Grab-and-run shoplifters terrorize luxury NYC boutiques

This is happening every week. Walk around Soho on Wooster Street and Greene Street, Mercer Street. & You have huge bouncers out there trying to deter hit-and-run activity, the source, a restaurateur, said.

But in some cases, the thieves are given carte blanche to steal.

If they [store personnel] stop them and say anything in the store before they ve left the building then it often gets turned into a racial accusation, the source said.

The brands & tell their employees to walk away, the insider added. They don t want to be the next Instagram video claiming they are a racist brand.

Soho store managers, especially those employed by national retailers, remain tightlipped for fear of R-word reprisal, bad publicity or tarnishing their brand, the source said.

via nypost.com

But this is probably it. Things won’t get worse. They never do.