shopping time as a kid!
They might need to bring this method back!
Consumers Distributing 1975-1990 it was great no issues getting the item 5 minutes in and out.
Happening in Europe too. We had a security advisor that was tired of being correct and just told us to watch the migrants.
The insanity of it all is what totally blows my mind. How people just have the audacity to use the race card is beyond my comprehension. The lack of accountability, morality, respect, honesty…I just can’t 😢
It also seems to me like there's a lack of actual conversation and explanation. A lot of people, even in this comment section, didn't know how the "jailed" products were chosen until they had to manage a store themselves. Of course it's difficult to have an honest discussion about it nowadays, it seems.
In my area, stuff like this isn't locked up. It's probably because we are a multi-racial, middle-class, school-going, church-going, law-abiding community that doesn't put together crime mobs and steal stuff en masse. 🤷♀
what city? i'll google the demo.
Church is irrelevant
@@amp2193 It's not like this in Colorado Springs. Or, at least, not on my side of town. It'd be damn frustrating if it was, that's for sure.
I shop a few Office Depots for work, though, and I've noticed that some of them lock up a LOT of items, whereas my nearby one locks up almost nothing. There is one Wal-Mart that might be like this... but I haven't been to that one in years, so I can't say for certain.
BLACK ⚫️ 🐈⬛️ ◼️ ⬛️ ♟️ LIVES MATTER and only theirs.......and don't you forget that
yup- the best buy closest to us but in a not great area has a officer nearly full time at a desk by the entrance and the cars always outside. everything is locked up. like u cant get a charger cord or block without someone pulling it out of a case. went a little further away and there’s no desk, no officer, and a lot more product available to take to the register yourself. It was a much easier time not feeling like your bothering someone who has to babysit you with what u want to look at and buy. heaven forbid u change your mind and want something else, making the employee go back - open the case etc! And of course you don’t get to really look over something when it’s behind glass either… only thing it’s done is helped me spend less because i don’t want to be a bother to employees so i get what i needed and that’s it- no browsing or impulse buying, which is a lot of a businesses income!
This has always been a thing. A high theft area gets put behind glass. At my local Walmart, they had a register installed in the beauty department and ALL products are blocked off behind glass. They even made it so that you have to pass by the register to enter/exit the department. On top of all that, the employee is not allowed to give you the product until you've paid for it. You are given no opportunity to steal.
In my walmart, the rainbow high dolls in the toy section are locked in a metal cage, I kid you not. Apparently, those toys had such a high theft and resell rate they were forced to do it. It's kinda scary to see in the kids toy section, but there you are.
That's how it was behind the iron curtain.
In Australia almost all the stores have to do this with Pokemon cards.
@@AnthonyHeaton-ih6rkNo it wasn't...
@@AnthonyHeaton-ih6rk Not since the 1970s. My grandma remembers regular grocery stores (with obvious soviet caveats of low selection etc)
Do these people not see people walking out of Walmart with shopping carts full of stolen stuff wow !!
A family member was a manager at a Rite Aid and the shoplifting was rediculous and they basically werent allowed to do anything to stop it. We are raising a generation of animals.
Amd they will go abroad as Americans and demand to be treated as such.
@@siewheilou399America is ruined
My daughter worked Walmart in a really busy area. Had the same issue of not being able to do anything about it.
WA state metro area.
We need to go back to stealing being a crime that gets charged and prosecuted and then the person who did it goes to jail when convicted.
And then what? Supposing their sentence is finite, they must eventually be released, and if the underlying reasons for them committing theft remain the same, they will likely do it again. In this case I hope you are prepared for the government to pay for increasing prison bed counts. Perhaps it incenses you that you have to share a country with these sorts of people, but I see no reason to believe you can arrest and prosecute your way out of this problem.
Deterrence = less crime. The problem is a lack of consequence results in a lack of deterrence. I live in a big city. We never had organized gangs raiding stores or similar levels of open, brazen street crime in broad daylight until prosecutors said they wouldn’t prosecute. Now, with the approach you suggest firmly in place, that’s the result. Things got worse not better.
@@doliver5447 Only reason I can think of to not prosecute is that the prosecutor is so swamped with other cases to get around to it. But if you have the suspect and you have the evidence, I don't see why anyone wouldn't prosecute. But I don't live in your wild-west society.
My Wild West society is the City of Chicago where the consequences of cutting law enforcement resources are real and not theoretical or speculative in any way.
@@doliver5447 That assumes jail is a deterrent where you are given food and health care. Which most people in these high crime areas can't afford. There are people who are literally committing crime to go to jail so they can live. Or that stealing was a crime in cities unless it was against the rich and powerful directly. I have lived in cities for half my life now. While prosecutors didn't say they wouldn't go after petty theft, everyone knew that petty theft would not be prosecuted...assuming the police did anything to begin with. What's changed is culture. Stealing is not just accepted...it's CELEBRATED. People brag about how much they stole instead of being ashamed they had to steal. Hell stealing and doing property damage is now a GAME for kids.
