CVS in D.C. Concealing Toilet Paper in Response to Increasing Theft

Due to massive crime, theft, and shrink issues, a Washington, D.C. CVS pharmacy has had to replace shelves of toilet paper with framed photos of the items for customers to individually request before heading to the checkout line.

Photos of the framed store-shelf items were shared on Instagram by the Washingtonian Problems account and have been mocked as a reality of living under the Democrat leadership of Mayor Muriel Bowser.

One poster noted that residents of red states do not have these Democrat-world “problems.”

“We don’t have these problems in Florida,” Harlan Hill wrote in the photo replies. “Sincerely, a former D.C. resident.”

The framed photos of the toilet paper were reportedly necessary to protect the item from being stolen by Bowser’s H street homeless, who would come into the store and take the item without paying, according to WTOP News.

It is not just the homeless who are acting unlawfully under the massive inflation and crime issues throughout the U.S. under President Joe Biden. D.C. robberies are up 68% in 2023, according to crime data.

Bowser, who had “Defund the Police” painted on Washington, D.C., in the renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza, has been forced to increase funding in the 2023 budget for the Metropolitan Police Department.

Metro PD has already reported more than 3,000 robberies in 2023, up from 1,791 at the same time last year, the New York Post reported.

Other Democrat-controlled cities are reporting similar problems with crime in their once-BLM riot-ravaged areas. New York City has reported a 64% increase in retail theft in the past four years, and Los Angeles has seen a 61% surge in the same time, according to Council on Criminal Justice data reported by the Post.

Companies are bearing the brunt of the financial impact. A U.S. retail trade group reported that chains lost $112 billion in organized theft mobs in New York, San Francisco, L.A., and Houston last year, up from $93.9 billion in 2021, according to the Post, citing the National Retail Federation.