Retail theft has become such a problem for Safeway, that the grocery store chain has added advanced security measures around the Bay Area. Da Lin reports. (7-14-23)
@@perrymason4208 No. Stop repeating the myth that it costs more to prosecute criminals and there are not enough resources. It is now proven it costs even more to NOT prosecute criminals because it emboldens more criminals to commit more crimes. Prosecuting criminals sets the example for other people to reconsider committing the crime in the first place. If you want shopkeepers and landowners to be responsible, stop banning guns. SF does not get to defund the police, ban the effective means to protect yourself and not respond to 911 calls immediately all at the same time and then are surprised crime goes up.
No since slavery ended we should free them fully and send them back to Africa. Their tribes await and I'm sure many a goat shall be cooked and prepared on their arrival!
So, lets think this through for a minute. A thief who doesn't give a sh*t about anyone or anything else, is going to be deterred by a glass barrier that will not open unless they have a receipt to open it. Yeah, I am sure that will meaningfully cut down on shoplifting.
And what about the thief who waits and runs out right behind an honest customer. And how tough are those clear panels anyway? Thought the pole thing was sort of silly. Did they think some big dude would be stopped by that pole. I like the Idea but they need to have it about 6 feet high if not more. Just for arguments sake what happens if you should have to evacuate the whole store. And yes better enforcement once arrested might help too.
So sad that it has come to this. If these chronic thieves don't see some serious jail time this will continue to get worse, and we will lose these businesses. Sick and Tired!
What happens if a shooter is in the store? Have they taken this into consideration? Someone trying to get out and not get shot could be injured because the anti theft system wouldn’t open. I’m just as tired as the next person because the honest people are the ones who suffer because criminals have more rights. Think about it, if you’re a good person but need a lawyer well that’s expensive but if your a criminal you get one for free.
Even worse than that is some retailers have their emergency exits on time delay, such as 15 seconds, before opening. That's a long time to wait in an emergency. Sadly, some jurisdictions allow them despite the significant safety risks.
What's new is old again. Remember Service Merchandise? If they were still around, they'd being seeing a resurgence in business. As for the old general store model, curbside pickup is a modern version of that. Some love it, but has its drawbacks versus actually seeing the items first before paying. Members only stores is another way to reduce theft.
The truth is as big as the sky Democrats do not prosecute criminals Crime and drugs are legal in liberal cities Unless you are being sarcastic, you must live under a rock
It's no longer thieves blamed for stealing, it's your fault for allowing them access to your stuff to steal. What's next, leave your house unlocked & people legally can rob your house? Just prosecute them properly & this will go back to what it used to be FFS
Your comment sounds stupid asf. First off, none of the stores allows people to access their stuff to steal. Those stuff are supposed to be brought and be paid after checking out. Also, robbing a house is illegal regardless. There are people who leaves their house unlocked but that’s because they forgot to lock it. It doesn’t give a right for people to steal.
It was like a maze getting out of the Safeway store I went to shop at, the worker was irritated and told me "girl go around" I was pissed and went down 3 aisles before I was able to leave!!!!
Between all the locked displays that have to be opened by an employee in order to pick out your item, and the exit gates that have to be waited in line for and activated by a receipt or an employee, imagine how long a typical grocery-shopping trip is going to take. I don't know about the crooks, but it would deter me from shopping there.
Locked displays are causing me to increase my online shopping. I foresee brick & mortar stores disappearing unless politicians and law enforcement start prosecuting thieves instead of coddling them.
@@weeziepuff13maybe that's the ultimate goal: eliminate bricks and mortar stores, and employees. Just use automated fulfillment centres to deliver groceries.
I do all my shopping from the comfort of home and select pickup from store; it takes only about five to get it from pickup. No lines, no hassles, and I never got Covid!
@@userofmars There's nothing "lol" about this. A few bad individuals are affecting the pleasant enjoyment of life for the other 95% of us. Do the crime, do the time.
@@userofmars tough on crime means harsher punishments. Indicative of instead of theft being a misdemeanor (aka slap on the wrist) and covered by insurance policy, if theft is considered a felony, you can do serious jail time. But the government sees that if it's too harsh they'll loose tax paying voters on their side. Gov wins with extra tax revenue-upon the excuse that big corps can say they bump up prices twice as high because of 3-8% theft in their inventory.
