Chains say retail theft is on the rise, but their response — locking everyday items in glass cases — is driving some consumers to shop online instead. Plus, the “uncommitted' campaign's results.
At CVS stores in the city, shoppers may be able to grab certain variations of a product, such as Nivea body wash, but others must be unlocked for them by an employee.
🔑 It’s not clear how widespread retail theft really is. Data tracking is unreliable, and chains are not forthcoming about how often it occurs in their stores. Philly election officials said they would count any write-in votes marked “uncommitted” as void, since Pennsylvania law states only votes for people must be tallied. And in the 2024 primary election, the vast majority of write-in votes cast by Democrats were marked void.We can’t be sure exactly. But of 16,216 write-in votes, more than 90% were voided — a huge surge from 2022.
Amid the city’s push to end the Kensington opioid market, the Philly District Attorney’s Office charged a 21-year-old drug manufacturer
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