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Reminds me of the false narrative that came out a couple of years ago about Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, etc closing numerous locations due to excessive and unprecedented theft from stores when in many cases it was a way to hide poorly performing stores due to mismanagement or bad locations from shareholders.
These stories always break out during economic downturns.
Nobody wants to come to terms with the fact that a MegaMart whose customer base is drying up because of unemployment and falling wages might be failing for a reason other than gangsters from a 90s blacksploitation crime thriller doing train robbery heists in the costume jewelry department.
I haven’t done the homework but this flare up on crime increase sounds like yet another excuse to be oppressive. Remember the egg shortage a little while ago? Didn’t it turn out to just be price fixing?
Anyhow, I’d appreciate some good resources people have, if any, talking about this retail crime panic.
Wonder how often the old “gratuity” definition gets thrown out in these cases: Unlike a tip, automatic gratuity funds are considered restaurant funds and are not specifically designated as the property of the server by the customer.
The News: “Crime at an all time high, as businesses shutter their doors!”
The Crime: $50B/year in wage theft
“Oakland crime” yes, wage theft is a crime. It did occur in Oakland. Pretty straightforward really.
genius headline really, technically true but nobodies going to think wage theft
The crime? Wage theft.
