Do something: Vancouvers Gourmet Warehouse warns of epidemic of retail crime – BC [Video]

The operator of a Vancouver cookware business says her store is facing “catastrophic” crime levels, and is blasting the government and justice system which she says have failed to stop it.

The Gourmet Warehouse has been located at East Hastings Street and Clark Drive for more than two decades.

CEO Caren McSherry said the location wasn’t a great area when the business moved in, but that past issues were “nothing to the epidemic proportions we are facing right now.”

She shared one recent security video clip that showed a man walk in, pick up an armful of goods and attempt to casually walk out, the type of incident she says happens multiple times a day.

“On a daily basis we will get five or six random thieves in here,” she said.

“We are talking thousands and thousands of dollars a week walking out my door. I am not alone. It is just insane.”

McSherry said some of the thieves …