We are right in the middle of a tsunami of shoplifting that never seems to end, and as a result major retailers are closing down locations in major cities all over the country.
A few years ago, videos of brazen shoplifters ruthlessly looting retail stores were shocking everyone, but now this sort of thing is so common that very few of us are shocked anymore.
We have come to expect that our retail stores will be regularly looted because this is who we have become as a nation.
For much of the past year or so, executives at big retailers did something unusual: They talked about theft in their stores.
It is being reported that "Revenue loss to theft has been steadily rising since 2016", and "Shrink" is now costing our retailers more than 100 billion dollars a year.
Even in the very best areas of the Big Apple, major retailers are being routinely ransacked, and authorities seem completely powerless to stop the endless crime wave.
The British Retail Consortium - the body representing almost all of the major retail chains, incorporating food and drink, fashion, DIY, health and beauty and more - recently reported that incidents of customer theft more than doubled from 8m to 16.7m in the period between 1 September 2022 and 31 August 2023.
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