Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Just in time for election season organized retail crime is now a 36% problem for inventory losses, not 50%
The main lobbying group for U.S. retailers retracted its claim that “organized retail crime” accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021 after finding that incorrect data was used for its analysis. ...
Retail executives and law enforcement officials use the term organized retail crime to describe coordinated groups of thieves who shoplift or steal from retailers’ warehouses and trucks, reselling stolen merchandise on the black market.
More.
Wouldn't want to offend the black market now would we?
Saturday, October 15, 2022
You can't get this kind of information just anywhere, and you know why
Wawa shuttering two Philadelphia stores amid city's retail crime surge:
Retail theft is up more than 50% in Philadelphia
Saturday, September 17, 2022
This is how America ends
One place at a time.
America and its free market capitalism depends on rules, a shared commitment to them and to their enforcement:
Sound money, not fiat money;
truth, not "my truth";
law and order, not one law for me and another for thee.
When you can't trust anybody anymore, it is over. People vote with their feet, as do corporations.
Crime, Homelessness, Taxes: Hollywood Big Shots Fleeing LA...
As Violent Crime in LA Rises, Demand for Private Security Among Wealthy Soars...
UPDATE: In Atlanta's Buckhead Neighborhood, Rising Crime Fuels Move to Secede...
AMAZON relocating workers from Seattle office due to crime...
DC WAWA closes amid ongoing shoplifting, violence...
WALGREENS closing more stores in San Fran due to organized theft...
Violence rises as employees fight back against shoplifters, thieves...
Chicago's Wealthy Neighborhoods Hire Private Police as Crime Rises...
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Maybe the shoplifting would decrease if we started chopping off their hands
Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
- "It's out of control — it is just out of control," Lisa LaBruno, SVP
of operations and innovation at the Retail Industry Leaders
Association, tells Axios. ...
- “They come in every day, sometimes twice a day, with laundry bags and just load up on stuff,” the Post quoted a store employee saying. ...
- District attorneys in cities like Chicago and New York are considering harsher measures against shoplifters. ...
- Teams of "boosters" will throng a store with laundry bags, grabbing what they can and assaulting workers who confront them — sometimes fatally.