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80 person heist happened yesterday on a Nordstorm in Walnut Creek California
- Thread starter Squarehard
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I get that. But what happens when the corps move out or beef up security? Only targets left are going to be small shops and people's homes. Maybe we should stop the theft in general.
Blackwater will be licking their lips when the emaciated skeletons of retailers like Walmart come crawling looking for a more intimidating security force to fight back against this.
The outcomes to deter these things are never fun. Recently within 2 weeks, 2 innocent people commuting on the highway were shot and killed. The answer (of course isn't gun related) is to add MORE cameras on the highway. Prob won't deter anything, but more eyes around is the answer here.
More theft will prob mean more security/cops. Just went to a new Japanese grocery that opened and I guess they hired a security guard out front. Sucks to see this, but some of these crime stats have some business owners worried and willing to hire private security. Could lead to even more profiling, with all these worries/tensions, and just... overall not good.
I'm expecting a lot more of these closer to Christmas. Absolutely ridiculous that this is even happening.
When I worked retail, they pretty much told me to let loss prevention handle it and never attempt to stop theft. No reason to put yourself in danger like that.
When I worked retail, they pretty much told me to let loss prevention handle it and never attempt to stop theft. No reason to put yourself in danger like that.
This happened again Sunday night apparently.
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
UPDATE: Smash-and-Grab Thieves Target Hayward Mall; Lululemon Store Robbed in San Jose's Santana Row
Looters targeting Bay Area businesses struck again Sunday evening, with smash-and-grab thieves hitting the Southland Mall in Hayward and suspects taking merchandise from a Lululemon store in San Jose.
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
This happened again Sunday night apparently.
UPDATE: Smash-and-Grab Thieves Target Hayward Mall; Lululemon Store Robbed in San Jose's Santana Row
Looters targeting Bay Area businesses struck again Sunday evening, with smash-and-grab thieves hitting the Southland Mall in Hayward and suspects taking merchandise from a Lululemon store in San Jose.
I linked the Hayward one last page, but didn't even see the Santana Row thing. Yeah, they are really picking and chosing specific hits all over. I wonder if it's the same group doing it.
we are fast tracked to to apocalypse, and guess what? on the list of blame for this, the looters would be last on a long list of like a billion things.
Indeed. And it does absolutely nothing to solve any root cause issues that enabled this in the first place. Unfortunately, any changes to address the root causes will probably take a decade or so before you start seeing clear effects. Kids needs to grow up under them and so on.
Can't believe people are cheering this on. These kind of people wouldn't hesitate to ransack people's homes either.
With that many robbers there's no chance they all get away with it, at least a few will be identified for sure.
They used violence, their only motive is the theft itself and whatever money they can make out of it. You shouldn't be cheering them on, because they would terrorise you in that exact same situation if you were there just like what they did to the staff and people there.
They used violence, their only motive is the theft itself and whatever money they can make out of it. You shouldn't be cheering them on, because they would terrorise you in that exact same situation if you were there just like what they did to the staff and people there.
They ain't no Robin Hoods that's for damn sure. But some are sure acting like it.
For real. Not stealing shit is a pretty basic tenet for society to function.
It's almost impressive. How the fuck do you get 80 people to all coordinate for these things? You can hardly get 2-3 people to agree on where to eat lunch.
This is super close to me.This happened again Sunday night apparently.
UPDATE: Smash-and-Grab Thieves Target Hayward Mall; Lululemon Store Robbed in San Jose's Santana Row
Looters targeting Bay Area businesses struck again Sunday evening, with smash-and-grab thieves hitting the Southland Mall in Hayward and suspects taking merchandise from a Lululemon store in San Jose.
I thought the robberies were going on as recent as a few years ago. I know they tore them down a long time ago, but people still linger around there. I was waiting for an uber on Division near the Dave and Busters in River North and just slid in a 7-11 because it was too much activity on the corner.
I did see someone on my TL talking about one that just happened in the burbs a few days ago.
I was going to say the Dark Web, but I would laugh if we end up finding out it was coordinated through a Facebook group. With that many people from the same local area, I would imagine the communication method can't be too complicated.
