Bay Area innovator stops shoplifting, gives shoppers power to open padlocked shelves::New technology coming to stores could stop theft and ease customer access.
Bay Area innovator stops shoplifting, gives shoppers power to open padlocked shelves::New technology coming to stores could stop theft and ease customer access.
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?
Did you forget to source that quote, or did somebody shoplift the link out of your post?
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.
Except I wasn’t pretending to quote somebody. Not only is your quote unsourced, it’s also not a quote… It’s a paraphrase.
First, you left out the subtitle for the report, which also summarizes it:
The fact that New York City was an outlier that affected the rest of the results is important. Especially when the results are so varied:
You shouldn’t have assumed anything based on this, but don’t take my word for it, I’ll quote the report:
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