Colina Del Sol grocery store restricts underage customers NBC 7 San Diego [Video]

A new rule says no unaccompanied children at a Grocery Outlet Bargain Market in San Diego’s Colina Del Sol neighborhood.

The store manager told NBC 7 the grocery store on 54th Street is practically overrun with shoplifting and disruptive social media stunts.

Some students that buy snacks there after school are protesting the new restrictions.

Other retailers in the area say the problem is beyond just children.

The Grocery Outlet Bargain Market boasts low food prices, which may be the very attraction to the school kids.

“Grab and run. I’ve seen them chase them down the street two or three blocks,“ shopper Karen Palmer said.

Palmer says she shops at the store on 54th Street five times week and that the stealing cuts into her bottom line.

“It’s not right. It only makes our prices higher, so everything is going up,” Palmer said.

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