Sad thing is, that the shoplifting issue you have in the US is also starting in Germany. There have been news reports in the past weeks that grocery stores are literally raided by immigrants and when security or store workers try to bring them to justice those immigrants draw the racist card... Greeting from Germany, Amala. You are doing great work.
Im finding it funny that people from other countries who chimed in saying a border wall in the US is racist, and now they have higher crime rates from immigrants. Sad, but necessary for people to learn I suppose..
Many have zero respect for the countries they went to. They are there to take advantage of the West's social services and compassion. They have zero roots or pride for their new homeland. They don't care about the countries values, culture, laws, language, etc. They are a tool used by the elite, so the western nations that are being destroyed on purpose can't rise up as a people with a common culture, language, values etc to rally around as something to fight for together to fight back and defend their homeland from destruction for the global agenda. It's all by design.
Happening in the UK too. Mostly London by the looks of it, but defo happens in the UK. The price of items will also go up, since insurance will go up for stores in certain areas. Until these people are harshly dealt with, it will keep happening, and probably get worse.
Belgium too and it is apparently so rampant that as a customer you already can find signs of theft!!! I found 2 opened boxes of crackers in a supermarket, the content was missing!! I told an employer and she said theft is becoming a huge problem!! Yikes!!
@@wolverine343534 Dont forget our government is dedicated to owning all the farm land! Goes hand in hand with your point about price increases. Population is so much easier to control while food scarcity is present.
Make all stores member only. That way Target could pre-screening customers and only allow those that do not have criminal records to shop there. Your membership car could be used to unlock display cases.
“I hated going to the target in the city! There is so much security!”
Well lady, if your so hurt by the locks then tell your buddies to stop stealing everything they can get there hands on. Maybe then the stores will chill with the locks and security.
It’s not meant to hurt your feelings, the locks are meant to make sure product stays on the shelves until BOUGHT
It’s their cousins, some how in some way they’re all cousins to each other
@@themarine1100don't assume all black people are cousins
@@themarine1100that racist
racist
@@Numericll and what did I say that seemed racist too you? I’m quiet curious of your opinion considering I said no such thing that would be considered racist. Only truth.
Numbers are numbers. If the darker color makeup is stollen most often statistically thats what will be locked up. Lol
Common sense at its best !!!!! 👌
😂😂 but that leads to hard questions for the liberal mind. They can't let the queens be seen as bad in the bonnet filled sandals wearing target stores.
Ironically, if Target stopped locking the black makeup up and allowed them to keep getting stolen while the other makeup tones were still on the shelves, black women would complain that Target wasn't being "inclusive" and that they don't cater to them. Target locking them up actually works in black womens favor, because it guarantees that they will always have what they're looking for anytime they go to the store and won't have to hear "sorry we're out of stock".
Theft has become a real problem in urban areas. Last Sunday morning ,my fiance ran to the local grocery,and he couldn't believe all the people that were walking out without stopping at the registers. I'm sure when that store(the last grocery left in our neighborhood) closes,everyone here will blame the store chain.
They'll complain about food deserts because they never understand the consequences of their actions.
As the song says, Try that in a small town. They wouldn't get away with that where I live. And the whole town would know when they got arrested, It would be all over facebook.
@@queenofprops is because a lot of black people want to be on the plantation & that's exactly what the left is building in these cities. A giant plantation of people dependant on the government. Communism 101 & all you need to do is read Animal Farm because it's exactly the same shit.
Just now came out of Walmart and watched a man run straight out with a full cart. Bet you can't guess what race he was. They're (you know who) doing this to themselves and all us who actually pay for our stuff before walking out are paying for it. I was crying because all my stuff has gone up at least 50%. Bought 7 items and spent $103.00
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He's just hunting and gathering like his father, father's father, father's father's father.
@@amp2193I
You might say he hailed from Paris
That's not just because of theft, the invasion of Ukraine really upended a lot of major trade and production lines, which hurt China, which further hurt their ability to deliver products, etc. etc.
"I was literally fighting for my life in that store"
I can't take seriously anyone who speaks this way; she didn't even appear to be joking. And then the lunatic parade played after that clip was even worse-- what is happening to people?
It's what happens when people go through life never knowing any real hardship
Yeah, surely she looked at that before she posted it. What a ridiculous thing to say
That line really made her look privileged and out of touch with reality...some people will never know how lucky they are.
It was a rhetorical device
@@JamesChatting I'm sorry, I just cannot stomach this constant use of the word "literally" to mean literally anything but "literally", which seems to be super common among Millennials and the generation after them. The speaker almost always comes off with the affect of a 14 year-old girl.