Grocery stores add extra security to handle shopping rush
4 years, 9 months ago

Grocery stores add extra security to handle shopping rush

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New York CNN Business — Grocery stores are bringing on additional off-duty police officers and private security guards to help manage crowded aisles, long lines and jammed parking lots during the coronavirus outbreak. “This is a natural reaction to some of the panic and frenzy we have been seeing,” said David Levenberg, president of Center Security Services, a retail security consulting firm. “The big difference is that everything is at a much broader scale because it’s all happening nationally.” Some ShopRite stores are adding private security guards to help with crowd control or paying local police departments to direct traffic in crowded parking lots, according to a spokesperson. “Additional security guards have been added to a select number of stores that are seeing increased traffic,” said Jennifer Brogan, a spokesperson for Stop & Shop.

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