The CEOs from 20 major retail brands, including Target TGT, CVS CVS and Walgreens WBA, have jointly penned a letter to Congress over concerns of increasing crime in their stores.
“As millions of Americans have undoubtedly seen on the news in recent weeks and months, retail establishments of all kinds have seen a significant uptick in organized crime in communities across the nation,” the letter reads.
“While we constantly invest in people, policies, and innovative technology to deter theft, criminals are capitalizing on the anonymity of the Internet and the failure of certain marketplaces to verify their sellers,” it continues. “This trend has made retail businesses a target for increasing theft, hurt legitimate businesses who are forced to compete against unscrupulous sellers, and has greatly increased consumer exposure to unsafe and dangerous counterfeit products.”
Organized crime? Instead of organized crime, do you perchance mean “Basketball-Americans be stealin our shit?” Because that would appear to be a more honest and accurate assessment of the situation.
Here’s a 3 hour livestream of these Looters of Colour.
The goal for the letter, which was addressed to the majority and minority leaders in both the House and the Senate, is to consider passing the Integrity, Notification and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces (INFORM) Consumers Act. The act aims to increase transparency for online retail marketplaces, slow the sale of counterfeit goods online, and increase verification protocols for buyers.
“Leading retailers are concerned about the growing impact organized retail crime is having on the communities we proudly serve, which is why we strongly support the bipartisan and bicameral Integrity, Notification and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces (INFORM) for Consumers Act,” the letter continues. “This important legislation will modernize our consumer protection laws to safeguard families and communities from the sale of illicit products and we urge its quick passage.”
I do love these people pretending that these black flash mob looters are organized crime and using some sophisticated thievery. How could anyone possibly stop this high tech 21st century cyber-thievery?
NYPost:
In 2014, a statewide law (Proposition 47) reclassified nonviolent thefts as misdemeanors for stolen goods worth less than $950. California’s property crime immediately spiked from below the national average to above it and has continued to grow. And San Francisco, as of 2019, had twice the property-crime rate per resident — 1 in 18 — as the rest of California; not to mention that San Francisco’s rate of violent crime per resident is 50 percent above California’s.
In January 2020, San Francisco’s new “progressive” district attorney, Chesa Boudin (a son of convicted cop killers), made decreasing penalties for nonviolent offenses a cornerstone of his agenda. He also crusaded to ban cash bail, reduce prison populations and pursue non-incarceration.
That year, while burglaries were down nationwide, they rose in San Francisco by 50 percent; motor-vehicle theft, up around 4 percent nationwide, shot up in San Francisco by 22 percent. As the petition for one of the two recall efforts against Boudin stated: “In 2020, violent crime, home invasions, rampant and unchecked drug dealing and business-property theft have turned our city upside down.”
Everyone goes toward greatest opportunity and least risk. Thieves flock to San Francisco, unconcerned by what amounts to the vague threat of a citation should they be detained — which is unlikely, as police make arrests in less than 3 percent of reported thefts, and these cases rarely get prosecuted.
Cops in a Walgreens just watch a black looter, on a bike no less, pack his bags with shit.
Oh, I suppose you could just get police to arrest shoplifters, give them deterring punishment, and then that would be it. But the anti-White ideology pushed by our (((privileged class))) simply does not allow for that. So instead, in order to get the deterrence they want, they have to resort to letting them steal whatever they want, and then engage in anti-mob style surveillance to catch them when fencing these goods.
And 69.4% of retailers say they have experienced a rise in retail-related crimes over the past year, according to data from the 2021 Retail Security Survey. The surveyed companies cited issues surrounding COVID-19, policing, changes to sentencing and the huge growth of online marketplaces.
Keep in mind, this is still with Retail sales being depressed due to Covid-19 bullshit, which is especially hard in these NPC areas like San Fran. Below we have the list of CEOs who signed the letter.
Ken Hicks, Academy Sports + Outdoors
Lauren Hobart, DICK’S Sporting Goods Inc. DKS
Richard Johnson, Foot Locker Inc. FL
Rodney McMullen, The Kroger Co. KR
Richard Keyes, Meijer Inc.
Erik Nordstrom, Nordstrom Inc. JWN
Heyward Donigan, Rite Aid Corporation RAD
Brian C. Cornell, Target Corporation
Steve Rendle, VF Corporation VFC
William Rhodes, AutoZone, Inc. AZO
Neela Montgomery, CVS Health
Todd J. Vasos, Dollar General Corporation DG
Craig Menear, The Home Depot Inc. HD
Chip Bergh, Levi Strauss & Co. LEVI
Geoffroy van Raemdonck, Neiman Marcus, Inc.
Ron Coughlin, Petco Animal Supplies Inc. WOOF
Anthony T. Hucker, Southeastern Grocers
David Kimbell, Ulta Beauty Inc. ULTA
John Standley, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
Corie Barry, Best Buy Co. Inc. BBY
Brian Dodge, Retail Industry Leaders Association
John Standley, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
Brian Dodge, Retail Industry Leaders Association
There may of course be a sort of intra-privileged class fight, where online retailers like Amazon are making massive profits off their retail competitors being destroyed in this way.
