NYC bodega owners fed up with shoplifters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2023
- Bodega owners across the city say they need locks and chains to keep thieves from stealing their livelihoods.
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The sad part is the profit margins are so small for these owners, so when thieves are stealing they are basically pushing the owners to close their business.
Almost makes you wonder if owning a business is even worth it. Seems like 80 percent of businesses are 1 disaster away from going out of business. For example, I know they always say they can't afford to pay employees a higher minimum wage. That means a lot of businesses are financially unstable. The bigger companies are mainly just greedy and don't want to take on more expenses. But many small businesses seem like they're 2 seconds away from closing.
Not true, lmao. I have family friends that own convenience stores in the hood. They made so much money that they could afford to buy an entire plaza and a mansion for their family. There's a reason why they do business in the hood. It pays well and has relatively cheap entry cost due to high crime.
That said, that doesn't justify stealing.
@@aa-hf2bj no that is NOT true. I live in Chicago, and large retailers like Aldi and Whole Foods Market have opened stores in high-crime neighborhoods (like Englewood) only to later close those stores after a couple of years (we know why).
If shrinkage affects a large retailer like Whole Foods (which is owned by Amazon) then you know what it does to an immigrant from India or Honduras surviving off a secured loan.
@@aa-hf2bj i swear to god they wouldn't continue in the hood even if they were offered gold for exchange. people now wants peace of mind !!!
Yesterday I was in Walgreens waiting for someone to unlock the body wash cabinet. I was becoming annoyed I was having to wait after a few minutes, but then I realized why nobody was coming to unlock the cabinet. Because the employees were busy worrying about a group of "juveniles" that were in there stealing at the same time I'm waiting. Of course I don't blame the store. The only other option is the store closes and then I have to go further away
thats when you raise your voice and do something about it!!! if everyone would stand up to these bum ass thiefs and they knew it wouldnt be as easy as walking out!!! clearly it is affecting you cus like you said its inconvenience you. on top of waiting for some one to unlock the cabinets you are paying higher prices so make it make sense how this doesnt affect yall. scary clowns if i see this shit im pepper spraying and or sh00ting if i have my gun. then I just walk out on my merry way cus police will have to find you just like how they never find these bum ass thiefs
The innocent people have to pay the price which isn't fair.
You know why because no one speaks up. No one stands up.
It’s also our fault
@@yoj5844 you right, not enough of us stand up or stick together. Some of us is selfish only worrying about one's self.
@@cinnamonspice4389 You can't get people to stick together - I know, I tried.
We don't have to we can go online.
Life is not fair
How can 13% cause so much destruction? Lol 😂
This is just the warm-up phase because the Party Hasn't Even Started Yet.
Shoplifting us contagious. When people see others getting away with it they think about it also. Why not when nothing's gonna happen.
What’s crazy is that you’ll have people who will complain about this and say they are being racially targeted and oppressed but be the same ones who be stealing. Only those who complain are the ones stealing.
Summer almost here lol o wait tax season is here
@@DjBolt11 U must be talking about them whites and migrants ........o wait whites still hella money .....targeted u must just came to America.....
@@yada9451 lol yea someone saying “still” instead of Steal! 🥴🥴 lol
So proud of these bodega owners standing up ✅
Chinese don't let you into their store, if you look like a bum.
Time to give harsher penalties to shoplifters. The bigger the sentence the less they will steal.
I'll bet many of their customers are local residents so maybe those recognizable folks in good standing could call in their orders much like curbside pick up to lesson the inconvenience on both sides.
@@marcushennings9513 Probably so.
The justice system has gone soft on crime. And if you try to defend yourself, then you become the suspect.
Harsh penalties won't work. The only deterrents to crime are high probabilities of being caught and/or the potential victim fighting back. These people know most people are unarmed and won't fight back and law enforcement isn't in the vicinity. 25 years in prison as a punishment for robbing someone sounds good, but you'd have to catch the person first.
