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Bay Area innovator stops shoplifting, gives shoppers power to open padlocked shelves
(www.nbcbayarea.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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lol ok
you think they are just locking stuff up for fun?
Why are they only reporting numbers from the pandemic? This is like my local paper talking about how "traffic deaths have shot up since 2020" while omitting the fact that nobody was driving around in 2020. You're telling me shoplifting is up when compared to a time where most people weren't going out in public, let alone shopping at retail stores?
Wow, those percentages are large numbers. Except a 50% increase starting at .01 crimes a day ends up being only .015 crimes a day. So maybe some additional context can be helpful to know if the problem is rampant or just a tiny problem in some cities becoming a slightly bigger tiny problem.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/business/crime-spree-retailers-are-actually-overstating-the-extent-of-theft-report-says/index.html
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https://counciloncj.org/is-shoplifting-up-or-down/
And yet the comment I replied to was "They fixed a problem that wasn’t real".
Incredibly scientific and thoroughly sourced lol.
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