I laughed when I heard they say to ' slow down ' store thefts. A simple way to rectify the situation they never used. Raise the penalty to 5 - 10 years in jail once caught. Results guaranteed !
Those gates only will work if the security actually does something about said shoplifters, otherwise "alarm will sound" is just going to annoy the people shopping there. That said went there for ice cream the other day, and got major sticker shocker of $8 for a tub of ice cream, and was like "f*** this, I'm leaving..." but the futuristic glass doors kept me in, and there wasn't anyone there to push that button to let me out, the security guard came over and he had no idea how to open the door said we had to wait until someone bought something and run out when they scan the ticket... BTW great job KPIX now any shoplifter watching this video knows exactly where the open button is located.
Not going to stop anyone, store employees aren't allowed to interfere with shoplifters so when they get to the glass doors they will either just smach thru them or tell the person at the glass doors to open them or something might happen and they will do it cause they aren't allowed to interfere.
My sister who ironically is a DA in California says the Justice system doesn’t care about petty crime and mentioned car break ins as being petty, you can only imagine how they feel about petty theft
It's a mess there. In California, the government there is encouraging crime by being lax on it overall and this is the end result. Even worse is despite the obvious results, they aren't changing course. That's a big red flag, and they can't see they're just screwing themselves and others over by discouraging business overall.
I work in retail. All it takes is the wrong customer. A customer in a desperate mindset will leave with something and will leave a mess. I seen it happened.
Why not start arresting and demand these criminals be charged and prosecuted and serve time in prison for what they are doing instead of spending more money on crap that’s not going to stop criminals. Stop allowing city and state leaders to say they won’t arrest criminals who steal up to a certain amount…demand those leaders take responsibility for the money these stores lose….because in the end it ends up hurting the regular citizens if they have to pay more for their products and that’s not fair to law abiding citizens.
It’s an inconvenience to the honest people. And it’s a shame when people say mind your own business. Either way we all become victims of this ignorance.
I would pass a law that says if you steal, you will lose your hands since you aren’t using it correctly.. if there is a death penalty, then there should be a limb penalty..
Katherine Albrecht has been talking about this for the last 20 years saying how gradually customers will finally accept it "Your papers please" society.
I work at a grocery store too and there have been too many thief going on. A group of guy’s stole and I caught one of them one them as they try to run out of the store and he hit me with a few punch, in return I hit hit him with one of my own punches and he cry victim. We got their license plates and the cops went and caught them at the house the next day. Because it was an assault and battery of one the guys for throwing a hand size rock at my manager chest and for hitting me.
I saw 2 girls stealing from Safeway last night. They had a full cart in the aisle, they bagged some of it in plastic bags, then just walked out through the entrance
The irony of turning stores into prisons instead of putting thieves in prisons. Any store that does this I simply dont shop and order in for the rest of my shopping needs.
I asked my friend who lives in another country why there are no crimes in his country? He told me the punishment for stealing is getting your hands chopped off, so nobody steals.
They should have a scanner on the side as well so you don’t have to turn the receipt upside down. I’m sure there are other measures they could take but this is a good first step
One of my friends went to the Bay area and had to go into Safeway for a few things and told me she was really surprised at the ramp and theft and the ramped up security. Very very sad. And also a few of them have closed down in other Bay area cities.
I worked on Long Island for ShopRite supermarkets as an LP, our rate of success for catching shoplifters was near 100% mainly because most of the security staff are police officers who moonlight off duty. They are the only ones who are actually allowed to physically apprehend anyone caught shoplifting.
Nest of brazen thieves is hidden right in the heart of the City. The next target of those brazen thugs is to chase those grocery stores out of town just because they believe they can, like what they did to those big names retailers in downtown San Francisco in the past few months.
One of our local Safeway stores had added some methods..one is you can't leave without going through a checkout... problem is, one Safeway is located close to a high school and every lunch and end of school day the store is mobbed by teens filling their pockets and laughing. I asked about one manager whether they had a certain item and he couldn't tell me because they have trouble keeping an inventory due to the amount of theft. BELIEVE IT!
could you imagine if a person saw them putting stuff in there pockets and did what my dad would have done. Take off your belt, come up behind them and just start whipping there asses. until they take the items out of there pockets and drop them and then push them out of the store. that would be embarassing to me.