NYC politicians are soft on crime
1:52 "im a business owner as well.... but you don't have to do all of that" does your store get robbed? This lady clearly doesn't understand and is instead pissed that it inconveniences her to buy things now. She sounds upset at the owner for the hassle... wow... people like this contribute to the problem. I wonder who she will be pissed off at next when the store closes down because profits are lost and rent cant be paid. no more corner store in the neighborhood.
She's living in La-La-Land! 🤡
she is a problem. gtfo
Shes no business owner. She probably sells Avon
Her kind is the one that steals
One if not all of her 4 brothers were probably involved in some of the robberies
Things were so much better when Gulliani was around. Sad but true.
Agree but they will call it racism
Lol
They demonize ppl like him now. Like Trump.
@@yoj5844 I don't know why most of the stealing I see is white people always has been always will be
😂
1:12 So the criminals are armed and the citizens are unarmed? Got it.
That's the way liberals like it for some strange reason.
😂
Yup that's how that works
Well, where I’m from, (Shall Issue, Constitutional Carry), we don’t have this problem. Shoplifting? Sure. Stick a few items under your jacket and sneak out. But large scale smash & grabs? No. And pull a GUN on a clerk? That will get you shot. If not by the store owner or clerk (big box stores prohibit carry by employees anyway), but by a citizen lawfully carrying. Does EVERYONE carry a weapon? No, of course not. But like Remo Gaggi says “why take the chance?”
i feel bad for these people. they work like dogs with small profit margins and they get ripped off.
Your idiom is a bit outdated - the dogs of the thieves dont even work. They growl if you dare pass by even if your own food and groceries, or your kid - a meal to them. We cannot even visit the bodega in peace and the store owners get harmed because of this too.
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@@ytr3488 I'm someone who logs injuries on wildlife, often endangered wildlife, performed by dogs and dog owners that shouldn't even be in the area or making contact with wild animals with a dog. The few times I am able to catch the culprit, I do. I will continue to do this and save as many from being dog attack victims as I can as long as people like you who want to suppress speech about it and attack people who dare to not worship dogs roam the earth.
I approved this. If y'all don't like it, snitch on the criminals for fcking up your stores that provide YOUR neighborhood the necessities YOU need and the fast service (luxury) you no longer have OR deal with this new solution.
People are and should be sick of lawlessness.
Bodega owners are geniuses. Next best thing to buying online.
That's exactly what the world economic forum wants. Digital money.
I live in Florida and NYC. I love both places. However, I find it crazy how stores lock up everything. Stealing can not be tolerated. We can change the conditions of the poor without endangering our livelihoods.
Otherwise, everything will be an amazon order.
Everyone is poor but not everyone is stealing
If they're locking everything up that means that a person who works for the store has to unlock it in order to provide it to the customer therefore there's no need in them putting it on the floor in such a way they can put it behind the counter just like they have this cigarettes behind the counter.
That's exactly why the mayor and city hall don't enforce laws unless it's someone defacing a BLM mural, which isn't a law. Amazon makes the money, donates to the Left, bodega owners get screwed.
it's a lot of Hispanic customers who don't want to pay.
@@danger26102 what a useless comment
Very very simple solution bird from the liquor stores, essentially gut out about 300 sq ft of floor space from the entrance, plexiglass up the whole interior. Ask people what they want, get payment then provide merchandise.
Great idea
1 inch plexiglass or Lexan
She states "They don't have to do all of this". Of course they have to do all of that to preserve their livelihood and continue support to their families.
Yup and those are intellectually challenged that are running this city
She wants to be political correct and doesn't want to offend the criminals
I was thinking the same shit. okay where is your business at so we can all come steal from you like tf.
@@bayodaman very well said! That ignorant women. If she was a business owner she would know how these ha4dworking Latin business owners feel the frustration 🧐😤😵💫
She must feel inconvenienced since the bodega owners are making it harder for her to steal.
Keep tiptoeing around the problem, and it will only get worse.
Things were so much better when Bloomberg ran New York!!!
The very first Grocery stores, the customer came to the counter, and handed over a list of items. The Owner or a staff person, would leave, go fill the list and come back with the basket or cart and then they would ring it up.
