An Upper East Side Thrift Shop Started Posting Its Shoplifters to Instagram. What Happened …

Over the past couple days, a familiar Upper East Side thrift store took an unusual approach to a problem its owner says has dogged both of his shops since the day the first one opened. In the span of two days, Upper East Side Thrift Shop put up two separate Instagram posts calling out shoplifters caught on camera. What the store did not expect was how fast those posts would come back around. Soon after the posts went up, relatives of both people surfaced. In one case, the aunt of an alleged shoplifter reached out to the store. In the other, a woman’s son got in touch to say the person in the photo was his mother, and that he would come in and pay for what she had taken. “You’re not going to believe it. We posted two of them in two days, and both of them we already found,” owner George Khodzhayev told East Side Feed. Khodzhayev says the store is sitting on a mountain of similar footage, hundreds of photos and videos of people walking out without paying, but that it only goes public when there is no doubt about what happened. “We don’t post pictures unless
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