I'm sure there's an emergency override. Building codes are very strict, and do not allow for entry ways to actually be blocked. All locked doors leading to the outside MUST allow quick opening from the inside, in case if an emergency. That's the law. So these doors I'm sure have some override mechanism, even if the store doesn't talk about it (not wanting to encore theft by telling crooks the door can be overriden).
We might as well just go back to the old retail model where everything is behind a counter and the clerk retrieves it for you. The public obviously can no longer be trusted.
Safeway promised to pay 20 yuan per hour, but it turned out to be 15.99 per hour, and after two months, it was changed to 20 yuan, and other arrears were said to be paid, but six months later, it was not paid, and the store manager also said that many people did not pay, I reported to the Labor Bureau, and it was soon paid. But there are a lot of people who do it for a short time and then quit
I think it would be best if the exit and entry had a metal door/bars that go up to at least 6ft so no one can jump over it or kick through it. Also there needs to be stiff consequences for criminals in order to deter crime.
So now they can park near the side and rear emergency exits and open those doors. I will not be surprised if they get hit with fire safety code violations because of those gates, you must have a quick egress in case of fire and evacuations.
Its easier to let the theft go unnoticed because of lack of manpower, $100,000 a year to house and feed prisoner, not enough prisons or jails. It is what it is and you like it or try and find somewhere else to live because it probably wont get better.
The barcode on the receipt probably is a high data density code like qr code, and encodes data for all purchased items. The scanner probably has multiple checks, including comparing that qr code to rthe database of recent purchases made at checkstands, and likely also integrated security camera AI powered image analysis, to visually verify the contents of the cart automatically. If the security camera sees (via its ai algorithm) too many items in the cart, compared to the receipt just scanned, it won't open the gate.
I used to love getting lunch at safeway because of how quick and easy i could get food and still have enough time to eat, looks like I can't do that as easily anymore. :(
THIS dude down the block from where i live is ALWAYS stealing from stores. When they do catch him, he's just in jail for 24hrs and is released again. THis is why it's never gonna stop!!!
Lol, maybe this makes things a little more difficult. However, people can still steal by not correctly accounting for all items or just evade paying altogether by jumping over the security gates or destroying them. The legal system has to enforce accountability, but prosecutors don’t have time for these petty crimes.
Doing everything BESIDES punishing criminals.
People who cant afford to eat*
You know what else would deter retail theft? Enforcing the laws on the books and punishing criminals…
There aren't enough resources, some of this is on the shopkeepers and landowners.
It's called reparations
@@perrymason4208 No. Stop repeating the myth that it costs more to prosecute criminals and there are not enough resources. It is now proven it costs even more to NOT prosecute criminals because it emboldens more criminals to commit more crimes. Prosecuting criminals sets the example for other people to reconsider committing the crime in the first place.
If you want shopkeepers and landowners to be responsible, stop banning guns. SF does not get to defund the police, ban the effective means to protect yourself and not respond to 911 calls immediately all at the same time and then are surprised crime goes up.
Or just paying people a living wage and preventing corporate price gouging and wage theft.
No since slavery ended we should free them fully and send them back to Africa. Their tribes await and I'm sure many a goat shall be cooked and prepared on their arrival!
So, lets think this through for a minute. A thief who doesn't give a sh*t about anyone or anything else, is going to be deterred by a glass barrier that will not open unless they have a receipt to open it. Yeah, I am sure that will meaningfully cut down on shoplifting.
Exactly, look at bart and muni gates😊
Exactly my thoughts: these guys are athletic - they’ll jump over the electronic barriers or if they can’t, they’ll break them. LOL!
And what about the thief who waits and runs out right behind an honest customer. And how tough are those clear panels anyway? Thought the pole thing was sort of silly. Did they think some big dude would be stopped by that pole. I like the Idea but they need to have it about 6 feet high if not more. Just for arguments sake what happens if you should have to evacuate the whole store. And yes better enforcement once arrested might help too.
Barrier is above $950 or whatever free shoplifting limit, need to jump not break
Democrats are doing a great job destroying San Francisco
If you steal from the thieves they really get mad! Ironic isn’t it .
