To the editor,
I frequent this store (Mac’s Convenience store on Arthur and Edward Streets) routinely and find the staff very agreeable and welcoming.
I am dismayed to see time and time again that nothing is being done to provide them with the necessary safety.
I have casually spoken with store clerks all over the city and asked what it will take for them to have protections such as glass barriers. What I have seen in response to the rash of robberies is establishment of a video recording system to record people coming in the store.
This is at the store in question.
A hoodie, baseball cap and the correct posture will render this completely and utterly useless.
I wonder if we have now seen "what it will take" for something to be done to protect these honest, hardworking people from direct physical assault, or worse.
Eric Davenport,
Thunder Bay
