>Stop punishing Thiefs.
>Theft increases.
>Be surprised
That's California for you.
@disaster2life
The corporations seek profit by... Making it inconvenient to be able to buy from they? Wouldn't they want to reduce the friction between my pocket and theirs as low as possible?
@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.
"This combination of smash-and-grab style theft and _lowered willingness on the part of businesses to prevent crime_ may signal that the shrinkage rate, although still lower than it was in 2000, is _bound to get worse if current trends continue_."
It directly says so that buinsness aren't willing to take retaliatory, leading to preventatory measures instead. The problem is glorified, yes, many treat cali as hell, it isn't, but the problem isn't exactly made up either.