They’ve gone up. And it’s easy to see why. We have a minimum wage that hasn’t been increased in decades and the current model of corporate efficiency is understaffing and union busting.
A huge portion of the population is cash strapped with the only job opportunities being poverty wages.
And yet theft rates are the same as they have pretty much always been.
They’ve gone up. And it’s easy to see why. We have a minimum wage that hasn’t been increased in decades and the current model of corporate efficiency is understaffing and union busting.
A huge portion of the population is cash strapped with the only job opportunities being poverty wages.
Desperate people commit crimes.
https://youtu.be/HKtsdZs9LJo?si=Wi5_jyLZZWzbGpuo
They have not actually. They have gone up in a few places but are roughly the same overall.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/myth-vs-reality-trends-retail-theft
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html