Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth tells shareholders that loss prevention by locking up inventory caused increased theft ...

American pharmacy store chain Walgreens has discovered that locking its wares behind lock and key in an apparent effort to ...

The Bay Area is an epicenter of shoplifting, and one San Francisco Walgreens even chained an entire freezer shut in 2023. Wentworth called the fight against retail theft a “hand-to-hand combat ...

Walgreens' strategy of locking up merchandise — from deodorants to bags of M&M's — to deter theft has backfired, according to ...

Walgreens started placing some products under lock and key in response to a rise in shoplifting and other retail theft. In ...

Walgreens started placing some products under lock and key in response to a rise in shoplifting and other retail theft. In November, San Francisco police said they arrested eight retail suspects ...

Walgreens' CEO has admitted that locking up items to avoid shoplifting has not worked ... it would close a dozen locations across San Francisco. Another previously announced Oakland ...

Walgreens wouldn't say crime contributed to the closures, but these locations have been plagued by shoplifting for years. "No, we need this," Catrina Mckneely, a San Francisco resident said.