RAM is the new gold – why Costco is pulling memory from display PCs to halt a shoplifting surge

• Costco has removed RAM sticks from display PCs on shelves
• This has reportedly happened after incidents of theft
• In recent times, an office was broken into just to steal the DDR5 RAM, and online buyers of memory are facing scams, too

If you needed another sign that the RAM crisis continues to get worse – yes, yet another sign – then here it is: memory sticks are starting to become a target for thieves.

VideoCardz picked up on what seems to be a growing trend, with the latest development being that Costco in the US has started removing the RAM modules from its prebuilt PCs on the shelves (and keeping the memory in the back of the store instead). In one reported case, this was after an incident where a person was apprehended after removing memory from a display PC.

Another Redditor posted photographic evidence of a ...