NYC grocery stores consider locking up food due to theftNEW YORK - Like drug stores locking up toothpaste, your local grocery store might have to start locking up meats and vegetables due to rampant shoplifting."People have no fear of coming to your store and stealing," Nelson Eusebio of the National Supermarket Association.Eusebio says that when stores call about shoplifting, police do not respond quickly and the thief can be gone for hours before officers arrive.He says the industry is moving towards locking up food."You're not going to be able to smell the food, read the ingredients, look at a recipe, that's going to disappear if we don't do something now," Eusebio says."