It wasn't until the 1920s that the customer 'shopped' for themselves. Maybe we should bring that back, but with only a small window in which to hand over the list, and no access to the products by the customers at all. Might be hellava lot safer for the bodega owners.
Great idea BUT GREED always wins because they can't make the Schmoney as fast this way, albeit I think it's a good idea.
So the clerk retrieves the stuff, then the cancer takes it from him. What's the difference? Maybe make them pay at the beginning? Alot of hoops bc we're too cowardly to properly deal w cancer.
Yes, Walmart was the first store ever to let customers take things off the shelf themselves.
Chains on the detergent 😬🤣
Better get used to it! Will only get worse.
Had a chance to address it on Election Day n they blew it
They sure blew it big time.
@slapshot68 B L M set this lawlessness epidemic into motion. And guess whose watch
B L M happened under?
They don't have to do all that? Listen to her. Hey honey enjoy what you voted for.
Sadly what will happen next is looters will BREAK the glass, steal smaller unlocked items and just start TEARING things down
Just watch, this comment will age nicely
Looters already aren't afraid of the law, so WHAT will stop them from SMASHING glass windows? And carrying out entire display cases etc
Its bad everywhere
It's a crying 😢 shame on what's going on in this country alone. I live in Brooklyn. I'm totally against the stealing. Times in general is rough.
That's too bad. Bodegas serve their communities.
@@marcpadilla1094 All their stuff is old and overpriced - they are good for lottery tickets.
@@paulsawczyc5019 well what do expect from a convenient store and all that theivery
@@colinchampollion4420 I hope that people are smart, and realize that's not a business to get into - do something else.
@@paulsawczyc5019 Old?
They should have given Zeldin a try, even Curtis, at least he would be trying
The owner of the store voted for Zeldin. He also endorsed Zeldin after the cashier of the store named Jose got arrested for defending the store from an armed robber
What kind of people would do such a thing?
I'm 100% it's the Japanese community, or maybe the Italians?
Crack heads..😁
Basketball 🏀
@@paaulistta absolutely the Koreans.
We can’t say because they will scream racism even though it’s true video doesn’t lie .
I live in NYC Brooklyn to be exact and I’m all for the locking the items up because this looting is getting out of control and it’s not fair
Awww, life isn't fair 🧁 is it?
They need to go back to everything behind the counter.
Imagine owning a store in the dirtiest most crime filled borough and wondering why people are robbing you. Okkkk
If people wasn't getting away with basically murder every single day in New York and actually receiving a real punishment this probably what happened a lot less
Rather than locking everything up they should put up, one of those 24 hour window. From my point of view is, if I walk into a store and things are locked up, am walking right back out. Customers could order there product from outside the store window. The store employee goes and grabs the product and customer pays for it than the employee hands it to them through the window. Customers don't have to step in the store period. They also could do that right in the front entrance door too. Rather than locking everything up, making all customers feel like they're thiefs.
That "business owner" said you "don't have to do all of that." She probably runs a shoplifting ring.
When stores lock things up sometimes I don’t have time to call an employee so I will go to a different store to buy the items. Thieves ruin it for all of us that’s why I have zero tolerance for them.
I'm not fooling around with locks. I'll order from Amazon if it's locked.
And when the package comes to your building if you live in a community with these bodegas being robbed, they're going to steal your package.
Don't complain when there are no stores in your neighborhood and you want to grab something on the run.
Degeneration of neighborhoods. Crime is causing mistrust, and fear of people in the community leading to business closures and the changing way of life. Communities are only as good as the people living in them.
Well, it's always been the same ppl living in these communities the difference is when radical government takes power and tells one group of ppl they are victims and are entitled to everything (including breaking the law and getting away with it). Having lived in NYC my entire life, I've witnessed this decline with my very eyes.
Thieves have to be punished severely enough to send a message to others. This shit has to end, and law abiding citizens should be calling this out more.
Yeah that'll never happen unless it's white supremacist
@@VVV953 what do you mean?
@@WanderingRationalist you tell me
@@VVV953 only white people are punished for their actions, and everyone else gets a pass?
Damn shit is tough out here.
