Organized crime groups are behind grocery store theft across Canada
The Retail Council of Canada is calling grocery store theft a national crisis, with losses now approaching $10 billion annually across the grocery sector and it’s only growing.
Honestly it sounds more like a crisis for the retail council of Canada rather than a national crisis.
“Eastern European organized crime has certainly been involved, and this isn’t just a big city problem, it’s happening straight across the country,” says CTV News crime specialist, Mark Mendelson.
It’s Canada so of course they’re going to be racist about it as well.
Watch out, Canadians. Eastern Europeans are causing a national crisis by taking advantage of our assault on labor.
“People are running away, going to a car right away and giving that product to whoever’s in the car, in exchange for something. Its either drugs or money,” according to Ottawa Police Chief, Eric Stubbs
Eastern European drug addicts.
This month, Guelph police arrested a man who they claim swapped out expensive products for cheaper ones at self-checkouts. Police claim that the individual in question, would scan items that cost less than one dollar, in exchange for baby formula priced at $97 dollars each.
BABY FORMULA COSTS $97 FUCKING DOLLARS????
They’re right, this is a national crisis.
Just last August, in Windsor, Ont. more than $220,000 worth of beef was stolen from a parked tractor trailer. The large-scale heist is another example of lucrative grocery crimes on the rise.
There are differing opinions on where items like black market beef are ending up. Mendelson and others who spoke to CTV News believe that some restaurants struggling to turn a profit are likely purchasing stolen goods. In some cases, smaller grocery stores and restaurants might not even realize they’re purchasing stolen food for their establishments.
Yeah sure they don’t realize this. They’re honest businessmen, buying misc meat off the back of a trailer in an alley. They wouldn’t be the “organized” part of this crime. Actually, they’re victims.
As someone who works retail in these stores. It's overblown bullshit. They're still making record profits. This is a puff piece to try and get some sympathy for retail owners who are currently one of the most reviled entity in Canada.
They pushed self checkouts hard, cut hours for everything, and then they're shocked when thieves take advantage of that?
My store went from having two entrances that were mostly unguarded, to a fucking "1984" built perimeter fence with wheel locking shopping carts if you don't take the cart through a till properly. We are expected to spider wrap Lego sets and appliances and half of cosmetics and baby. They spend probably over hundreds of thousands of dollar to install security theatre bullshit instead of simply just having staff on the floor working who would mitigate most theft by having a presence there.
And I repeat, grocery stores continue to make excellent profit despite numbers that reveal people are buying noticeably less stuff (because they increased prices so damn much).
They are probably hoping to replace the remaining staff with cops the public pays for.
This right here. Because a jobless or underpaid population is a compliant, willing to work longer, harder hours for less.
The grocery store closest to me has one way doors to the exit that faves the street now, an alarm goes off if you even go near them, and they lock em entirely after 7pm so you have to go around the side of the building to the back parking lot. It's where the loading dock is and if there is a truck there it blocks the sidewalk and there is enough space for one car to get through at a time, so a great place to get run over. Throw in the bad curbs thst someone in a wheelchair would just have to drop off of to get off the sidewalk, the potholes and just the general awkwardness of it, im surprised its even allowed cause its hella unfriendly to people with disabilities. Like the residents of the old folks home next door
Another Walgreens manufactured crisis to justify spending on security, survailence, and terrorism?