New York Store Owners Are Now Putting Lock Lids On Pints Of Ice Cream Due To Shoplifting

Shoplifting In New York Has Made Store Owners Now Putting Lock Lids On Pints Of Ice Cream Due

Shoplifting in New York City is reportedly so bad that pints of ice-cream now have anti-theft lids on them.

The special locked lids can be found on some high end pints such as Häagen-Dazs. The lock lid reportedly can only be removed with a device at the register.

A customer notice sign taped on a freezer door in the Fairway city market read: “To help maintain the lowest possible cost, a protective lock has been placed on some units of ice-cream”, it said.

 

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“This lock will be removed at checkout by a store associate. We apologize for any inconvenience”.

Images of another Manhattan market store near by with a padlock on its freezers are also beginning to spread.

According to an employee at the store, “People used to come with garbage bags and fill the bags up with ice-cream”. He said.

A little over 13k shoplifting thefts have been reported in the city of New York for the first half of 2023 so far.