You would need to be living under a rock if you are unfamiliar with videos showing people with guns robbing stores, groups of brazen shoplifters entering supermarkets and high end retail outlets exiting with designer bags, Apple computers, jewelry, robbing people in the streets, stealing their cars, etc.
American retailers continue to be plagued by the relatively new phenomenon of brazen, organized retail thefts, often characterized as “smash and grabs” and carried out by “flash mobs.” This crime wave has already caused the Walgreens drug chain to close down a number of its stores in San Francisco—see “COVID CRIME WAVE SPIKES, DRUG STORES...