Meanwhile in other normal states none of these measures are needed
Which normal state has 0 crime?
Now instead of paying for theft you’ll pay the billion dollar bill for the tech………
So sad that it has come to this. If these chronic thieves don't see some serious jail time this will continue to get worse, and we will lose these businesses. Sick and Tired!
Amen😊
The usual suspect don't care they go next business
Blame the politicians and judges letting them go free.
Then soon we will have to order everything online.
Could not have Said It Better.
What happens if a shooter is in the store? Have they taken this into consideration? Someone trying to get out and not get shot could be injured because the anti theft system wouldn’t open. I’m just as tired as the next person because the honest people are the ones who suffer because criminals have more rights. Think about it, if you’re a good person but need a lawyer well that’s expensive but if your a criminal you get one for free.
They might have a system to de-activate all of them in an emergency, but that still means someone has to have the presence of mind to activate it.
of course they didn't think of that. these donkeys don't consider repercussions.
Even worse than that is some retailers have their emergency exits on time delay, such as 15 seconds, before opening. That's a long time to wait in an emergency. Sadly, some jurisdictions allow them despite the significant safety risks.
Looks like they need gun metal detectors when you walk in too.
First thing I said when I walked in
... Rats in a cage
I can't see how the fire department allowed this.
They'll have to go back to the old counter service type of shopping. This is how groceries were sold 100+ years ago.
i agree there not saving money with self checkout
What's new is old again. Remember Service Merchandise? If they were still around, they'd being seeing a resurgence in business. As for the old general store model, curbside pickup is a modern version of that. Some love it, but has its drawbacks versus actually seeing the items first before paying. Members only stores is another way to reduce theft.
Honestly we need to go back to having more checkout staff, creates more jobs. But we look to technology to save from everything now
What if there is an emergency and people have to get out of the store quickly?
Well then you leave without purchasing items if it's that big of an emergency. You can come back later to purchase.
We have to ask ourselves why this is not happening in most other states and only in some states. The truth is there and being hidden.
The truth is as big as the sky
Democrats do not prosecute criminals
Crime and drugs are legal in liberal cities
Unless you are being sarcastic, you must live under a rock
Yup…. Not happening in SC because they will go to jail.
It is. Alot of stores closing thruout USA.
@@spicyirwin5835 only in cities where liberals decided to make stealing a way of life.
If I were Safeway, I would have permanently closed down.
All stores should leave high crime no punishment cities.
It's no longer thieves blamed for stealing, it's your fault for allowing them access to your stuff to steal. What's next, leave your house unlocked & people legally can rob your house? Just prosecute them properly & this will go back to what it used to be FFS
Your comment sounds stupid asf. First off, none of the stores allows people to access their stuff to steal. Those stuff are supposed to be brought and be paid after checking out. Also, robbing a house is illegal regardless. There are people who leaves their house unlocked but that’s because they forgot to lock it. It doesn’t give a right for people to steal.
Pertty soon safeway will be moving out of town. Do right, stop stealing
It was like a maze getting out of the Safeway store I went to shop at, the worker was irritated and told me "girl go around" I was pissed and went down 3 aisles before I was able to leave!!!!
What if you dont buy anything? How do you leave the store?
Between all the locked displays that have to be opened by an employee in order to pick out your item, and the exit gates that have to be waited in line for and activated by a receipt or an employee, imagine how long a typical grocery-shopping trip is going to take. I don't know about the crooks, but it would deter me from shopping there.
Especially during the holiday season. 🎃🎄
Locked displays are causing me to increase my online shopping. I foresee brick & mortar stores disappearing unless politicians and law enforcement start prosecuting thieves instead of coddling them.
@@weeziepuff13maybe that's the ultimate goal: eliminate bricks and mortar stores, and employees. Just use automated fulfillment centres to deliver groceries.
I do all my shopping from the comfort of home and select pickup from store; it takes only about five to get it from pickup. No lines, no hassles, and I never got Covid!
One of the Safeways in Vallejo had to upgrade like this. Every other time I would go there, security would be dealing with an addict.
We don't need all these little gimmicks, we need to be TOUGH ON CRIME.
What does that mean lol??????!
@@userofmars There's nothing "lol" about this.
A few bad individuals are affecting the pleasant enjoyment of life for the other 95% of us. Do the crime, do the time.
