https://finance.yahoo.com/news/target-closes-9-stores-in-response-to-retail-theft-adds-locked-cases-at-some-stores-190623263.html Stores are closing down due to increasing theft. What is happening in this country?
Solution is simple, cut thieves hand if they chose to do it again, cut another one. Punishment must be big. Only justifiable theft is when one needs to eat or feed family (food), but for that we have program EBT.
Desperate times call for desperate measures
My god people are so incredibly stupid. You cut off a hand and there goes all the possible labor jobs out the window for that individual. That person will steal again since they can't get a job. How the hell do you work for Apple? 😂
Cuz more business owners don't give the stick treatment to thieves, like the Sikhs did.
Mind sharing it?
Due to Senate bill 553
Target will fire any non-security worker who confronts a suspected shoplifter. But you think it's a proposed bill in California doing that?
It costs more to investigate and process the theft and catch the thieves than to just recover the lost value from insurance 🤷🏻♂️ I think even thieves have figured it out and don't steal more than an amount to stay below the limits cops will care.
Many stores, including Target, monitor shoplifters until they hit the minimum for felony charges. It doesn't have to be all in one trip, they can add it up over months or years, across locations. It's not economically worth it to prosecute misdemeanors.
Amazon hires people. Amazon destroys their self-esteem and makes them unemployable. They are forced to steal to survive. Stores have to close due to theft while, forcing people to shop at Amazon. Fired store employees have to get a job at Amazon. Their self-esteem is destroyed, making them unemployable, making them steal from stores. Store closures cause more people to buy and work at Amazon. Rinse and repeat. It's the Amazon circle or life.
You know who to thank
Being the devil's advocate. While I don't agree with stealing it is also the only way to tip the scale a little when some people are barely able to survive anymore (Minimum wage has moved in years and climbing the social ladder is now almost impossible) while in the meantime the rich gets richer.. It's a much more complex issue than just Democrat or Republican...
Minimum wage in Seattle is $18.69. Not convinced the minimum wage explanation holds. Could it be that the high min wage is attracting lowlives from all over who work a little bit, but then raid the stores to get by?
If there’s no punishment for a crime, many would chose to do. When you can walk away with $900 value of items and nothing would happen to you. We are technically encouraging theft and saying “go ahead, take it, nothing will happen to you…” Try that in a small town.
Only 9 stores? Idgaf
Enforcement is racist
According to certain media outlets the outrage should be directed at the oppressor in this case for creating an oppressive environment for the underprivileged
It’s terrible to be a thief in America. All the systemic oppression that made you a criminal and a bum? What a horrible existence.
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From the article “The stores set to close include one in Harlem, N.Y; two in Seattle, Wash.; three near San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.; and three in Portland, Ore.” Who runs those cities? There’s your answer
Helps to understand the locations, too. The two in Seattle are both “urban format” Targets in areas with lots of young people.