Damn....I remember when he was popular in the 90's in the movie scream and now he's robbing Winco's. Hollywood really does chew you up and spit you out.
Kudos to Portland WinCo I work in the Salem WinCo and we stopped people too. It's too bad all these other companies can't grow a pair and stop thieves from stealing
Hey, those c suite suits pay image consultants a lot of money to give them bad advice. That's where terms like shrinkage came from to take the place of theft. 😉👍
WinCo's security is really tight I've noticed. It's cuz the employees own part of the franchise they are super motivated to stop thievery. Plus their prices are cheap AF too. I bet they do that so very low income people can eat. Stealing from them is like stealing from church honestly. It's really immoral.
Unfortunately, portland has a law preventing security from taking things out of people's hands, something about show of force, loss prevention and observe and report. hooowever if the subject gets aggressive towards employees, customers or themselves is when security can actually take action
Portland used to be so wonderful I moved here from South Houston Texas. First time in a long time I was able to leave my front door open the whole night that was 2009 by 2014 things drastically changed and now the city is nothing like what it used to be .
ALWAYS one of you nerds in here, and I’m done with it. Portland is no different than the failing country in sits in. Florida’s homeless population is like 3rd in the country.
@@mackswellggper capita is more important data. Florida doesn't make the top 10 while Oregon is number 3 for number of homeless per capita. Florida has over 21m and Oregon has 4m people in their state. thats why theres so much more homeless there. Btw we're talking about cites so why bring up a state? large parts of Portland is filled with homeless, drugged addicts, criminals, trash and woke activist lunatics that its not the same after the BLM riots. Tbh used to be one of the most beautiful place now it is robbed by graffiti, needles and delusions.
This is the one on 82nd and Powell, right? That whole intersection is something else. The TikTok parking lot across the street is fentanyl grand central. And even with the 7-11 gone, all the bullshit still happens there. 82nd is a mess. America DESPERATELY needs mental health services for everyone who needs them.
I was staying at the cheap motel behind the tik tok and people were always coming up to the room across from me Knocking and sliding money under the door then a little bag would slide back out and they would leave no talking just service all day everyday I was there. Clearly door service dealer which I was surprised to find they still do it like that and that no one seemed to care.
America needs more mental health care and rehabilitation centers. These people are growing exponentially. Edit: The amount of people opposed to rehabilitation and mental health care is crazy.
I am surprised that all stores haven’t gone to the Costco membership model to refuse any costumers except approved ones. Then put in barriers to make sure no nonmembers enter the store.
Because it's failing for Costco as it is, no shop wants to lose the little custom they have left, it's better to have slight loss from theft than a major loss due to company policy 🤷
@UnRu1eD As I stated. I've been almost everywhere in Florida on vacations and had family living there. You obviously have no idea what it's like here. Come visit Portland and/ or Seattle. You will understand
Bro I live 15 minutes away from Portland and confirm this shit is 100% real. You wouldn’t believe half the shit that goes on on a daily basis in that city
The concept was a good one. But the execution was straight TRASH!!!! When Walmart decides that they are losing too much& not making enough & leave the city. Now you have Albertsons & Fred Meyer potentially doing the same. The domino's are falling & as a mom to young kids this place is no longer healthy enough. This is coming from a girl that went to high school in Rockwood when the murder rate was higher than that of Compton. It's depressing. I loved it here.
All excellent points I don’t live in Portland I just work there. I live in Vancouver Washington and even though I see some fall out here it’s definitely not as bad.
Attacking homeless people for being hungry?? no that’s not what needs to happen what needs to happen is the community needs to start helping homeless people have a better way of living instead of living off the streets and starving to death and shooting drugs up and making that legal to needs to change is everything about Portland and Oregon
Nope Portland police won’t even go after the guy who hit & run my car. I had pictures of the guy, his vehicle and license plate plus security camera footage of the entire incident. “Sorry mam nothing we can do.” In addition 2 bystanders willing to make statements!!!! I was born in Portland and have lived here my entire 70 years. Just moved 35 miles away.
@@missieyong9063 hope you have uninsured motorist coverage. Your insurance will go after the registered owner of the at fault vehicle. Sorry to hear that.
What do you think the poilice are supposed to do about this? If you have all the information you don't need them for an investigation. your next step is to call your insurance and they handle it through the courts. That's not the police's job. Similarly its not their job to provide loss prevention for stores. Neither of these things are police issues. The more you know!@@missieyong9063
in southern oregon at our local winco they will detain you and have you arrested on the spot for any theft regardless of the amount. we don’t play that shit down here.
Thus the reason "Try that in a Small Town" resonated with so many people outside the big city hell holes. It is about dealing with and correcting criminal behavior.
@@nevermind4156and you seemed to have missed the guy grabbing the stuff out of his hands is clearly a cashier. Nothing on the back of his shirt, no hat, clearly different pants and shoes. Oh ya and the fact that his wearing a cashiers apron
Weird to worry about people trying to eat when there's real crimes happening elsewhere. If he was trying to steal something expensive to sell, that's different. Looks like they grabbed food from him though.
