UES workers feel powerless over shoplifting surge exposed by Rapaport videoBy Hannah Ferrera, Khristina Narizhnaya and Amanda Woods
January 26, 2022
Workers at Upper East Side drug and grocery stores said Wednesday that brazen shoplifters target their stores every day – and they are powerless to stop it.
The employees spoke to the Post a day after actor and comedian Michael Rapaport filmed an alleged crook casually strolling out of a Rite Aid at 80th Street and Second Avenue with his loot.
“It happens everywhere around here,” said Herman Diaz, an assistant manager at the nearby Morton Williams supermarket on First Avenue and East 81st Street. “They come here, 2 or 3 [shoplifting incidents per day] for meat and beer and Red Bull.”
“[On] Sunday, six kids, 17-25 years old, each got a basket, [filled it] with meat, beer, everything, didn’t pay, they walked out, got into a car, a BMW. Young kids.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/26/nyc-workers-feel-powerless-over-shoplifting-surge-exposed-by-rapaport-video/
