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A Fremont, CA hardware store lost $700,000 from shoplifters in 2022, as reported<\/a> by Jackson Walker of ABC News.\u00a0 The family-owned Dale Hardware provided security video of shoplifters pushing shopping carts full of stolen items out the door.\u00a0 The owners report that the consistent theft of hand tools like screwdrivers and wrenches are driving these losses.\u00a0 The story notes that the reduction of consequences for theft in California after the 2014 passage of Proposition 47, has created an epidemic of looting that has forced the closure of Bay Area stores including Walgreens, Nordstrom and numerous small retailers.\u00a0 Last year a San Francisco man was arrested<\/a> for marketing $500,000 worth of items stolen from Bay Area stores on Amazon, eBay and Facebook Marketplace.\u00a0 Similar problems are occurring in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento and cities in the central valley.\u00a0\u00a0 While most major retail chains forbid employees from confronting thieves, some smaller stores are fighting back.\u00a0 Last week CBS News reported<\/a> that two Stockton, CA 7-Eleven employees took down a masked thief who was brazenly filling a trash can with cigarettes.\u00a0 One of the employees was beating the thief with a stick until a customer intervened and stopped him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Fremont, CA hardware store lost $700,000 from shoplifters in 2022, as reported by Jackson Walker of ABC News.\u00a0 The family-owned Dale Hardware provided security video of shoplifters pushing shopping carts full of stolen items out the door.\u00a0 The owners report that the consistent theft of hand tools like screwdrivers and wrenches are driving these losses.\u00a0 The story notes that the reduction of consequences for theft in California after the 2014 passage of Proposition 47, has created an epidemic of looting that has forced the closure of Bay Area stores including Walgreens, Nordstrom and numerous small retailers.\u00a0 Last year a San Francisco man was arrested for marketing $500,000 worth of items stolen from Bay Area stores on Amazon, eBay and Facebook Marketplace.\u00a0 Similar problems are occurring in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Sacramento and cities in the central valley.\u00a0\u00a0 While most major retail chains forbid employees from confronting thieves, some smaller stores are fighting back.\u00a0 Last week CBS News reported that two Stockton, CA 7-Eleven employees took down a masked thief who was brazenly filling a trash can with cigarettes.\u00a0 One of the employees was beating the thief with a stick until a customer intervened and stopped him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-public-order"],"yoast_head":"\nHardware Store Loses $700,000 to Thieves - 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