it does depend on where though, in places where shoplifting is unpunished or unabated, it really had shut down a ton of chain stores and even local businesses due to the massive thefts, and the police refuse to do anything, despite getting such a healthy budget to begin with.
Red states probably, wage theft is even higher i bet, because of thier lax income laws and business friednly tax free/reduced legislations. people do depend on pharmacies of WG, and probably CVS too, but even those are starting to close down.
In 2012, there were 292,074 robberies of all kinds, including bank robberies, residential robberies, convenience store and gas station robberies, and street robberies. The total value of the property taken in those crimes was $340,850,358. By contrast, the total amount recovered for the victims of wage theft who retained private lawyers or complained to federal or state agencies was at least $933 million in 2012. This is almost three times greater than all the money stolen in robberies that year. Further, the nearly $1 billion successfully reclaimed by workers is only the tip of the wage-theft iceberg, since most victims never sue and never complain to the government.
it does depend on where though, in places where shoplifting is unpunished or unabated, it really had shut down a ton of chain stores and even local businesses due to the massive thefts, and the police refuse to do anything, despite getting such a healthy budget to begin with.
Red states probably, wage theft is even higher i bet, because of thier lax income laws and business friednly tax free/reduced legislations. people do depend on pharmacies of WG, and probably CVS too, but even those are starting to close down.
I don’t think retail theft is as big as retailers claim ( https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html ) , but even if it was it’s still not even close
https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/
If you need help visualizing scale, revisit https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/