The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
Considering most stores shut down due to excessive theft (and inaction of authorities), would this be any different than just opening another food bank?
Yeah, about that “most stores shut down door to excessive theft” thing…
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html
The article you linked says there’s been a 25.6% increase in retail theft just within a years time. That’s bound to hurt a lot of businesses.
Keep in mind that is relative to another number.
I found the article to be written in an unnecessarily complicated way. Are you talking about the shrink number? I think most of us couldn’t care less about giant retailers losing profit, it’s the small businesses I’m concerned about.
Hopefully being a community thing and not a corporate thing will help. I think people will be less likely to steal, and more likely to rat someone out for stealing.
Before 1916 theft wasn’t an issue at the grocery, because the customer was not expected to fetch their own items.
You told the person what you needed and they went and got it for you.
If theft was the real reason, stores could simply return to this style of operation.
