>>I thought I heard that it WAS looted.
You did.
“Just before midnight, some in what had been a large and rowdy but mostly well-behaved crowd broke in a convenience store that police accused 18-year-old Michael Brown of robbing minutes before he was fatally shot by an officer, and began looting it, said Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson.”
assuming they feel it is profitable to stay open at all, why would any store in that combat zone keep any significant inventory in the store?
it is impossible to do business with lawless mobs