NYC grocers want to stick a fork in serial supermarket shopliftersBy Carl Campanile, Lisa Fickenscher, Bernadette Hogan and Bruce Golding
January 9, 2023
The Big Apple’s food merchants are fed up with the way serial shoplifters treat their stores as a free-for-all buffet.
Getting busted on petty larceny charges no longer serves as a deterrent to stealing from supermarkets, fumed Dominick Albergo, who’s in charge of security for the Gristedes grocery chain.
“We had one shoplifter arrested three times in one day and he kept returning to the store. They were all desk appearance tickets,” said Albergo, an ex-NYPD cop.
Gristedes owner John Catsimatidis — who last year offered a $10,000 reward after one of his stores was robbed at gunpoint — also said there was “a difference between professional thieves who are ruining the city and someone stealing a loaf of bread because he’s hungry.”
“Bail reform for someone stealing a loaf of bread? Yes. For professional thieves? No!” he said.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/nyc-grocers-want-to-stick-a-fork-in-serial-supermarket-shoplifters/
