• Like drug stores locking up toothpaste, your local grocery store might have to start locking up meats and vegetables due to rampant shoplifting.
• “People have no fear of coming to your store and stealing,” Nelson Eusebio of the National Supermarket Association.
• He also warns that shoplifters are becoming more violent.
• “Our employees are terrified,” Eusebio says.  “We have young people that come to work, young cashiers who work part-time, these kids are 16-17 years old.  They’re traumatized.”

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