A New York City store owner has been blindsided by rampant shoplifting since waves of illegal immigrants flooded the area, and it’s left him to wonder if his business will survive.
“It’s not fair that these people can come into my store and steal willy-nilly and nothing gets done about it,” Chris Sciacco, the owner of Kaiya’s Pallets, which sells clothing, food and other items in Queens, recently told The New York Post.
“It’s affecting the business and affecting our overhead,” he told the outlet about the $3,000-a-month loss hitting the store hard, adding, “I don’t know if we can continue to survive at this rate.”
According to the Post’s report, Sciacco says his business gets targeted by thieves as many as six times each week and, unless something changes, he will be left with no choice but to cancel his lease.