Reminds me of the false narrative that came out a couple of years ago about Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, etc closing numerous locations due to excessive and unprecedented theft from stores when in many cases it was a way to hide poorly performing stores due to mismanagement or bad locations from shareholders.
106These stories always break out during economic downturns.
Nobody wants to come to terms with the fact that a MegaMart whose customer base is drying up because of unemployment and falling wages might be failing for a reason other than gangsters from a 90s blacksploitation crime thriller doing train robbery heists in the costume jewelry department.
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The crime? Wage theft.
75The criminals? The owners.
22The owing class
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Weird how being held accountable for crimes can lead to a business closure.
61The News: "Crime at an all time high, as businesses shutter their doors!"
The Crime: $50B/year in wage theft
57I haven't done the homework but this flare up on crime increase sounds like yet another excuse to be oppressive. Remember the egg shortage a little while ago? Didn't it turn out to just be price fixing?
Anyhow, I'd appreciate some good resources people have, if any, talking about this retail crime panic.
21Yeah here in this instance the crime is the owners of the business stealing from their employees and being held accountable for it and closing down for that reason.
Not crimes against them, crimes they committed.
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"Oakland crime" yes, wage theft is a crime. It did occur in Oakland. Pretty straightforward really.
20genius headline really, technically true but nobodies going to think wage theft
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Wonder how often the old “gratuity” definition gets thrown out in these cases: Unlike a tip, automatic gratuity funds are considered restaurant funds and are not specifically designated as the property of the server by the customer.
6This reminds me of a year or so ago when conservatives kept claiming "Trans sexual assaults in bathrooms were up" and it turned out that Trans people were the victims and not the perpetrators.
This is truly the most evil way of framing a headline. To make the victim the perpetrator and the perpetrator the victim.
2So yea crime, caused BY the business
2I live in Oakland, the sharp rise in crime over the past 2 years is very real. Doesn’t excuse their lawsuit but huge numbers of businesses are being regularly broken into resulting in many closures.
-13Oakland has a crime problem, but Calavera is bad management pointing fingers.
11We've deprived these people of resources, but I can't figure out why they keep stealing stuff. We probably need more police, more for-profit prisons, and more laws and regulations. That's always fixed it in the past.
2That is also true in Portland and other cities. Methed out morons (or someone) break windows on restaurants to steal $200 or even bottles of liquor, and it costs the business $5k-10k to fix it. One establishment where I am now is closing after being broken into 7 times in the past year.
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