I asked for a pack of winter fresh, and he had to get it out the safe.
These people are not thieves!
Prices are too high!
Economic discrimination!
The greedy against the needy
When I moved to America they didn’t have that. I once had this really old guy tell me that he loved on a farm and that they would leave fruit out and a jar for money and people never stole nothing. They all paid. What is this world coming 2
Why do we have all these problems?.... B-->lack Americans. Haven't you noticed?
The irony is chains we’re once used as “control” only to once again need chains to control
Only this time the chains is on laundry detergent instead of ya'll.
This is pure hell for people who want to buy things with things locked up. This crap has to stop!!!
They should adopt the latino store layout where the entire store is visible from outside with steel bars and the person outside let’s the store owner know what they want and the store owner brings it to the opening.
I live in South Florida and our Latino stores don’t look like that but we don’t have that problem either
@@CN45475 es que las leyes de NY son diferentes a las de FL.. aqui no esta el "stand your ground" y los negociantes hacen lo posible para evitar problemas y esa gente son imposibles de lidiar..
Smart Move
I don't mind asking politely for them to unlock it...... because I'm a patient and kind person
However BE AWARE many thugs will still ask for unlocking, then IMMEDIATELY ROB YOU so be ready
My man eddy lol East Tremont what up🙏🏿🙏🏿
And this is why we can't have nice things
Fuck them they be out here taxing the poor people. It be $10 for the smallest bottle of tide. $10 for a box of cereal. Some of the elderly can’t make it to and from Walmart the dollar store etc. They take advantage of the poor by labeling it “ a convenience store”
Exactly..
Make people order through you...either online or in person and have them pay for it and then collect it. It would take redesigning the layout of the store and basically have most of your space be storage with registers/pick up in the front.
Sooner or later that's what going to happen. Stores all around US will have to have customers order online and then pick up in the store and have employees pick up the items and lock everything up.
And we know which "folks" are helping themselves.
And this is how, online shopping and delivery booms ever more.
just let one person in at a time to shop
Where is the NYPD?
Mostly short staffed…overworked, the Bronx NYPD were crippled by the defund the police movement and lost officers to that as well as during Covid mandates. They were defunded and demoralized intentionally and docked millions in funding. Officers quit, they were let go. It was made plain by the city that police are not wanted, needed or undesirable. They shrunk the Bronx offices…Now due to soft on crime law changes criminals cannot be held unless they murder someone, drug use and selling is not criminalized, and armed robbery is fine unless you murder someone. Prostitution is not treated as a crime either. You might spend two nights in jail for armed robbery, and even if you have a order of protection a person they have to attack you for the police to worry about it. Of course it’s the height of irony that people who punished the police and defunded them are now wanting protection and there is rampant lawlessness…I’m sure the many police who held public protests find it ironic as well since they really tried to fight the city, now the subway had a 60% increase in crime…u can’t walk around after dark in the Bronx.
@@blueorangeblossom "equity"
new york city needs jackie chan LOL
Jackie who, oh that guy he is like 73 yrs old..😁
chop a hand to send a message.
I've seen difficult times in NYC, but even during the pandemic bodega owners didnt have to do this. At least in brooklyn around me. I can see why alot of people are fleeing NYC for more peaceful lives and better environments.
Not for long, DEI is coming to your communi-tah.
@@bigmountain1970 I guess DEI makes it permissable for folks to act like asshats????
When the laundry detergent bottles get “daisy chained” together thats when we know it has gone too far
... laundry detergent bottles chained up...
Actually I think I remember seeing that exact same method used in the movie "Mad Max".
If course that was a movie about a dystopian future where there is no law or civilized society ...
;)
Let’s blame Russia 🇷🇺
I heard it was Trumps fault. "Let's Go Brandon"
I feel bad for the righteous people who have to live with these criminals.
Hell getting shop lifted is getting off easy your lucky if you don't get shot or your head bashed in. God bless anyone who works with the public
I was born and raised in the city and I love my people but it hurts to see the people that provide a service going to these lengths to keep the business going it cost money to put on chains and locks
You know why no one ever steals from mexican cartels? Because they know how to send a message.
loved my bodega owners. hope they survive all of this!
