Target blamed theft and violence when it closed 9 stores in New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland, but crime is worse at locations it kept open nearby.
Its a recurring story because it made banner headlines in the right wing news sphere that “Stores are so overun with crime in cities they have to shut down.”
The above was stated by a national retail org and target/walgreens executives, which a year later have all came out and either said “oopsy doopsy, we didn’t actually source our numbers and just believed what some guy said” or “we may have heavily over stated the effect of retail shrinkage” when doing earnings calls.
Basically, retail theft is actually down for the last few years across the board, and these corpo fucks lied to blame their failure at running certain stores on completly fabricated crime stats, fueling the culture war and actually changing how people voted to “combat crime.”
That’s why people are pissed and still posting about it.
Its a recurring story because it made banner headlines in the right wing news sphere that “Stores are so overun with crime in cities they have to shut down.”
The above was stated by a national retail org and target/walgreens executives, which a year later have all came out and either said “oopsy doopsy, we didn’t actually source our numbers and just believed what some guy said” or “we may have heavily over stated the effect of retail shrinkage” when doing earnings calls.
Basically, retail theft is actually down for the last few years across the board, and these corpo fucks lied to blame their failure at running certain stores on completly fabricated crime stats, fueling the culture war and actually changing how people voted to “combat crime.”
That’s why people are pissed and still posting about it.