@@userofmars tough on crime means harsher punishments. Indicative of instead of theft being a misdemeanor (aka slap on the wrist) and covered by insurance policy, if theft is considered a felony, you can do serious jail time. But the government sees that if it's too harsh they'll loose tax paying voters on their side. Gov wins with extra tax revenue-upon the excuse that big corps can say they bump up prices twice as high because of 3-8% theft in their inventory.
They would mean you’d have to be tough on them and hurt their feelings. Not on my watch!
I laughed when I heard they say to ' slow down ' store thefts. A simple way to rectify the situation they never used. Raise the penalty to 5 - 10 years in jail once caught. Results guaranteed !
5-10 years is still a joke, it biblical times they used to cut off your hand, not that will deter people.
@@edition-deluxewith the way things are, I would fully support cutting off hands for stealing
@@redpilledhispanic1239 I would too.
Crime…in California? Nah…there’s bigger fish to fry. Climate change and not using correct pronouns.
I thought it was just me who laughed at that part too. They need to toughen up the penalties and stop being afraid to confront the thieves.
What happens if you buy one item, get a receipt, then steal several other items? Does scanner know what you have?
The sensor on the glass gate would probably detect the items not scanned and then the alarm would probably go off
If this doesn’t work, the groceries go in back room cages. Like at an auto parts store. Wild.
If you put a mandatory 25000 bail, this will increase the city revenue plus deter repeat offenders
DA is doing her job getting tough on crimes. The SF judges are the problem. They don’t convict the bad guys.
You are not from the US, are you? In the US, Judges don’t convict people, that is jury’s job.
@@UT48D Doesn’t matter about term. Check what SF DA complains about the judges not putting her arrested criminals into jails.
Those gates only will work if the security actually does something about said shoplifters, otherwise "alarm will sound" is just going to annoy the people shopping there.
That said went there for ice cream the other day, and got major sticker shocker of $8 for a tub of ice cream, and was like "f*** this, I'm leaving..." but the futuristic glass doors kept me in, and there wasn't anyone there to push that button to let me out, the security guard came over and he had no idea how to open the door said we had to wait until someone bought something and run out when they scan the ticket... BTW great job KPIX now any shoplifter watching this video knows exactly where the open button is located.
Should sue them for detaining you illegally.
Loved it at 2:14 when the announcer said that the long poles will stop thief of carts.
Safeway is always more expensive. I get a tub for 3$ at Walmart or just make it myself with a blender (and protein scoops to make it nutritious).
Not going to stop anyone, store employees aren't allowed to interfere with shoplifters so when they get to the glass doors they will either just smach thru them or tell the person at the glass doors to open them or something might happen and they will do it cause they aren't allowed to interfere.
Good luck!
I'll give it 6 months before they, too, close shop and leave San Francisco!
Like everyone else!
My sister who ironically is a DA in California says the Justice system doesn’t care about petty crime and mentioned car break ins as being petty, you can only imagine how they feel about petty theft
Like Barney Fife used to say, "Nip it! Nip it in the bud!"
Until it happens to them. Then they take all steps necessary because they can.
@@oldtwinsna8347 Exactly. Unless it impacts that person (of authority) directly, nothing will be done.
It's a mess there. In California, the government there is encouraging crime by being lax on it overall and this is the end result. Even worse is despite the obvious results, they aren't changing course. That's a big red flag, and they can't see they're just screwing themselves and others over by discouraging business overall.
Until they’re robbed
I sure hope when a fire or earthquake happens, those ADA compliant measures work😒
Good point
take your complaints to the DA, judges and the thugs creating this situation.
Most doors are required to have emergency measures to prevent being trapped in an emergency.
I work in retail. All it takes is the wrong customer. A customer in a desperate mindset will leave with something and will leave a mess. I seen it happened.
this is unlawful detainment. you can’t force someone from leaving with their own property
Time to vote out the Mayor and all of the Board of Supervisors!
Damn cant these companies just lobby for stricter laws? They need to sue the city and state
they're conflicted... forced to apply DEI in corporate
it costs the state about $100,000 to house and feed each prisoner each year.
It's not worth it. It's better to close shop and go to a better managed state for business, and I can't blame them.
