Tucker Carlson gets roasted for praising decades-old shopping cart tech in Russia

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Tucker Carlson interview Vladimir Putin
Tucker Carlson has been touring Moscow and posting videos of himself experiencing aspects of daily life.

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Target and Walmart stores in the Bay Area are locking up underwear and socks to prevent shoplifting

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Products are locked behind glass as a person shops at a Target store in the Harlem neighborhood in Manhattan on September 28, 2023 in New York City.
Products are locked behind glass as a person shops at a Target store in the Harlem neighborhood in Manhattan on September 28, 2023 in New York City.

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Sephora is embracing the most annoying anti-theft policy

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shelves of perfume in Sephora
Sephora now stores away its perfume, displaying only the tester bottles.

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Anti-theft vending machines could solve one of our biggest shopping frustrations

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Vending machines could replace store shelves.

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Is shoplifting getting worse? It depends on how you measure it.

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Courtroom with piles of personal care items stolen in organized retail crime
Some of the more than $200,000 in stolen retail goods seized by the San Francisco Police Department from a man who was reselling them online.

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San Francisco's retail crime may not be as bad as you think

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A police cruiser outside a boarded-up Fendi retail store in San Francisco in November 2021
A police cruiser outside a boarded-up Fendi retail store in San Francisco in November 2021.

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I tried Walmart's self-checkout to see if it was as frustrating as some shoppers say. Here's what I found.

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Dominick Reuter in front of a Walmart store.
I tried unsuccessfully to make Walmart's self-checkout kiosk mad at me.

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A running store in Paris invited people to steal its products — if they could outrun one of France's fastest sprinters disguised as a security guard

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French running store Distance hosted a one-day promo where shoppers could keep whatever they could get away with.

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Walmart shoppers say they are fed up with the store's self-checkout system

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Customers check out at a Walmart store.
Walmart began rolling out a missed-scan feature for its self-checkout lanes starting in 2019.

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Target says it's closing 9 locations over crime, but New York City crime stats surrounding its East Harlem store tell another story

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the exterior entrance of Target in East Harlem
Target said it would close this location on 117th Street in New York, along with eight other US stores.

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