Went to college up the street from here and frequented this Winco. This is honestly not that uncommon to see this kind of neurotic behavior… 82nd street is wack.
I used to work at Winco back when it was cub foods (and there were almost no cameras). You ever wanted to see a beat down, you just had to watch the night crew catch a shoplifter. It was like WWE flying bodies, suplexes and usually a shoplifter running like hell.
Stores are not responsible for catering or accommodating mental health issues. They are in BUSINESS which requires the trade of goods for money. They dont stay open if that transaction doesnt happen, like it or not.
@@Haltestelle7Reborned Gaslighting BS. Stores lost about $94.5 billion in revenue in 2021 through shoplifting. Only a fool thinks that they are going to eat that loss and not pass it on to the consumer. Moreover, price increases are only the first consequence, the second being store closure, which is happening all over in places with high retail losses, because at a certain point it simply is not worth staying open in that area. This negatively affects everyone in the neighbourhood, if not the entire city, and generates additional economic burdens for those who are already at the bottom. Stop excusing criminal behaviour.
The companies & owners of said companies are the criminals. I hope all companies keep raising the price on goods, & I hope shoplifters keep shop lifting. America fucking sucks ass.
@@justinhorton993 The grocery store by my mothers house closed because the theft was so bad it was not worth keeping open and now the nearest grocery is a few miles away. Since she is over 70, doesn't drive, and uses a walker due to a double knee replacement, instead of doing a short walk and getting a little exercise, she now has to recruit help from others to drive her just to get food to eat. That's no dream, that's reality. Theft raises prices. Theft closes stores. Theft creates food deserts. Theft creates more poverty. You are not riding the moral high horse that you think you are. Stop being such an insufferably naive ideologue and making excuses for criminals.
The way he says "You're not supposed to be in here 🤓". As someone who lives in Oregon, I can confirm that pretty much every supermarket manager talks like that.
@@corisamuelson I know they own shares. That's what I said in the OP. And I'm sure it has something to do with security actually stopping the guy and not letting him walk out without paying like Target or Walmart would.
Portland doesn’t want a Walmart, terrible business practices, terrible ethics, owners bar pregnant women from taking paid leave. There’s a reason Walmart thrives in poor counties
@@taucetus3657 I only realized there were no Walmarts in Portland when I needed to buy freeze dried backpacking meals and Walmart was the only store that carried them.
While staying in Portland for a few months due to my husband being on ECMO life support, I went into this Winco one night to grab a few things. 5 minutes in and I start seeing a bunch of teenagers running in all different directions, literally jumping OVER the top of the aisles while the employees try to corral and block them into one area using those orange metal wall things they use to block off an aisle while they restock/clean it. They were yelling at them to leave the store because they had been trespassed for theft many times in the past, but these teens didn’t care. They made it out with a couple cases of alcohol. The employees seemed so defeated and upset. They didn’t even call the police because, quote, “it’s pointless and a waste of time”. At a Ross Dress for less, a woman walked in and grabbed as many clothes as she could carry and walked right out the front door where her getaway car was waiting. She even caught a hanger on the door handle and took the time to remove it and be on her way. Loss prevention just stood there in the front and called for someone to call the police in her little ear piece. What else could she do? There is no confronting these people due to their own safety. It was sad to see and was a blessing to get back home to our small town in Central Oregon.
@@scottjones8406 they’re stopping a dude wearing a Halloween mask before he walks out of the store without paying for the things he grabbed. That’s the definition of someone trying to steal while protecting their identity. Plus he’s been barred and trespassed from the property, I’d imagine for stealing previously. So that’s at least 2 criminal charges right there for “literally nothing happening”
@@MENTALTAKEDOWNIt's actually a felony. A burglary charge. Because he is barred from there it would be considered trespassing. Because he committed a crime by stealing while he was trespassing it's now considered a felony. If he had any kind of a weapon it would be robbery.
The trick is at Costco they have somebody who's just approachable look over your receipt and compare to what you got before you can walk out the door and they're nice about it and they do it to everyone no matter what.
saw that same guy today at the Eastgate Fred Meyer. Yelling at security. As he was forced to leave. As I walked by security I said " I'd ask you how your day's going but I already know" He just laughed and said " Welcome to Eastgate Fred Meyer! " with a warm smile! What a good security guard. My man.
@@bugvswindshield I wasn’t meaning to be a jerk 🫣 Portland has changed a LOT so I thought there was some new ish but then realized you were talking about Gateway. Tone via text and whatnot. I recently saw someone comment about “skimimarinky dinky doo” and I’ve decided wrong as it is, I like that version better.
Back when I was about 10 I was following my older brother and his crew. We all went into a store, and they talked me into stealing a candy bar. Thank God when we got home my dad took us all in the back of the house and beat the shit out of us. We never did such idiocy again because we realize we are affecting the family.
Stores finally realized that security was cheaper than all the theft, which was only going to get worse. Also, it makes the store safer for employees and customers.
