People walk in fill up a cart and walk away without paying ?
The Chicago area, and Illinois in general, are pretty lax about enforcing “petty” crimes like shoplifting. Add to that, pilferage by employees, and it soon becomes no longer economically feasible to maintain a presence. So another box store abandons the market, leaving what might be opportunity for small niche retailers to jump in, except the shoplifters come after them too, and they are soon out of business.
Prosperity falls to a very low level for everybody.
they try to do that in the Birmingham area. Witnessed it 2 times in the last month. They got caught. Hint: if the walmart has gates at the entrance, its got a lot of shoplifting.
In CA. you can walk out with $1000.00 worth of goods and NOTHING will happen to you, this has caused retailers to LOCK UP every damn thing in the store!! It has become a pain in the ass to shop anymore!! Best way to shop for ANYTHING is on line!!