Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 17:37     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:This thread’s going to get deleted, sort of like how Reddit “Washington DC” deletes any crime related posts because it’s simply too hard to discuss, but really I’m sick of crime apologists.

Yeah, we get “income inequality” is to blame, but at the same time, we throw millions at it, and leniency, or studies, or is not an immediate solution to the massive spike. We need to vote for strict on crime politicians and people who have the will to let police arrest and courts prosecute. If not, the crime will keep rising.


Disagree that income inequality is to blame. As a PP said these are not poor little shoplifters stealing a loaf of bread. These are organized crime gangs.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 17:37     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Name brand items are locked up behind a gate at Home Depot Rhode island avenue. I was stunned.
i used to spend a lot of time in Columbia heights and a cvs there basically had everything name brand under lock and key and this was several years ago


The target in Cleveland Park has been locking stuff up for at least 2 years.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 17:36     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they start looting grocery stores in takoma park, Chevy chase, palisades, etc areas next and those residents are affected.


They do. The CVS on Sangamore, the CVS on Mass Ave and the Harris Teeter in downtown Bethesda have all been hit. I’ve ordered toiletries online at Harris Teeter and was told by the shopper that they got hit so they were out of most of what I wanted.
during the Freddy’s gray rioting people looted pharmacies stealing opiates and there was an upsurge in overdoses in baltimore


This is people grabbing beauty products to resell. And it’s been happening all summer. In addition to what the PP listed there were also Targets and Ulta beauty stores hit.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 17:29     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:Name brand items are locked up behind a gate at Home Depot Rhode island avenue. I was stunned.
i used to spend a lot of time in Columbia heights and a cvs there basically had everything name brand under lock and key and this was several years ago
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 17:28     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they start looting grocery stores in takoma park, Chevy chase, palisades, etc areas next and those residents are affected.


They do. The CVS on Sangamore, the CVS on Mass Ave and the Harris Teeter in downtown Bethesda have all been hit. I’ve ordered toiletries online at Harris Teeter and was told by the shopper that they got hit so they were out of most of what I wanted.
during the Freddy’s gray rioting people looted pharmacies stealing opiates and there was an upsurge in overdoses in baltimore
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 16:45     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How come Wholefoods, Trader Joe's and Safeway can manage SE DC but Giant can't?


Republicans


Yes, the purported rise is crime is just a republican/Fox News conspiracy for scare people into voting conservative, right?

In no way, is there an issue. https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Even with massive year over year crime spikes, we need to be more lenient with arrests, prosecutions and sentencing. It’s all going so well. Progressive criminal justice reform, while painful to so many, will ultimately work if we keep on trying.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 16:07     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they start looting grocery stores in takoma park, Chevy chase, palisades, etc areas next and those residents are affected.


They do. The CVS on Sangamore, the CVS on Mass Ave and the Harris Teeter in downtown Bethesda have all been hit. I’ve ordered toiletries online at Harris Teeter and was told by the shopper that they got hit so they were out of most of what I wanted.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 16:05     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Name brand items are locked up behind a gate at Home Depot Rhode island avenue. I was stunned.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 15:54     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Giant should just outright close the store.
Post a sign that says "that's why you cannot have nice things".


Yeah, creating a food desert for the vast majority of residents who are just trying to live there because of several individuals who are running product scam operations would just be hilarious... Are you insane?

F em


Just open food panties and give poor people the basics. No Cheetos. No Pepsi. Just fruit and veggies and pasta.


They aren't stealing those items. They are stealing items with a resale value to support their drug habit.


+1

I never understood people that could actually afford a car, who didn't want to actually get a job. I have been without both before, and if you have to walk to a job in all kinds of weather, you do it. You act like you have parents, you don't knock over drug stores. What kind of lawlessness is this, and how much are you willing to tolerate, because this is ridiculous. DC is a laughing stock of the nation.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 15:50     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
I don't get people who are against legal consequences but won't teach children to respect laws of the land and ethical rules.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 15:50     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:How come Wholefoods, Trader Joe's and Safeway can manage SE DC but Giant can't?


THere's no Trader Joe's or WF EOTR, but keep trying to blame the victim.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 15:47     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:How come Wholefoods, Trader Joe's and Safeway can manage SE DC but Giant can't?


Republicans
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 15:46     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
How come Wholefoods, Trader Joe's and Safeway can manage SE DC but Giant can't?
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 15:42     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they start looting grocery stores in takoma park, Chevy chase, palisades, etc areas next and those residents are affected.


Oh no, *those* residents matter. They can get the attention of their local police to set up and do something. Actually, this already happened, when the CVS's in Chevy Chase and Palisades were being hit and the residents flipped out until the cops posted cars at each one. Wonder why that doesn't happen in SE?


Those neighborhoods are already over policed.


As someone who lives in one of those neighborhoods, I'm perfectly fine with the level of policing we have. Of course, neither I nor my family are criminals.


“Over policed” give me a break.
Anonymous
Post 09/04/2023 13:17     Subject: SE DC Giant food to stop selling my name brand items
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread’s going to get deleted, sort of like how Reddit “Washington DC” deletes any crime related posts because it’s simply too hard to discuss, but really I’m sick of crime apologists.

Yeah, we get “income inequality” is to blame, but at the same time, we throw millions at it, and leniency, or studies, or is not an immediate solution to the massive spike. We need to vote for strict on crime politicians and people who have the will to let police arrest and courts prosecute. If not, the crime will keep rising.


I mean, you fundamentally understand that strict on crime policing got us into this mess, right?


It did not. The entire crime narrative has been a false binary since George Floyd's murder. It's a much more complex issue. The recent response to overly burdensome criminal sentencing, etc. is to make it so lax that there are few consequences. The appropriate response would be immediate, known, reasonable consequences to criminal activity. That's the only way to build in a deterrent.

And there has to be a deterrent. Most crime is opportunistic. Most lower income people don't commit crime, but we all love to think if we provide handouts, crime will go away. Provide handouts and services because it's the right thing to do. But never expect it to reduce crime.


SAY IT AGAIN.