What if the thief gets deterred by the glass panels when trying to escape? His feelings could be hurt!
Why not start arresting and demand these criminals be charged and prosecuted and serve time in prison for what they are doing instead of spending more money on crap that’s not going to stop criminals. Stop allowing city and state leaders to say they won’t arrest criminals who steal up to a certain amount…demand those leaders take responsibility for the money these stores lose….because in the end it ends up hurting the regular citizens if they have to pay more for their products and that’s not fair to law abiding citizens.
It’s an inconvenience to the honest people. And it’s a shame when people say mind your own business. Either way we all become victims of this ignorance.
cut thief hand. that will cut down
Just like Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
I would pass a law that says if you steal, you will lose your hands since you aren’t using it correctly.. if there is a death penalty, then there should be a limb penalty..
Katherine Albrecht has been talking about this for the last 20 years saying how gradually customers will finally accept it "Your papers please" society.
I work at a grocery store too and there have been too many thief going on. A group of guy’s stole and I caught one of them one them as they try to run out of the store and he hit me with a few punch, in return I hit hit him with one of my own punches and he cry victim. We got their license plates and the cops went and caught them at the house the next day. Because it was an assault and battery of one the guys for throwing a hand size rock at my manager chest and for hitting me.
I saw 2 girls stealing from Safeway last night. They had a full cart in the aisle, they bagged some of it in plastic bags, then just walked out through the entrance
“They’re just going to kick right through it” 🤣
The irony of turning stores into prisons instead of putting thieves in prisons.
Any store that does this I simply dont shop and order in for the rest of my shopping needs.
I asked my friend who lives in another country why there are no crimes in his country? He told me the punishment for stealing is getting your hands chopped off, so nobody steals.
They have the same system in the Netherlands. But I can't see how it can help if no one even wants to confront the criminals.
😅 I guess you can't go into the grocery store and not buy anything and walk out you going to need a receipt?
They should have a scanner on the side as well so you don’t have to turn the receipt upside down. I’m sure there are other measures they could take but this is a good first step
Nothing can stop a thief there’s always a way
Safe to say that if you see one of these then you are in a bad neighborhood...
One of my friends went to the Bay area and had to go into Safeway for a few things and told me she was really surprised at the ramp and theft and the ramped up security. Very very sad. And also a few of them have closed down in other Bay area cities.
What's to stop a thief from tailgating a legitimate shopper thru the exit?
How about heavy prosecution for theft?
This is better than not having it
How about going to jail for theft and not getting out for 2 years?
They just gonna run through those
…and they’re mostly black
I worked on Long Island for ShopRite supermarkets as an LP, our rate of success for catching shoplifters was near 100% mainly because most of the security staff are police officers who moonlight off duty. They are the only ones who are actually allowed to physically apprehend anyone caught shoplifting.
We already have this in the UK. I think it is a good idea but most store have security men that are not even a deterrent
Nest of brazen thieves is hidden right in the heart of the City. The next target of those brazen thugs is to chase those grocery stores out of town just because they believe they can, like what they did to those big names retailers in downtown San Francisco in the past few months.
One of our local Safeway stores had added some methods..one is you can't leave without going through a checkout... problem is, one Safeway is located close to a high school and every lunch and end of school day the store is mobbed by teens filling their pockets and laughing. I asked about one manager whether they had a certain item and he couldn't tell me because they have trouble keeping an inventory due to the amount of theft. BELIEVE IT!
she said, this cart is going to my cart pole and all! lol
It’s an embarrassment that this is even required
could you imagine if a person saw them putting stuff in there pockets and did what my dad would have done. Take off your belt, come up behind them and just start whipping there asses. until they take the items out of there pockets and drop them and then push them out of the store. that would be embarassing to me.
Dangerous for them to block exits when an emergency happens and nobody can get out? Not very smart
Logic not allowed sir.
I'm sure there's an emergency override. Building codes are very strict, and do not allow for entry ways to actually be blocked. All locked doors leading to the outside MUST allow quick opening from the inside, in case if an emergency. That's the law. So these doors I'm sure have some override mechanism, even if the store doesn't talk about it (not wanting to encore theft by telling crooks the door can be overriden).
Why don’t law makers just change the law to punish those thefts
Catch them & lock them up 🔐
But dat racisst!
