Stores have been spending hundreds of thousands per year on new armed security because shoplifting is falling? Sure... checks out.
Business owners are regularly extra risk averse and so often overreact You think the bosses that are worried that if people see a cashier sitting will stop coming to the store are making reasonable, informed choices?
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Beyond that, you may be conflating the very temporary security a business might have used during protests as them "hiring security" for the longer term task of dealing with shoplifting OR conflated the businesses with not-thin margins getting security with thin margin businesses
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Beefy margins allow business owners to indulge their own paranoia and whims, both because it bears less consequences then and because profitable businesspeople often like to think they have good "instincts" and are Very Correct About Things
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