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Walgreens becoming an easy target for pharmacy holdups
Pharmacy robberies have been rising steadily over the past several years, in the Twin Cities and across the nation. But the pain is not shared equally across all the various drugstore chains. In the past five years, two-thirds of the robberies have taken place at Walgreens.
This year, 16 of the 19 pharmacy robberies in Minneapolis have been at Walgreens. The Uptown, Northeast, and Midtown Lake Street Walgreens have been robbed four times each, the Walgreens on Hiawatha three times.
"It's scary," said a Walgreens pharmacist at the store in Calhoun Village, who didn't want her name used, since Walgreens does not allow its employees to talk to the press.
The string of robberies concerns Lt. Mike Fossum of the Minneapolis Police Department.
"Sobota ended up cooperating with us and told the reason they prefer Walgreens: 'They give you everything you ask for and more,'" recalls Fossum, who interviewed the Unibrow Robber after his arrest. "And they feel like they get cheated at CVS because they give them less."
In a recent CNBC documentary it was noted that Walgreens is the most robbed retail chain. Thieves steal over $2 million every day from Walgreens retail stores. Not only are the stores robbed but the delivery trucks are also hijacked the most. Walgreens looses $1 billion a year to theft & unnecessarily endangers their employees, contractors & customers lives due to their company policy.
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