Good. I don’t care if people are stealing from corporations. They’ve stolen enough from us 100x what any single person can.
Yes, steal away! Just make sure you always return those shopping carts though!
Gotta give the next group a place to put their stuff too.
At least this article calls out that the stores kept open also are busier, so the higher potential for theft has less impact on profitability.
Nobody closes a profitable location solely over theft. The only closures that shoplifting is driving are ones at stores that were already underperforming. If increasing theft drives a store into the red, that’s a sensible closure, but profitability is the real driver, not theft.
I think if they just said we don’t make enough money there I would respect them more.
*reported crime
I Books Could Kill did a deep dive on the Organized Retail Crime myth. It really shows how little fact checking goes into stories propagated by capital.
It’s on their Patreon or available free here: https://kemono.su/patreon/user/82569578/post/91601254
