During what I imagine was a pretty big downturn in non-internet shopping, post-covid. Now that they’ve closed a bunch of retail outlets, and gotten the anti-shoplifting legislation they wanted, it’ll be interesting to see what their new narratives are…
Given that wage theft is more than twice as big as every other form of theft combined, and these retail associations were claiming that shoplifting was almost twice the amount of wage theft - that right there, even before it was revealed they had completely made up the numbers, should have made people question their claims.
