Stores have been spending hundreds of thousands per year on new armed security because shoplifting is falling? Sure... checks out.
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Replying to @sf_wallace @ChatfieldKate and
In the US, people frequently believe crime is getting worse despite crime dropping dramatically Why wouldn't already paranoid store owners feel the same way? Business people are frequently just straight up wrong about things Or maybe it's the fear of mass shootings?
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Replying to @TArchiving @ChatfieldKate and
Because you don't spend your already thin margins on hunches and feelings.
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Replying to @sf_wallace @ChatfieldKate and
That is already exactly what they do Regularly Partly because they're humans and not flawless rational operators, partly because business culture is built on paranoia, and partly because Or maybe they're just not actually doing it in as big of numbers as you claim
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Replying to @TArchiving @sf_wallace and
Maybe you just notice them now Or maybe they've been told to be more visible Maybe it's because you assumed they must be doing so Maybe it's local Maybe it's local and paranoid
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Replying to @TArchiving @sf_wallace and
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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Replying to @TArchiving @sf_wallace and
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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Replying to @TArchiving @sf_wallace and
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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