A Washington DC CVS store will close its doors after a group of sticky-fingered teens routinely ransacked the store, leaving the shelves bare.
According to Fox affiliate, WTTG-TV, the pharmacy storefront in Washington D.C’s Columbia Heights neighborhood is closing on Feb. 29.
The closing comes months after videos surfaced in Oct. 2023 of row after row of empty shelves at the CVS store after a group of shoplifting teens ransacked the store.
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The rampant theft has gotten so bad at the CVS location that customers have begun shopping at other locations for necessities.
“It makes me not want to shop there to be honest. I just go in there and get my prescription and then when I need other things, I go elsewhere because there’s nothing there to get,” Ilana Miller, a CVS customer, told WTTG-TV.
According to staff who work there, 45 or more kids regularly go into the store to steal chips and drinks before school, after school, and late at night.