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'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores (finance.yahoo.com)

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

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, about that “most stores shut down door to excessive theft” thing…

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/business/retail-shoplifting-shrink-walgreens/index.html

[–] cozz33@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The article you linked says there’s been a 25.6% increase in retail theft just within a years time. That’s bound to hurt a lot of businesses.

[–] deur@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Keep in mind that is relative to another number.

[–] cozz33@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I found the article to be written in an unnecessarily complicated way. Are you talking about the shrink number? I think most of us couldn’t care less about giant retailers losing profit, it’s the small businesses I’m concerned about.