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November 5, 2010
Sign of the times! Trader Joe’s admits its crime problem
The Brooklyn Paper
by Stephen Brown
Forest City Ratner's Fort Greene malls have some new competition.
Managers of the Trader Joe’s on Court Street have confessed — albeit in its own cheeky way — that the store is a magnet for criminals.
A new sign at the entrance to the popular supermarket at Atlantic Avenue offers shoppers this friendly reminder:
“We know it’s hard to focus with so many amazing values in the store, but please keep a close eye on your belongings!”
The tone of the sign seems innocent enough, but the goings-on at the grocery store have been anything but.
Pickpockets have stalked the quirky grocery store with regularity since it opened in 2008, making it one of the usual suspects in our weekly crime blotter, alongside the Planet Fitness on Duffield Street (“Planet pilfer”!), the Macy’s on the Fulton Mall (“Menace at Macy’s”!) and the Bruce Ratner-owned Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center malls near the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues (“More malling”!).
Posted by eric at November 5, 2010 10:35 AM