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Walmart and Kroger are not unrelated to the problems in the aisles: in February 2022, the two retailers were atCenter for a major reminder For packaged salads that had been linked to the death of three different people. Last month, Walmart and Kroger both announced that they shouldLimit the baby formula Purchases based on a massive shortage in progress. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has issued a major warning that has an impact on Walmart and Kroger buyers. Read the rest for the last alert.

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Walmart and Kroger were the site of a number of criminal incidents. In the past few weeks therewas a fatal shot in a Walmart in North Carolina, andA major flight of almost $ 2,000 in a Walmart in Louisiana. In Kroger, a security guardTry to stop thieves In a Tennessee store was dragged by a vehicle, and a Kroger employee in another Tennessee store was arrestedAfter shooting At a customer in the parking lot last month.

In 2016, police from the United States complained ofcrime concentration In Walmart stores, Bloomberg reported. "It's ridiculous - we are talking about the largest retailer in the world. I may have half of my team there for hours,"Robert Rohloff, a 34 -year -old police veteran who worked in Tulsa, Oklahoma told the media. Last year,Rodney McMullen, Said Kroger Managing DirectorHeavy organized crime In his business stores, he was responsible for increasing food prices.

According to FBI data, there was an increase inTrend of active shooter incidents taking place in grocery stores in recent years, like that of the tragicMay 14th shooting In a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, according to FBI data. The agency indicated that there had been a 100% increase in active shooting incidents since 2016, with 40 shots that occurred during the year 2020. Of the 40 incidents, 24 occurred in places of business, such as grocery stores. Between 2000 and 2017, the number of shootings in grocery stores was on average less than one per year, but according to the FBI, there were two of these shots in 2018 then six in 2020.

"Four shooters were current employees (a shooter was the owner of the company), and a shooter was a former employee," said the FBI in his report. Active shots are "Certainly a problem that grocery stores recognize, "Alex Balian, a retail consultant and former owner of grocery store with decades of experience in the industry, saidThe Washington Post. "This obviously does not happen every week, but they have definitely increased."

Looking closely by the places of commerce, the officials note that two national companies which seem to be a common target: Walmart and Kroger. One of the largest grocery shots in recent years has taken place in 2019, when a shooteropened fire on start -up buyers In a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring 23. The same year, a former "unhappy"Walmart Worker Shot In the people of a Southaven store, Mississippi, killing two.

In 2021, there were two mass shots in grocery stores belonging to Kroger, according toThe Washington Post.One occurred in a Kroger in a suburb of Memphis, where a person was killed and more than a dozenwere seriously injured. theOthers have taken place In Boulder, Colorado, in a King Soopers Outlet - which belongs to Kroger - and 10 people were killed.

"Nothing can prepare you for this kind of situation,"Tim Massa, a vice-president director of Kroger, said in a summer of 2021 on violence at work organized by a group of the food industry, byThe Washington Post. "So many feelings reveal yourself - you are afraid, you are angry, you feel the pain and above all, just helplessness."AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Despite the continuous increase in active shooting incidents at Walmart and Kroger, the two retailers have taken measures against the problem in the past. According to CNBC, the two companiestaken a public position Against firearms in 2019, asking buyers not to open weapons openly in any of their stores. Kroger and Walmart said that even in states where "open transport" laws allow them, customers should not bring firearms in their stores unless agents of the law application.

"Kroger respects respectfully that customers no longer openly carry firearms in our stores, other than authorized agents of the application of laws", "Jessica Adelman, Said the vice-president of Kroger business affairs in a statement sent by email to CNBC at the time. "We also join those who encourage our elected leaders to adopt laws which will strengthen the checks of the history and withdraw the weapons of those who have been found to present a risk of violence."

Walmart also prohibited the sale of ammunition which can be used in military-style assault rifles that year, while Kroger had completely left and thenThe spotlights blend, "Doug McMillon, Said the managing director of Walmart, in the press release at the time, byThe New York Times. "We must not allow this to happen. Congress and administration should act."

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