PHARMACEUTICAL ITEMS are kept locked in a glass cabinet at a Gristedes supermarket, Jan. 31. Increasingly, retailers are locking up more products or increasing the number of security guards at their stores to curtail theft. / BEBETO MATTHEWS / ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) – When the pandemic threat eased, Maureen Holohan was eager to scale back her online shopping and return to physical stores so she could more easily compare prices and scour ingredients on beauty and health care products for herself and her three children. But that experience was short lived. In the past…