Shoplifters Steal Carts Full of Tide, Walnut Creek Safeway Locks Up Detergent

The front entrance of the Safeway store in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2023. Helen Billings/The Epoch Times

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—The Safeway grocery store at 600 S. Broadway is locking up the Tide laundry detergent to protect it from shoplifters.

Lieutenant Holley Connors of the Walnut Creek police department told The Epoch Times, “Last week, another officer arrested someone for stealing detergent and they admitted that they sell it at the flea market on the weekends.”