This is why the prices keep rising. The stores had no other choice but to let the thieves take whatever they want and simply charge it back to the customers, while the perpetrators get released as soon as possible
cc the system is broken will it be fixed?
False its all insured.
@@ClarkKent-tg6ls LMAO. Get out of here
What? Are you serious 😳
You definitely can't run any business without insurance!
Judge a man/women/they by the character. I'm not afraid or really that affected by the 1% as much as the 13%.
These thief have more right than anyone.
This is what it's come down to.
The bad civilians ruin it for the good civilians…if only people behaved how they were raised and taught in school
Not bad civilians vs. Good, its illegal aliens vs. Already established (legal) American citizens.
School changed in the 90s. Now days it isn't 1+1=2 but "who is a boy and feels like a girl today?"
Some bodega in the Bronx and Manhattan are secretly guarded by some gang member so most of these shoplifter won’t even think twice of robbing there merchandise
How are people going to eat if you can't steal a sandwich
Bodega owners, Abandon NY and come to FL. We need more stores and restaurants.
*chain stores and chain restaurants
Florida has nothing against New York, NOTHING!
If I were the bodega owners….screw the cat, get a pit bull!
I admire these ppl.. and the crazy thing is when they do defend themselves, they end up doing 10+ ...
the city needs Travis Bickle(s).
The chains cracking me up 😂
Damn what u gotta do now ask for what u want and they Un chain it for you ?? 🤷♀️🤣
This is sad and infuriating.
NYC is deteriorating more faster than immediately!
Are they stealing detergent to resell or to actually wash clothes?
They could of changed the way things are but they chose not to this past November by voting the same clowns in. Like bodega owners you saw first hand how bad things were with these clowns in office and you go ahead and vote these same clowns in thinking things were going to change.
True, but I don't trust the voting process either. Everything is a fraud.
They won't ever learn
Protect your pockets. At all costs.
And yes they do have to lock everything up.
If the crime rates on the rise. Raise the punishment
That’s some real Bronx shit lol
Trust me we gotta better chance on stealing out of Walmart at least they’re shit won’t be out dated 😆 😂
make shoplifting a felony please. criminal lives don't matter but the public safety does.
There's no jobs rn...we about to go through it...I feel homeless in my apt. It's crazy rn
Be for real, y'all thought you were going to steal land and resources to build a livelihood and got this reality as reality.
Soon the doors will be locked and people have to purchase from a window
Get a bank drive thru window , nobody allowed in store ! Shut it down
Soon u gonna have to order everything online because people gonna get tired of having to get stuff unlocked
Stores need to be designed like old style general stores with everything on shelves behind the counter and everything else under glass. Why not?
Terrible
The first time i visited NY was on 2001 and i remember going shoping in Fordam Road and like 3 guys following and lurking around me it was very uncomfortable i really dislike the Bronx ever since.
Next will be windows where you tell them what you want and pay before getting it. I remember when every gas station was pump first and then in 1994 no one would pay for gas any more, so they all went to prepay.
The best way to fight crime is to let criminals off if they are caught. Brilliant, NYC!
some bodega's wont get insurance. i heard one by me wont get insurance cause it takes a while to make a claim. so they bought guns as the answer
Wife and I were planning to open a small business but we've put that idea to rest. There is no way we're going to invest during this social climate.
did he tell her to try to stay alive at the end there? LOL
Recently in Singapore they do that to milk powders but a very strong public outcry actually made the supermaket to think again by locking up the items
And yet gas stoves are the biggest problem the state of New York has to face
and ppl (like me) fleeing Ny for more affordable options.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what do you expect who stealing ? What they look like? The same two usual suspects ?
I’m from nyc the Bronx to be exactly if they doing this in all the stores I won’t shop there at all if I have to wait for somebody to come unlock the Duffy looking chains this is so stupid and it’s just gonna hurt them.
This is a message for the Bodega owners If you're watching this video and reading this message don't do that you're gonna lose so much business your stores are gonna close that's a guarantee
Smh people be doin too much
Certain people