But yeah jeers to the people cheering on the looters and terrorizing minimum wage employees. Also if you steal an iPhone from a retail store, you're not hurting Apple. You're just hurting the local branch who usually have to eat the losses and worst case that local store will shutdown / relocate if they continue to have significant losses. But the fat cat mustache twirling CEOs and stockholders wont lose a wink of sleep over this and won't feel it in their bank account whatsoever. So no need to cheer these criminals on. They're just terrorizing low-hanging fruit. So heroic.
We had a few of these around 10 years ago in London. Boys on motor-scooters doing smash and grabs on jewellers.
I hate the obsession with money and big corporations as much as the next person, but treating this as a good thing outside of the employees being assaulted is fucking weird and honestly pretty naive.
Yeah, Nordstrom as a corporate entity is not going to be hurt by this, but the local employees may be. It's also not like the people doing this are doing it for anything beyond their own personal greed and I'm sure as hell not going to celebrate that.
Yeah, Nordstrom as a corporate entity is not going to be hurt by this, but the local employees may be. It's also not like the people doing this are doing it for anything beyond their own personal greed and I'm sure as hell not going to celebrate that.
As someone who was once robbed at a gas station many years ago: Fuck these robbers and anyone who supports them and belittles these acts.
The criminals do not primarily harm the companies, but the employees. Physically and mentally.
They deserve to rot in jail for a long time. And I will not shed a tear if they are shot by police or security personnel.
The criminals do not primarily harm the companies, but the employees. Physically and mentally.
They deserve to rot in jail for a long time. And I will not shed a tear if they are shot by police or security personnel.
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Corporations won't be hurt by this. They are likely insured. What will be hurt is low level employees.
UPDATE: Police Warn of More Mass Robbery Attempts After Looters Ransack Walnut Creek Nordstrom
Dozens of looters swarmed into the Nordstrom store in downtown Walnut Creek Saturday night, terrorizing shoppers, assaulting employees, ripping off bag loads of merchandise and ransacking shelves before fleeing in a several vehicles waiting for them on the street.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Sounds like some sort of Black Friday nightmare.
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Loot thread if old.
I'm just waking up so I foolishly assumed this old Black Friday gif was the actual heist. I felt silly, did a search and discovered it is even more WTF than I could possibly imagine:
User banned (3 days): drive-by posting
Goddamn, 80 people!? Kudos to be able to organise that shit. :o
I'm honestly shocked 80 people can organize like this. They either used a facebook thing or are a fucking church group. Like how do that many people get together and go, "yeah, let's do crimes". Also, you know the more there are the quicker they'll turn on each other. All it would take is one to get caught before giving up the facebook group or magic the gathering tournament they come from.
Thanks for the post, Charles Bronson. lol. These always tickle me.
I remember when driving into the mall window for a literal smash and grab was big in Florida. Kinda funny how we've got a police state survailence wise for so many things but figure at least half of em and planned this weeks in advance on some social media platform and considering how sloppy this was done, probably in public posts.
lol I used to work at a college bookstore that would get hit from people stealing the expensive books. I would often try to follow them out of the store. I heard in future trainings people were told to not be like me haha.
Fuck off. The "heist/stealing" is what leads to people who are just working a job to feed their families to die at the hands of some dipshit thieves.
When groups use to crash the gates at Lolla, I heard it was a 4 chan board. They look more like a group of younger adults, so I wouldn't be surprised if its discord or something.
I'm laughing at people shrugging this off and then being shocked when minorities vote in law and order candidates....
Yes, it was very stupid. I remember back in the late 90's a local shoe store employee went chasing after some thieves and they killed him. Your life is never worth some company property.
There's a market for places like Nordstrom's. You've got people who have money, and are too busy/complacent to shop around at boutiques. You've got people who want to appear to have money, and Nordstrom's is low-end bougie that they can occasionally afford.
This is literally the opening scene in BMX Bandits (1983) except they are on scooters instead of badass bmx bikes.
First time on the internet?
Look at what reddit accomplished with stocks... or fucking better yet... January 6th.
