Target blamed theft and violence for 9 store closures. Crime is higher at locations it kept open nearby - eviltoast
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    11 months ago

    It’s recurring because, in the last couple of years, this false narrative has been propagated by a several large retain chains and repeated by corporate media. Either they each individually, and at virtually the same time, just so happened to decide to push this false narrative about their chain, or they colluded.

    Reuters: US retail lobbyists retract key claim on ‘organized’ retail crime

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      11 months ago

      And you’ve seen this on the .ml (and hexbear) instances for a while because we noticed something fishy was going on long before corporate media finally broke away from the false narrative.