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   The Long Beach City Council this summer passed a first-in-the-nation   
   ordinance that puts new rules in place for check-out lanes in certain   
   stores. Proponents say the new measure would prevent retail theft.   
      
   The “Safe Stores Are Staffed Stores” ordinance went into effect last   
   month, requiring larger “drug retail” stores and “food retail” over a   
   certain size to:   
      
   Staff one employee to every three self-checkout kiosks   
      
   Limit the use of self-checkouts to 15 items or less   
      
   Disqualify items that require customer ID for purchase or are locked for   
   purchase   
      
   Open a staffed checkout lane before any self-checkout stations are operated   
      
   Prominently display signage explaining the new rules   
      
   Derek Smith, political director for UFCW local 324, told LAist that   
   workers were overseeing too many self-check out lanes, sometimes as many   
   as five or six. Self-checkout understaffing “presented an opportunity   
   not only for theft, but just frustrated customers who also might need   
   help,” said Smith, whose union represents grocery store employees and   
   was a sponsor of the ordinance.   
      
   The ordinance applies to more than a dozen stores in Long Beach. In   
   response, at least four Albertsons Companies grocery locations in the   
   area have shut down their self-checkout lanes.   
      
   Who is against it   
      
   In a letter opposing the ordinance dated Aug. 12, the Long Beach Area   
   Chamber of Commerce wrote they were disappointed that none of their   
   recommendations for the ordinance, like a “150-day implementation   
   delay,” were considered.   
      
   “ The retail theft component to this is really just a misnomer,” Nate   
   Rose, vice president of communications for the California Grocers   
   Association, told LAist. “The argument they've made is adding employees   
   into the self-checkout will reduce theft.”   
      
   Actually, Rose said, most retail employees are discouraged by their   
   employers to intervene in situations where theft is occurring.   
      
   The California Grocers Association had previously joined the Chamber of   
   Commerce in submitting recommendations to adjust the ordinance.   
      
   “This will make life less convenient for shoppers. It will also   
   potentially make groceries more expensive at a time when people are   
   already severely concerned about affordability,” Rose said.   
      
   Smith, with the union, is optimistic the ordinance will have its   
   intended effects and said the union is hoping to expand it to other cities   
      
   “I think it’s important that Long Beach isn’t the only city to do a   
   thing like this," Smith said. "It’s about workers, you know, more than   
   just Long Beach workers."   
      
   No, it's not about workers at all.   
      
   It is 100% about Democrats refusing to hold niggers accountable for the   
   petty crimes they are committing.  Democrats have refused to teach   
   niggers responsibility.   
      
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   new-check-out-lane-rules   
      
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