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...kiosk merchants of the new Shops By Harvard Yard gave mixed reviews in interviews yesterday of the security they are provided by Harvard Real Estate (HRE) and talked of recent problems with shoplifting...
...have had a problem," said Lucila Calderon, who works at the Discovery Imports kiosk, which sells Guatamalan imports. "I've seen people trying to steal. They carry shopping bags; they open them and they wait until you're with someone else and they try to put thing in the bag. This happens two to three times a week...
...manger of Head Games, a kiosk which sells hair accessories, said the video monitors used by the guards offer only limited protection because the large yellow awnings attached to the kiosks block cameras from seeing customers handling the merchandise...
Claudette King, who runs a kiosk selling Caribbean and African clothing and crafts, also said the camera's sight lines need to be improved. "They should have the cameras so they can see inside the booths," she said. King added that she had "not experienced any problems" with shoplifting in the two months her stand has been in the former Holyoke Center arcade...
...however, I was told that the world "businesswomen" would have to be neutralized. Being a lowly, intimidated comper in my first day on the job, I said nothing, although the change bothered me. After all, the stand sold gender specific in my terminology? I doubt many men frequented the kiosk, and men were certainly not the stand's primary clientele...