June 5, 2023 • 5 mins
Shopping at Walgreens looks a little different. Now everything is behind break proof glass, you must use a kiosk and someone shops for you. Thanks, thieves.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the videos are out of day one of shopping
at the new Walgreens in Chicago, in which everything is
locked up and you use a kiosk. The Walgreens said
it's testing a new experience at its store with new concepts, technologies,
and practices to enhance the experience of customers and team
Members's wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There's so much theft. Everything's locked up. This is a
new experience. I'm enjoying this experience.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I have to walk in and type into a kiosk
everything I want. Everything's behind a wall or glass, and
then somebody puts it all together in a cart, I guess,
and then rings me up and hands it to me.
I don't know if that enhances my experience. It does
change my experience. And obviously it's just Walgreens trying to
figure out how to stay in business and not shut
(00:47):
down their stores.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So they shut down.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I forget how many of those five seven stores in
the San Francisco area. They probably think, all right, well,
we're gonna have to readjust here. We just can't close
our stores, and all the big cities, we got to
come up with a way to be a business. So
in the modern world, you're gonna you're gonna go into
a kiosk. It's like the Starbucks I went to in
San francisco's telling you about, not like any Starbucks I've
ever been to my life. The building was so closed
(01:12):
off that the only public area was I don't know,
ten feet by ten feet. It was tiny. Then it
was just you walked up to a counter and there
was one person there and you could order whatever you want.
But that was the only employee available. Because they're trying
to protect their employees. This isn't like the right across
from Sachs Fifth Avenue in San Francisco. And then that
(01:33):
employee sends it in. The net's made behind a wall
somewhere and you can't see anything like that so they
don't get stolen from her threatened. And now so Walgreens
is doing that in Chicago. Everything's behind a wall where
they're putting on where they're putting together your basket, and
then they pay for it, and then after you've paid
for it, doesn't line you everything.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I like the fact that only the bravest, toughest Starbucks
employees can be allowed in front of the Great Wall.
They're like the Navy Seals of Starbucks. Congratulate. The training
is grueling. Here's what mystifies me, though, Why can't Walgreens
say civilization is crumbling? It's completely lawless. We can't have
(02:09):
products on the shelves. They get stolen too much. So
here's how we're handling it. I don't know we're going
to stay in your neighborhood, but we're making these changes.
We are experimenting with a new experience for you at Waldgrades.
Everything's locked up because there's so much, but they will
it's a new experience. How do you like it? Is
it a good experience? The hell? Everybody knows what's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's a good question, since everyone well, since you're not
fooling anybody anyway, But wouldn't it be to your benefit
to say things have gotten so out of control in
so many cities, we've had to change the way we
do businesses if we want to be open at all.
Instead of saying we're testing a new experience with new concepts,
technologies and practices to enhance the experience of our customers, what's.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Crazy to me is I was reading an article that's
target is actually their you know, philanthropic fund is funding
also of really radical political organizations. I mean way way left,
and it's bad and this word gets out that's not
gonna help target. But anyway, So if all these corporations
are willing to go full on woke, and you know
(03:14):
the list, you've seen it for various causes in supporting
the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization, but they're unwilling to say,
there's been so much shoplifting, we're gonna have to enhance
security at our stores, and here's how we're doing it,
because that's just I don't know, that's too much. We
don't want to say people might be offended or shocked
or something. I don't get it. So you're completely politically
(03:35):
active over there, but you can't say there's so much
theft we've had to lock up our goods.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Who would be offended in this I imaginary scenario you presented.
Who's going to offend that? I wouldn't think people who
live in that area would be offended. Everybody else is
not offended. We know last month, Chicago police urged stores
to install unbreakable glass shields over their existing windows because
you have to. By the way, it isn't just still
(04:01):
a Walgreens. Of course, Walmart has said they're gonna have
to raise prices and or closed stores to offset revenue loss.
Target said it lost four hundred million dollars due to
theft last year. I don't know what they normally do,
because all stores have been losing money to theft forever,
but four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Is a lot. Wow. Target, after they got looted after
the George Floyd thing, put out a statement saying, we're
listening to our communities and are committed to working with you.
So what the hell does that mean? Well, enjoy the
theft now, I promise this, I've got to pay it
all crazy? Why are we all accepting this? Why are
(04:41):
we all just accepting.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That for forever, for hundreds years, thousands of years, you
walked into store, there's stuff on the shelf, you walked
around and you looked at it, you picked it up,
you looked it over, you took it up, you paid
for Now, all of a sudden, we can't, and we're
just saying, well, I guess times change.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
What it's a new experience. What's the matter with they
of a thou and people surveyed, seventeen percent said they'd
voluntarily accept a non lethal shark bite if it meant
being the subject of headlines and news stories. So it's
not even twenty percent, but that's seventeen percent. Hurl them
into the water, water churning with bull sharks and let
(05:19):
them get bit one time, then write a newspaper article
about them. Joe Jones of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was
bit by the other day. Alert listener Lynn sent this,
It's from Myrtle Beach. I guess have them bit by
a shark and then ask them after, now, what do
you think? You're in the newspaper but you're gonna have
to have a fifth surgery next week? Huh, skippy? Have
(05:41):
we learned anything?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm not sure being on the in the newspaper is
going to be as exciting for you as you think
it is.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh, the herd doesn't need you. Go away. As my
son would say, natural selection, man, Natural selection.
