Grab & Go

My friendly neighborhood multinational retailer has remodeled and added various measures to prevent retail theft: individual cameras above the self-checkouts (I wave — or I go to a cashier) and one or two employees watching, directing traffic, and placing PAID stickers on oversized, unbaggable items.

Why then has this same retailer, already beset by theft, added to its often-unmonitored main entrance an area devoted to soda, snacks, and pre-made sandwiches, shielded from view by walls on two sides? The area is called Grab & Go. Indeed.