Retail Gladiators': Today's Violent Shoplifters

The shopping public can help restore safety by demanding merchants and elected officials treat 'retail gladiators' like the serious public safety and commercial threat they are;

Nadra Enzi ——Bio and Archives--April 3, 2026

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I have a female friend who did retail clerk duty at a national pharmacy chain for over a year after the COVID-19 pandemic, or 'plandemic' as some critics called it.

During her employment she was bear-maced (an extremely painful crime) and routinely threatened. Folks from safer settings must be wondering whether gang members or violent political extremists targeted her store?

No, she encountered America's newest violent traitor category: shoplifters! As I tell folks, it's not the 1980s-or nineties anymore when I started working in conventional security and loss prevention circles.

In that era, most shoplifters went along with store employees or security personnel without........

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