So the videos are out of day one of shopping
at the new Walgreens in Chicago, in which everything is
locked up and you use a kiosk. The Walgreens said
it's testing a new experience at its store with new concepts, technologies,
and practices to enhance the experience of customers and team
Members's wow.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There's so much theft. Everything's locked up. This is a
new experience. I'm enjoying this experience.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I have to walk in and type into a kiosk
everything I want. Everything's behind a wall or glass, and
then somebody puts it all together in a cart, I guess,
and then rings me up and hands it to me.
I don't know if that enhances my experience. It does
change my experience. And obviously it's just Walgreens trying to
figure out how to stay in business and not shut
(00:47):
down their stores.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So they shut down.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I forget how many of those five seven stores in
the San Francisco area. They probably think, all right, well,
we're gonna have to readjust here. We just can't close
our stores, and all the big cities, we got to
come up with a way to be a business. So
in the modern world, you're gonna you're gonna go into
a kiosk. It's like the Starbucks I went to in
San francisco's telling you about, not like any Starbucks I've
ever been to my life. The building was so closed
(01:12):
off that the only public area was I don't know,
ten feet by ten feet. It was tiny. Then it
was just you walked up to a counter and there
was one person there and you could order whatever you want.
But that was the only employee available. Because they're trying
to protect their employees. This isn't like the right across
from Sachs Fifth Avenue in San Francisco. And then that
(01:33):
employee sends it in. The net's made behind a wall
somewhere and you can't see anything like that so they
don't get stolen from her threatened. And now so Walgreens
is doing that in Chicago. Everything's behind a wall where
they're putting on where they're putting together your basket, and
then they pay for it, and then after you've paid
for it, doesn't line you everything.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I like the fact that only the bravest, toughest Starbucks
employees can be allowed in front of the Great Wall.
They're like the Navy Seals of Starbucks. Congratulate. The training
is grueling. Here's what mystifies me, though, Why can't Walgreens
say civilization is crumbling? It's completely lawless. We can't have
(02:09):
products on the shelves. They get stolen too much. So
here's how we're handling it. I don't know we're going
to stay in your neighborhood, but we're making these changes.
We are experimenting with a new experience for you at Waldgrades.
Everything's locked up because there's so much, but they will
it's a new experience. How do you like it? Is
it a good experience? The hell? Everybody knows what's happening.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's a good question, since everyone well, since you're not
fooling anybody anyway, But wouldn't it be to your benefit
to say things have gotten so out of control in
so many cities, we've had to change the way we
do businesses if we want to be open at all.
Instead of saying we're testing a new experience with new concepts,
technologies and practices to enhance the experience of our customers, what's.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Crazy to me is I was reading an article that's
target is actually their you know, philanthropic fund is funding
also of really radical political organizations. I mean way way left,
and it's bad and this word gets out that's not
gonna help target. But anyway, So if all these corporations
are willing to go full on woke, and you know
(03:14):
the list, you've seen it for various causes in supporting
the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization, but they're unwilling to say,
there's been so much shoplifting, we're gonna have to enhance
security at our stores, and here's how we're doing it,
because that's just I don't know, that's too much. We
don't want to say people might be offended or shocked
or something. I don't get it. So you're completely politically
(03:35):
active over there, but you can't say there's so much
theft we've had to lock up our goods.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Who would be offended in this I imaginary scenario you presented.
Who's going to offend that? I wouldn't think people who
live in that area would be offended. Everybody else is
not offended. We know last month, Chicago police urged stores
to install unbreakable glass shields over their existing windows because
you have to. By the way, it isn't just still
(04:01):
a Walgreens. Of course, Walmart has said they're gonna have
to raise prices and or closed stores to offset revenue loss.
Target said it lost four hundred million dollars due to
theft last year. I don't know what they normally do,
because all stores have been losing money to theft forever,
but four hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Is a lot. Wow. Target, after they got looted after
the George Floyd thing, put out a statement saying, we're
listening to our communities and are committed to working with you.
So what the hell does that mean? Well, enjoy the
theft now, I promise this, I've got to pay it
all crazy? Why are we all accepting this? Why are
(04:41):
we all just accepting.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That for forever, for hundreds years, thousands of years, you
walked into store, there's stuff on the shelf, you walked
around and you looked at it, you picked it up,
you looked it over, you took it up, you paid
for Now, all of a sudden, we can't, and we're
just saying, well, I guess times change.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
What it's a new experience. What's the matter with they
of a thou and people surveyed, seventeen percent said they'd
voluntarily accept a non lethal shark bite if it meant
being the subject of headlines and news stories. So it's
not even twenty percent, but that's seventeen percent. Hurl them
into the water, water churning with bull sharks and let
(05:19):
them get bit one time, then write a newspaper article
about them. Joe Jones of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was
bit by the other day. Alert listener Lynn sent this,
It's from Myrtle Beach. I guess have them bit by
a shark and then ask them after, now, what do
you think? You're in the newspaper but you're gonna have
to have a fifth surgery next week? Huh, skippy? Have
(05:41):
we learned anything?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I'm not sure being on the in the newspaper is
going to be as exciting for you as you think
it is.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Oh, the herd doesn't need you. Go away. As my
son would say, natural selection, man, Natural selection.
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