通貨膨脹似乎讓所有人都深有感觸。
比如在美國紐約市的夜生活中心之一:下東區。該社區是19世紀著名的移民文化中心,到21世紀成為20多歲的年輕人深夜痛飲的好去處。最近,這里卻因為消費者對物價上漲不滿而引發了一場沖突。
今年7月4日的凌晨4點左右,三位顧客打砸了一家法式炸薯條店,造成25000美元損失,并導致一名員工受傷,需要接受縫合治療。
這名員工告訴《紐約郵報》(New York Post),自從被一部平板電腦收銀機擊中頭部之后,她一直在居家休養。
一條兩分鐘時長的視頻在社交媒體上傳播。視頻顯示,三名女子一邊大笑,一邊瘋狂打砸勒德洛街一家深夜營業的法式炸薯條店Bel Fries。
視頻中,一名女子將玻璃杯砸向耐熱有機玻璃,并豎起中指,然后跳上柜臺,朋友拉著她的胳膊試圖將她拽下來,但她卻跳到了另外一側。
她們為什么這樣做?原因是Bel Fries對額外提供的調味汁收費1.75美元。
畢竟,通貨膨脹已經達到近四十年新高。過去12個月,食品、汽油、公用設施、住房等商品的價格上漲了8.6%。蒙茅斯大學(Monmouth University)的一項調查發現,42%的美國人表示很難維持自己的財務狀況,汽油價格和日常賬單令他們感到擔憂。
顧客覺得調味醬收費過高,于是事情一發不可收拾。
“她們沒有必要這樣做,因為我們收費的是額外供應的調味醬”
三名女子進入柜臺和員工操作區后,開始隨手拿起物品扔向視頻拍攝者。
她們打破了有機玻璃罩,將店內搞得一片狼藉,而她們身后的人卻一邊大笑歡呼,一邊拍視頻。
據美國哥倫比亞廣播公司新聞臺(CBS News)報道,三名女子已經被警方逮捕,面臨重罪指控。
店主安娜莉·施洛斯貝格對CBS News表示:“她們肯定是有某些原因,但她們沒有必要這樣做,因為我們收費的是額外供應的調味醬。她們不應該因此做出這種行為?!?/p>
Bel Fries直到7月7日下午才重新開業。
施洛斯貝格稱,成本上漲導致人們難以維持生計,但這種暴力行為造成了25000美元損失,還有人受傷,這一危險經歷讓店員感到震驚。(財富中文網)
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
通貨膨脹似乎讓所有人都深有感觸。
比如在美國紐約市的夜生活中心之一:下東區。該社區是19世紀著名的移民文化中心,到21世紀成為20多歲的年輕人深夜痛飲的好去處。最近,這里卻因為消費者對物價上漲不滿而引發了一場沖突。
今年7月4日的凌晨4點左右,三位顧客打砸了一家法式炸薯條店,造成25000美元損失,并導致一名員工受傷,需要接受縫合治療。
這名員工告訴《紐約郵報》(New York Post),自從被一部平板電腦收銀機擊中頭部之后,她一直在居家休養。
一條兩分鐘時長的視頻在社交媒體上傳播。視頻顯示,三名女子一邊大笑,一邊瘋狂打砸勒德洛街一家深夜營業的法式炸薯條店Bel Fries。
視頻中,一名女子將玻璃杯砸向耐熱有機玻璃,并豎起中指,然后跳上柜臺,朋友拉著她的胳膊試圖將她拽下來,但她卻跳到了另外一側。
她們為什么這樣做?原因是Bel Fries對額外提供的調味汁收費1.75美元。
畢竟,通貨膨脹已經達到近四十年新高。過去12個月,食品、汽油、公用設施、住房等商品的價格上漲了8.6%。蒙茅斯大學(Monmouth University)的一項調查發現,42%的美國人表示很難維持自己的財務狀況,汽油價格和日常賬單令他們感到擔憂。
顧客覺得調味醬收費過高,于是事情一發不可收拾。
“她們沒有必要這樣做,因為我們收費的是額外供應的調味醬”
三名女子進入柜臺和員工操作區后,開始隨手拿起物品扔向視頻拍攝者。
她們打破了有機玻璃罩,將店內搞得一片狼藉,而她們身后的人卻一邊大笑歡呼,一邊拍視頻。
據美國哥倫比亞廣播公司新聞臺(CBS News)報道,三名女子已經被警方逮捕,面臨重罪指控。
店主安娜莉·施洛斯貝格對CBS News表示:“她們肯定是有某些原因,但她們沒有必要這樣做,因為我們收費的是額外供應的調味醬。她們不應該因此做出這種行為?!?/p>
Bel Fries直到7月7日下午才重新開業。
施洛斯貝格稱,成本上漲導致人們難以維持生計,但這種暴力行為造成了25000美元損失,還有人受傷,這一危險經歷讓店員感到震驚。(財富中文網)
譯者:劉進龍
審校:汪皓
It seems like inflation is really getting to people.
Look no further than one of the centers of night life in New York City: the Lower East Side. The neighborhood, known for outgrowing its past as the center of immigrant culture in the 19th century to the center of 20-something late-night carousing in the 21st, just had a brush with consumer outrage over rising prices.
Around 4:00 a.m. on July 4, three customers wrecked a french fry shop, causing $25,000 in damages and physically harming an employee to the extent that staples were required.
The employee told the?New York Post?she has not left her house since she was hit in the head by a tablet cash register.
A two-minute video circulating through social media shows three women wreaking havoc at the late-night french fry shop, Bel Fries, on Ludlow street, smiling and laughing as they did so.
One woman can be seen throwing glass bottles against the plexiglass and throwing up her middle finger before jumping on the counter, as her friend tugs her arm to come down, instead she hops over to the other side.
The cause? Bel Fries was charging $1.75 for extra dipping sauce.
Inflation is, after all, at a four-decade high, with the cost of food, gas, utilities, housing and other goods up 8.6% over the past 12 months. Forty-two percent of Americans say they are struggling to remain where they are financially, citing gas prices and paying everyday bills as concerns, according to a Monmouth University poll.
Here’s how wild things got after hours when the sauce was too expensive.
“It didn’t have to do with us, clearly, because it was over sauce”
All three women, once over the counter and into the employee-only area, began throwing anything they could get their hands on, aiming at the person filming.
The women proceed to break off the plexiglass shield, tear the place apart all while people behind them laugh, cheer and film.
Police arrested the three women, and they are now facing felony charges, according to CBS News.
“There's something going on with them, and it didn't have to do with us, clearly, because it was over sauce,” owner Annalee Schlossberg told CBS News. “That shouldn't call for that behavior.”
Bel Fries did not reopen until the July 7 afternoon.
Costs are rising and people are struggling to make ends meet, but this violent act caused $25,000 in damages, according to Schlossberg, and a traumatic, dangerous experience that left workers in shock.