The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.

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      1 year ago

      It’s capitalism…

      If they admit they overreached, it will hurt stock prices and their bonuses.

      So they blame crime, knowing a significant amount of the population will go along with it because it’s victim blaming and psychologically that makes people think it can’t ever effect themselves.

      I dont know why else people would take Walmart PR as gospel

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        Some stores are higher than 1.4%, but it’s still in the low end of single digits, not like 15%. Raising prices a couple percent to compensate wouldn’t even be noticed.

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          Does shrink include the cost of security, security measures, vandalism or injured employees? You have this one thing you think describes the whole thing and the reality is you’ve chosen your bad guy and you’re going to confirmation bias yourself there.