Food Now Being Kept Behind Lock and Key After Soaring Prices Make It More Expensive Than Ever

Between inflation and rampant (unpunished) crime, the Democrats have destroyed our once great civilization.

Sardines and Spam Being Kept Behind Lock and Key Amidst Soaring Food Prices

By: Western Journal,August 1, 2022:

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Things are getting so bad in Joe Biden’s America today that stores are feeling the need to lock up food items so that they won’t be stolen, either by starving people or by criminals looking to turn a quick buck in an economy where food prices are skyrocketing.

According to the New York Post, small grocery and convenience stores in the Big Apple are putting even some traditionally inexpensive foods in plastic, anti-theft cases in a desperate attempt to prevent loss.

Stores are putting cans of Spam, ham, sardines, tuna fish, and similar small food items in the oversized, plastic lockboxes.
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The Post added that small items of food aren’t the only things ending up in lock boxes. Other small items of necessity, such as toothpaste, soap, deodorant, and the like are also being theft-proofed as both crime and prices soar.

One clerk told the Post there are at least four instances of shoplifting every work shift now.

“With inflation out of control,” the Post added, “the consumer price index spiked 9.1 percent in June compared to a year ago, even as President Biden this week refused to acknowledge the nation is in a recession despite the economy contracting two quarters in a row — emboldened thieves have found a ready market for discounted stolen goods among recession-weary consumers.”

In New York City — like many other Democratic-run major cities in the country — crime is also out of control as progressive prosecutors like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg willfully turn a blind eye to lawbreaking. That leaves business owners as well as regular citizens at the mercy of the criminal element.

Shoplifting and small theft reports are up 52 percent in Midtown over last year, according to the New York Police Department. It’s no coincidence that Bragg’s term as Manhattan’s DA started in January.

And according to Hormel, the company that produces Spam, another price hike is coming for the popular product as increased costs in transportation, packaging, and meat soar, CBS News reported.

Many Americans are painfully familiar with the rampant rise in the cost of a gallon of gasoline. But food prices have also soared to never-before-seen highs in this Biden era.

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