CVS in DC now has to resort to photos of items for sale on shelves

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop voting for Democrats and soft on crime policies!!!!!!!

This will continue if people are not punished and prosecuted!

Get ready for all stores to close and you can complain all you want about not finding a place to fill your prescriptions…


You deserve this DC and MD voters.

+1

CVS can hire private security trays the Republican way not govt support … bootstraps people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:im amazed at the number of posters here who apparently think it's no big deal that teenagers are looting stores. where are these kids' parents?

How would all the unlicensed vendors sell their goods without these teenagers supplying them? Maybe you should consider the impact on this disadvantaged group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I swear CVS corporate is doing this crap just to garner clicks and gin up the outrage politics.

This looks so staged and fake.

take off the tin foil hat. it's not like owning a pharmacy is some lucrative business. these stores have really thin margins. if people start stealing all their shit, they're going to close. why do you think there's so few grocery stores in ward 8? these businesses are not charities.

LOL CVS pharmacies literally mint money. The retail part of the store is a loss leader to get you into the store to fill your prescriptions at the pharmacy. CVS makes all its money at the pharmacy window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I swear CVS corporate is doing this crap just to garner clicks and gin up the outrage politics.

This looks so staged and fake.

take off the tin foil hat. it's not like owning a pharmacy is some lucrative business. these stores have really thin margins. if people start stealing all their shit, they're going to close. why do you think there's so few grocery stores in ward 8? these businesses are not charities.

LOL CVS pharmacies literally mint money. The retail part of the store is a loss leader to get you into the store to fill your prescriptions at the pharmacy. CVS makes all its money at the pharmacy window.

That's obviously not true. If CVS was making a lot of money, its stock price would go up. That's what happens when companies make lots of money. But CVS's stock price is lower today than it was 10 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:im amazed at the number of posters here who apparently think it's no big deal that teenagers are looting stores. where are these kids' parents?

Stop demonizing teenagers. I’ve posted this before, but Tenley Target employees told me that big theft rings are responsible for stealing bottles of detergent to sell on the black market, not bored teenagers. Do you really think teens are stealing paper towels?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cannot make this stuff up:

https://wtop.com/dc/2023/10/northeast-cvs-only-has-photos-of-paper-products-on-shelves-due-to-theft/


But let me guess, who cares about billion dollar corporations, it barely affects their revenues, it is insured, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope voters in the city love all of the inconvenience and retail deserts they voted for.

5 pages in and no one called out OP yet for leaving out the important part of this story? The items in question are paper products (toilet paper & facial tissue) that homeless people keep stealing. Hardly an indication of the downfall of social values. (Unless you consider the plight of people needing to steal TP.)

DCUM took OP’s clickbait title and ran with it, as usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot make this stuff up:

https://wtop.com/dc/2023/10/northeast-cvs-only-has-photos-of-paper-products-on-shelves-due-to-theft/


But let me guess, who cares about billion dollar corporations, it barely affects their revenues, it is insured, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope voters in the city love all of the inconvenience and retail deserts they voted for.

5 pages in and no one called out OP yet for leaving out the important part of this story? The items in question are paper products (toilet paper & facial tissue) that homeless people keep stealing. Hardly an indication of the downfall of social values. (Unless you consider the plight of people needing to steal TP.)

DCUM took OP’s clickbait title and ran with it, as usual.

Yawn…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:im amazed at the number of posters here who apparently think it's no big deal that teenagers are looting stores. where are these kids' parents?

Stop demonizing teenagers. I’ve posted this before, but Tenley Target employees told me that big theft rings are responsible for stealing bottles of detergent to sell on the black market, not bored teenagers. Do you really think teens are stealing paper towels?

Well, there's videos of teenagers ransacking stores. So, there's that. No one is demonizing them. They're already demons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot make this stuff up:

https://wtop.com/dc/2023/10/northeast-cvs-only-has-photos-of-paper-products-on-shelves-due-to-theft/


But let me guess, who cares about billion dollar corporations, it barely affects their revenues, it is insured, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope voters in the city love all of the inconvenience and retail deserts they voted for.

5 pages in and no one called out OP yet for leaving out the important part of this story? The items in question are paper products (toilet paper & facial tissue) that homeless people keep stealing. Hardly an indication of the downfall of social values. (Unless you consider the plight of people needing to steal TP.)

DCUM took OP’s clickbait title and ran with it, as usual.

no one is stealing because they need it. they are cleaning out entire aisles. jeebus. i can't believe the excuses people make for this. bad parents, bad kids, i guess.

[Anonymous]

The obsession so many on this board have with denying crime and excusing criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:im amazed at the number of posters here who apparently think it's no big deal that teenagers are looting stores. where are these kids' parents?

Stop demonizing teenagers. I’ve posted this before, but Tenley Target employees told me that big theft rings are responsible for stealing bottles of detergent to sell on the black market, not bored teenagers. Do you really think teens are stealing paper towels?

Who did drug rings employ to peddle drugs on the street back when they were criminalized? I wonder who big theft rings employ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cannot make this stuff up:

https://wtop.com/dc/2023/10/northeast-cvs-only-has-photos-of-paper-products-on-shelves-due-to-theft/


But let me guess, who cares about billion dollar corporations, it barely affects their revenues, it is insured, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope voters in the city love all of the inconvenience and retail deserts they voted for.

I saw a picture of a frame. It was unframed, which I thought was clever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot make this stuff up:

https://wtop.com/dc/2023/10/northeast-cvs-only-has-photos-of-paper-products-on-shelves-due-to-theft/


But let me guess, who cares about billion dollar corporations, it barely affects their revenues, it is insured, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope voters in the city love all of the inconvenience and retail deserts they voted for.

5 pages in and no one called out OP yet for leaving out the important part of this story? The items in question are paper products (toilet paper & facial tissue) that homeless people keep stealing. Hardly an indication of the downfall of social values. (Unless you consider the plight of people needing to steal TP.)

DCUM took OP’s clickbait title and ran with it, as usual.

Grow up. Your denial does more harm than good. You are a big part of DC’s problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You cannot make this stuff up:

https://wtop.com/dc/2023/10/northeast-cvs-only-has-photos-of-paper-products-on-shelves-due-to-theft/


But let me guess, who cares about billion dollar corporations, it barely affects their revenues, it is insured, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope voters in the city love all of the inconvenience and retail deserts they voted for.

5 pages in and no one called out OP yet for leaving out the important part of this story? The items in question are paper products (toilet paper & facial tissue) that homeless people keep stealing. Hardly an indication of the downfall of social values. (Unless you consider the plight of people needing to steal TP.)

DCUM took OP’s clickbait title and ran with it, as usual.

Grow up. Your denial does more harm than good. You are a big part of DC’s problem.

Some people have never been taught that stealing is wrong. They try to justify theft and crime at every turn. There are many families who live in poverty but still teach their children right from wrong.

[Anonymous]

I worked in a record store in the 1980s, and we kept our cassettes behind plexiglass. It's just what you do in a high-crime area (and we even had a security guard in the store at all times).