Photographs show a New York City Walgreens store has locked up its candy — and chained the doors to its ice cream freezer — in what the national chain calls an effort to combat rampant shoplifting.

Fed-up New York City pharmacies and grocery stores are taking matters into their own hands, locking up pints of ice cream in chained freezers as rampant shoplifting continues to plague the Big Apple.

One CVS customer is calling out their local store for putting him in the “degrading” position of having to call for an employee to unlock a freezer just so he could buy some ice cream. A TikToker ...

Such is the sorry state of San Francisco, where stores have resorted to keeping coffee, mustard, syrup, lotion, and other basic grocery items under lock and key. One Walgreens in San Francisco, which ...