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A San Francisco professor<\/a> lamented that items are being locked up in grocery stores, warning that it makes Americans feel like prisoners.<\/p>\n

Major cities in America have been host to a spree of “serial shoplifters,” who make a regular habit of bursting into stores, stealing as much as they can, and leaving. Now, a growing list of items such as shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, and razor blades have to be locked up order to prevent theft. In San Francisco, one video showed the glass doors of the frozen food section in a Walgreens chained shut<\/a> after workers complained that the store gets robbed nearly 20 times a day.<\/p>\n

University of California, San Francisco sociology professor Stacy Torres, however, wrote an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times downplaying the phenomenon, headlined, “Grocery stores used to be my happy place. Then they started locking up the detergent.”<\/p>\n

“Locked glass cabinets safeguarding merchandise are now ubiquitous in chains like Target, Walmart and Walgreens<\/a>,” the academic wrote. “Asking clerks to retrieve detergent and baby formula is demoralizing enough, but businesses are implementing more severe security measures that erode customers\u2019 spirits and our social fabric, even though it\u2019s unclear whether shoplifting has become the national crisis that some retailers claim.”<\/p>\n

NEWS CREW IN SAN FRANCISCO WATCHES LIVE AS MAN BRAZENLY STEALS FROM A WALGREENS: \u2018DID THAT GUY PAY?\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Torres linked to a CNN article from early 2023 headlined, “Stores say shoplifting is a national crisis. The numbers don\u2019t back it up.”<\/p>\n

CNN highlighted a UC Berkeley academic’s claim that it is “easier for companies and the public to blame theft for store closures and retail struggles than admit stores\u2019 over-expansion, strategy mistakes and customers abandoning stores for online shopping.”<\/p>\n

Torres went on to argue that a grocery run “shouldn\u2019t feel like visiting a prison, but that\u2019s the vibe shoppers get from extreme anti-theft measures at a Safeway<\/a> in Oakland\u2019s Rockridge neighborhood” and “customers pay a psychological cost.”<\/p>\n

She said grocery stores should not “strip our dignity” by increasing security, and claimed that rather than providing a feeling of safety, stores “risk molding us into more anxious, suspicious people” as shoppers face “disproportionate dehumanization.”<\/p>\n

After arguing it is “unclear if beefed-up security measures are actually helping to solve these problems,” the California academic offered some solutions for “organized retail theft and smaller-scale shoplifting,” many of which appeared to be a checklist of left-wing initiatives.<\/p>\n

RAMPANT RETAIL THEFT MAKING INFLATION WORSE, THREATENS BLEEDING BUSINESSES, ECONOMISTS SAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“[W]ithout addressing socioeconomic conditions such as inflation, poverty and opportunity deficits, the help [beefed-up security measures] do provide serves merely as a Band-Aid,” she argued. “Short- and long-term investments in our social safety net, including restoring SNAP benefits slashed for millions in March, and ensuring access to high-quality education, job training and a living wage, will alleviate economic desperation.”<\/p>\n

For more Culture, Media, Education, Opinion, and channel coverage, visit\u00a0<\/strong><\/i>foxnews.com\/media<\/strong><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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