In New York, everything’s a five-finger discount these days.
The Big Apple has become a shoplifter’s paradise — with reported retail thefts hitting record levels for the second year in a row in 2022, a Post analysis of police data shows.
The number of shoplifting complaints surged to more than 63,000 last year — a 45% jump over the roughly 45,000 reported in 2021 and a nearly 275% jump compared to the mid-2000s, the statistics show.
“People keep taking things and we can’t stop them,” one frustrated employee told The Post on Thursday inside a Lower Manhattan Target that was hit hundreds of times.
“It’s a problem with all retail in the area. At some point, there won’t even be a store.”
The staggering data highlights business owners’ recent woes as they continue to wait for Mayor Eric Adams to make good on his promise two months ago to help during a citywide summit.
[Little brother was in the city at 7 a.m. one day this week and took a picture of Park Avenue. Not. A. Soul. No taxis, no cars, nary a body on the sidewalks. One of the major boulevards in America’s largest city and it was dead. They’ve pretty much killed it. Nothing they are doing will bring it back.~ Beege]
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