The food situation this week in NYC . . . got a key for the ice cream freezer? - silive.com

Here is where we are now in food: Shoplifting is so bad that CVS now locks up ice cream and other items on Staten Island. (Staten Island Advance/Pamela Silvestri)Silvestri

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Call it post-traumatic stress disorder or deja vu. But I’m beginning to feel a lot like I did in 2020 watching others hoard toilet paper with news of the port strike last week — and, well, hoarding food just for the sake of hoarding.

And in other matters, ice cream is trending in the shoplifting world. As a result, CVS started locking up the ice cream. Now, the Staten Islanders must patiently queue up for already visibly overworked CVS associates to unlock deodorant, toothpaste, laxatives -- plus Ben ‘n’ Jerry’s.

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