Winco is different. See how the employee was acting? He is motivated to act this way because store losses literally affects his share because Winco is like 100% employee owned.
Really...? You do realize that this exact thing is playing out in cities all over the country, right? But I guess it's easier to just say "drugs are bad mkay" then acknowledge and address the selfishness, greed and systemic issues that got us to this point. But you know you're right, the problem is that we aren't imprisoning enough people in this country for nonviolent and victimless crimes. What a brilliant take, thank you. Just for the record, drugs should be legalized and regulated, which has not happened in Portland, despite what people like you may say or believe. Portland has only decriminalized possession of small personal amounts which is a step in the right direction but fails to address many of the issues such as qc/safety, education and rehabilitation and elimination of the black market. The world yearly drug trade is estimated to be ~$600 Billion and is increasing every year and instead of acknowledging history and the fact that the war on drugs failed on all counts, drugs are more potent and prevalent than ever and that throughout history people have been getting high on psychoactive substances and since there will always be a demand a market will always arise to meet that demand. Instead of acknowledging that and saying "ok we will never be able to completely eliminate recreational drug use", which is a fact given that many drugs that people take recreationally are prescription medications, "If we can't stop it all together how can we reduce the risk and harm that they potentially cause and educate the public responsibly of the very real risks that their use can entail without reverting to the tried and failed reefer madness style propaganda" Instead of doing/saying that we just continue to fund and fight our failed war on drugs which was doomed from the start. It's the literal definition of insanity, trying to do the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. Instead of taxing that over half a trillion $ and using the funds towards things like education and rehabilitation, we just give it to literally the worst people on the planet that often use that $ to buy weapons and fund wars. We saw what happened when we tried this with alcohol and how disastrous that was which is a drug that is just as or even more addictive and damaging than most illegal recreational drugs, it's just socially acceptable... But maybe you're right, we just need to lock up more people like the person that doesn't drink or smoke but like to trip or get high on the weekend, it being one of the few things in life that they enjoy and look forward to and that distracts and provides relief from their dead end pos minimum wage job, and the knowledge that they will never be able to afford a home or support a family in this dystopia that we live in
To be fair, Portland's always been a drug haven(at least as far as as i remember growing up here). It's also always had a pretty bad homeless problem(at least since the Reagan administration). But both issues really seemed to go nuclear around 2016-17. Yes, the economy here got real sh*tty after the '07-'08 recession, but now it looks like a freakin refugee zone in many areas. i actually don't blame the political policies as much as i blame other communities that won't adopt the same responsibilities for their own citizens. It's not just rural Oregon that casts away it's impoverished to the city. Even affluent suburbs like Lake Oswego & Beaverton give the homeless trimet tickets & tell them to go to Old Town for services. And there's a staggering number of homeless from other states who've shown up in Portland because their hometowns' idea of homeless outreach is buying them a Greyhound bus ticket. It can't only be the liberal so called "sanctuary cities" that take on the country's impoverished. The resources are just spread to thin. All communities, rural, urban, or suburban need to make an investment in taking care of their own. Unfortunately, i foresee most conservative communities continuing to see all of our homeless as a problem that only liberal cities should be responsible for.
@@iriswiater9887the true stupidity was criminalising them in the first place. Alcohol is THE WORST drug yet isn't criminalised due to the harm it being illegal has caused. The problem is the government didn't set up support systems and just legalised in a screwed economy, if we all had good healthcare, food and home access this wouldn't be a problem.
This is sad! Oregonian here. Went into a Walmart today. A armed guard with a bullet proff vest in full tactal gear was by the doors. Could not believe in my well est home town! The guard was in full gear at the richer end of town. Half expected at the lower income end. But only half. Never all over our town!
This is my actual WinCo. There's a bottle drop outside so it attracts a lot of houseless folks, and doesn't have as many cameras as other spots so it's easier to robin hood from.
Well, he is isn't a good person now, good people doesn't steal and make hard working people deal with this crap. He could have got help, still can. alot of People could gave fallen thru the cracks,but they used their back bone. We all have it hard dude, your just a whining cry baby, you can tell by your whining voice complaining about employees walking around. How dare you. Lets stop using fallen thru the cracks to justify stealing or other weak & bad behavior.
I say, “Thanks for looking out.” To security when I see them walking by. I go to this winco all the time. I’ve lived in this Nabor hood for fifteen years, I’m buying a house twenty block away. Since the law passed to legalize the possession of hard drugs. It has gotten much worse. The homeless camps around the area are constantly coming and going. Crazy drugged our people are walking around. I see them use drugs at the park. They use the park bathroom to sell and use drugs.
I don't know if people realize this, but WinCo is an employee owned cooperative. I would not recommend trying to steal from them, especially repeatedly.
I actually love shopping WinCo. Great prices, good selection, employee owned. You might be surprised to hear crazies and shoplifters aren't brand-loyal - and can be found at virtually every grocery store ;)
This is why every store is leaving Portland and the ones who arent are locking up all items. I went to a store and had to ask for them to unlock the 2.99 generic orajel! It was crazyness!!! 😮
