Grocery stores are trying to curb thefts of a hot commodity this summer: ice cream! One solution is something called the pint lock, which makes it almost impossible to open the ice cream container.

Shoplifters are running so wild in the Big Apple that pints of high-end ice cream now have special locked lids to thwart cold-hearted crooks. The Fairway supermarket on the Upper West Side is guarding ...

And even cooking oil has alarms. I had to go to Walmart.They’ve put locks on all of the cooking oil.This country is fucking doomed.If you support capitalism at this ...

Such is the sorry state of San Francisco, where stores have resorted to keeping coffee, mustard, syrup, lotion, and other basic grocery items under lock and key. One Walgreens in San Francisco, which ...

Summer is ice cream weather - right? - for consumers but also for shoplifters. NPR's Stacey Vanek Smith explains. STACEY VANEK SMITH, BYLINE: It is a brutal summer day in New York City - 85 degrees ...