Customers now have to request assistance from an employee if they want to buy paper towels.
A CVS store in Washington D.C. has made the decision not to display toilet paper on its shelves after a rise in thefts.Customers now have to request assistance from an employee to retrieve the product from the store's backroom. The decision at the store on H Street NE in the nation's capital was made following reports of homeless people pilfering toilet paper, according to sources cited by WTOP news.
, characterizing it as a nationwide concern.He said: 'First, I want to say this: this is not just an H street or a D.C. problem—this is something that's going on all over the country, right? The economy is going up, cost of living is going up ... If people are stealing ... items, necessities, you know, I think maybe we should take a look at that. Maybe those are things that we don't increase or maybe as a community we provide that ...
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