Wow, that’s amazing.
“So what that means specifically for D.C. is that it accounted for 68% more retail crime than you would expect based on the national average." Which means that all of us on average are losing $200 a year. Ugh.
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I live near a Wegmans grocery store. Every week there is a rundown online of people arrested for attempted theft. Usually middle aged women. Just the other day it was a woman in her 40’s trying to steal $265 in groceries. She ran, the police caught her and she had drug paraphernalia on her person.
Wegmans takes theft extremely seriously.
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But is the amount lost to theft (which is included in and makes up much of “retail shrink”, the overall loss of goods to retailers) that much different from before?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/organized-retail-crime-and-theft-not-increasing-much-nrf-study-finds.html says that “Retail shrink climbed in absolute dollars, but when reported as a percentage of sales as is commonly done, average annual shrink increased to 1.57%, up from 1.44% in 2021. The share is largely in line with past years. Average annual shrink was 1.62% of sales before the pandemic in 2019, though it was as low as 1.33% in 2017, according to previous surveys.”
However, if more goods are now sold by delivery, actual stores may be getting less sales volume, so the amount lost to theft may be a greater percentage of in-store sales than before.
Might depend upon where you live rather than which store. In some cities, police will not respond to shoplifting calls.
They certainly don’t in Portland where I live. Muggings either.
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