Stores have been spending hundreds of thousands per year on new armed security because shoplifting is falling? Sure... checks out.
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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Over the last five years, Safeway's profit margin has varied from -0.6% to 1.2%.
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