@princeofhyrule ooopss- seems someone hasn't looked up that the store closures and market lockdowns have been completely fueled by the management of profit seeking corporations, not by any real crime statistic
@princeofhyrule they would want to, they would also want to explain to their stakeholders why it is that they are loosing revenue and not say that people are moving to online shopping and that the industry overexpanded and some stores became unprofitable.
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@princeofhyrule https://www.brookings.edu/articles/retail-theft-in-us-cities-separating-fact-from-fiction/https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/shoplifting-retail-crime-stores/index.html CNN and Brookings saying its made up.
https://fee.org/articles/is-the-shoplifting-epidemic-fake-bad-news-yes-and-no/ here is even the Foundation of Economic Education (a right wing “free market”) article saying that and then in the last paragraph worrying on theoretical.
@princeofhyrule here me out, all the articles specifically say this isn't a Cali only problem, and only the FEE article speculates "if trends continue" because trends say that this kind of stuff doesn't continue, and that it is already dropping off, the Brookings institute article also talks about this being an overreaction, would you accept that it might be one? yeah there was an uptick, companies over responded, there was no decrease in "thieves" being punished.