{"id":2008724,"date":"2023-08-22T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shoplifters-steal-carts-full-of-tide-walnut-creek-safeway-locks-up-detergent\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T21:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T01:32:42","slug":"shoplifters-steal-carts-full-of-tide-walnut-creek-safeway-locks-up-detergent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shoplifters-steal-carts-full-of-tide-walnut-creek-safeway-locks-up-detergent\/","title":{"rendered":"Tide thieves snatch carts, Safeway secures detergent."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshoplifters-steal-carts-full-of-tide-walnut-creek-safeway-locks-up-detergent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2008724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Protecting Tide Laundry Detergent from\u200d Shoplifters<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WALNUT CREEK, Calif.\u2014The \u200cSafeway grocery store at 600 S. Broadway is taking extra measures to safeguard its supply of Tide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-hurricane-ida-showed-the-value-of-americas-energy-boom\/\" title=\"How Hurricane Ida Showed The Value Of America\u2019s Energy Boom\">laundry detergent<\/a> from shoplifters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lieutenant Holley Connors of the Walnut Creek police department told The Epoch Times, \u201cLast week, another officer\u200d arrested someone for stealing detergent and they\u200b admitted that they sell \u2063it at the flea market on the weekends.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officials-calling-for-investigation-into-capitol-protest\/\" title=\"Officials calling for investigation into Capitol protest\">police reports<\/a>\u200c about Tide being shoplifted, people steal it to sell second hand at flea markets and street markets or\u2063 will trade the items as currency\u200b or for items such as drugs. \u200bIt is also big in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cynthia-nixon-denounces-anti-shoplifting-laws-stealing-basic-necessities\/\" title=\"Cynthia Nixon Denounces Anti-Shoplifting Laws: \u2018Stealing Basic Necessities\u2019\">organized retail crime<\/a> because it\u2019s not a traceable item.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/lowes-worker-rehired-after-being-fired-for-trying-to-stop-alleged-shoplifters-5421582\">Lowe&#8217;s Worker Rehired After \u200dBeing\u2063 Fired for Trying to Stop Alleged Shoplifters<\/a> \u2064 -\u2063 7\/25\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/colorado-supermarket-employee-fired-after-filming-shoplifters-stealing-on-fathers-day-5379481\">Colorado Supermarket Employee Fired After Filming Shoplifters Stealing\u200c on \u2063Father&#8217;s\u2062 Day<\/a> \u200c- 7\/6\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Safeway employee who does not want to be identified\u200b because he does not want to lose his job told The Epoch \u2063Times that they started locking it up 2\u20133 months \u2064ago during a remodel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne \u2063of the biggest problems we\u2019ve had is people coming in with shopping \u200bcarts and \u2062filling them up overflowing with Tide and running out\u2063 the door,\u201d the employee said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that people are especially taking \u200bthe Tide\u2064 pods because they are more expensive. This\u200b happened \u2064maybe three or four times per month within the last 6 months and has gotten worse at this store. The store\u2064 has put restraining orders on some of the shoplifters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also mentioned that the \u200demployees are not allowed to say or do\u200d anything to stop these shoplifters or they will lose their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy coworker who intervened lost his job but did save the products for the \u200bstore, about $300 worth of laundry detergent,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that his coworker intervened because he was fed up with this happening and decided to chase after the shoplifters and push\u2063 over the cart to prevent them from stealing. Since it was corporate \u200cpolicy not to intervene, he still \u2063lost his job even though he saved the detergent from being stolen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that if things don\u2019t get better, he thinks\u2062 more things will get locked up. He said the Tide gets locked\u200b up \u200bat this Safeway due to the amount of theft that happens there.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>A locked cabinet full of Tide \u200claundry detergent in \u200cthe Safeway store in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2023. (Helen Billings\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since\u200c the COVID-19 pandemic, this store has encountered more theft, and \u201cthat was the beginning of the end,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diana Martinez, a regular shopper from Concord, told The Epoch Times: \u201cI usually\u2063 have to go somewhere else to buy my detergent because I can\u2019t stand\u200c up long enough for them to unlock it. I wait and wait and sometimes they don\u2019t even show up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lieutenant \u200cConnors said she \u2064has caught people stealing \u2063these detergents before and it\u2019s common to talk to an officer who\u2019s dealt with a shoplifting involving detergent as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI honestly think this is just kind of the next thing,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it seems like when everyone finally\u200c starts locking \u2062things up, then it might be something else that\u2019s not locked \u200bup.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She added that shoplifting has always been happening in the background, but\u2063 she\u200d started to notice a trend 10\u201312 years ago. She \u200csaid they started with \u2064alcohol, then Crest White Strips, then razor \u2063blades, \u2062then baby formula, and now it&#8217;s laundry\u200b detergent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manny Ozonsi, a security guard \u200dfor this Safeway, told The Epoch\u200c Times that some \u2062of the shoplifters take\u200b the detergent to\u200b San Francisco to sell it to the Hondos (drug dealers of Honduran descent). They buy it to trade with\u2063 the cartels for more drugs\u200d to sell or sell it\u2062 on the black market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ozonsi said \u2064that the Hondos usually work at Mission and 24th or in\u2064 the Tenderloin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to RealClearInvestigations.com, there is a bigger problem going on\u200b in the Tenderloin, as\u2062 that\u2063 place is where\u200b two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shoplifters-steal-carts-full-of-tide-walnut-creek-safeway-locks-up-detergent\/\" title=\"Tide thieves snatch carts, Safeway secures detergent.\">organized crime networks meet<\/a>. One is centered on drugs and the other on theft. The website reported how the Sinaloa cartel is\u200b at \u200cthe top and supplies the Hondos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ozonsi \u200dsaid he has seen the Hondos\u2064 in the\u200d Tenderloin asking people how much they will sell the detergent for. He said that whoever goes\u200d to steal the detergent will usually go to Target, Walmart, or Safeway stores that do not lock up the detergent or have cameras monitoring it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He \u2064said that the shoplifters must know someone who has eyes in the \u2064store so \u2064they know what time to come\u2063 and steal the items. He\u2019s been approached before to be a \u201clookout\u201d who can inform the shoplifters about when it\u2019s a good time to steal the detergent, but he declined, he said.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He added that \u2064these shoplifters have been male or female, some\u2064 are homeless, and most are teenagers. He said shoplifting happens the most in the mornings and afternoons, and these kids are coming from San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat do you really gain out of doing this? Nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cWhere are their parents at?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a security guard,\u2062 Ozonsi is only allowed to observe \u2063and<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walnut Creek&#8217;s Safeway store secures Tide detergent to deter theft. Lt. 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