HALLELUJAH!🎇
THANKS THIRD ST BAPTIST PASTOR FOR YOUR LETTER TO THE PAPER. THANK YOU TO THE D.A.
0:53 Mans low key admitted to believing in "No Snitch Zone" 😂😂😂😂
I had to ask an employee to open locked cabinet for Ivory soap. Unreal
All they have to do is buy something cheap to open the exit gate. All while they steal the rest
We might as well just go back to the old retail model where everything is behind a counter and the clerk retrieves it for you. The public obviously can no longer be trusted.
sigh... another thing customers have to do without getting paid to do...
Saw this setup in some grocery stores in France last year in the self checkout area.
Safeway promised to pay 20 yuan per hour, but it turned out to be 15.99 per hour, and after two months, it was changed to 20 yuan, and other arrears were said to be paid, but six months later, it was not paid, and the store manager also said that many people did not pay, I reported to the Labor Bureau, and it was soon paid. But there are a lot of people who do it for a short time and then quit
Safeway in Fairfield on Waterman Blvd has the same store set up.
What happens when there is a fire or a mass shooter? Who's gonna wait for employee to let ppl out?
My heart was racing @2:14
That pole could of knocked that kid out. Poor kid would’ve seen that coming.
What about emt's needing to get out? Looks like it would be a struggle for room? Or when the "big one" or any disaster strikes?👎
I think it would be best if the exit and entry had a metal door/bars that go up to at least 6ft so no one can jump over it or kick through it. Also there needs to be stiff consequences for criminals in order to deter crime.
good luck when there's an active shooter or fire that breaks out any everyone inside dies because they can't get out.
Dose costco have this problem, just saying i don’t mind paying a enter fee
So now they can park near the side and rear emergency exits and open those doors. I will not be surprised if they get hit with fire safety code violations because of those gates, you must have a quick egress in case of fire and evacuations.
That just keeps honest people honest.
As expected..heads up for persons in authorities for 4yrs now onward😢
I've boycotted Safeway for 3 years now. I couldn't be happier & I employ others to join me in my boycotting Safeway
2:11 but her cart literally walked out with a pole on as he was reporting on it 😂😂
Yeah I noticed that too. What a joke. Thiefs see it too. I like the door trap idea. Must have bulletproof glass tho and no hostages.
Maybe Chesa Boudin and Pamela Price could give the public insight into the reason stores around the Bay Area are closing!!
Remember do not ever go down isle 3. Where did all the peanut butter go?
They just go out the emergency exits like ...what?
There is no prosecution for theft in California. This is an actual law. This is the stupidest thing I’ve seen.
Its easier to let the theft go unnoticed because of lack of manpower, $100,000 a year to house and feed prisoner, not enough prisons or jails. It is what it is and you like it or try and find somewhere else to live because it probably wont get better.
How about this ...start arresting, start prosecuting to the fullest extent each and every damn one of them....how about doing that...
These days it's not desperate people stealing, its entitled people not wanting to pay for anything 😮
How does this prevent anyone from scanning 1 item and leaving with a cart full by scanning the receipt?
The barcode on the receipt probably is a high data density code like qr code, and encodes data for all purchased items. The scanner probably has multiple checks, including comparing that qr code to rthe database of recent purchases made at checkstands, and likely also integrated security camera AI powered image analysis, to visually verify the contents of the cart automatically. If the security camera sees (via its ai algorithm) too many items in the cart, compared to the receipt just scanned, it won't open the gate.
I used to love getting lunch at safeway because of how quick and easy i could get food and still have enough time to eat, looks like I can't do that as easily anymore. :(
THIS dude down the block from where i live is ALWAYS stealing from stores. When they do catch him, he's just in jail for 24hrs and is released again. THis is why it's never gonna stop!!!
What ever happened to just doing the right thing? The 10 commandments says thou shall not steal.
If you see someone steal food, you didn't see anything.
This is so creepy and dystopian wtf
Lol, maybe this makes things a little more difficult. However, people can still steal by not correctly accounting for all items or just evade paying altogether by jumping over the security gates or destroying them. The legal system has to enforce accountability, but prosecutors don’t have time for these petty crimes.
Doesnt matter what they do, if the police wont arrest or prosecute nothing will deter them