'We've always tried to be low-priced and fair for the community, but drug use is going up, crime is going up — they're smashing our windows every other week'

Jim Kokos hasn’t slept much this week.

The manager of Kalamata Grocery in Calgary’s Beltline neighbourhood has spent the past two nights sitting in his car outside the family-run shop, keeping watch over the business and its neighbours after the store was broken into twice in the span of a week.

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“I’m spending 24 hours here — working the day and then sleeping over at night when we’re closed to try to prevent a third break-in,” he said. “I don’t really know what else to do.”

The first break-in happened in the early hours of Nov. 4, when someone wearing a mask smashed a storefront window, stole the cash register a

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