Now you know why there are no chain supermarkets in inner cities like this.
They get robbed blind by visitors and employees.
I feel sorry for this guy. Perhaps, he will move to a non-criminal section of the country and succeed.
Is there such a place (non-criminal part of the country)?
In a city near where I live, about 30 years ago, the south side of the city had no big super markets. Finally, one opened, they had to hire armed security guards for every hour they were opened and in Illinois that generally means off duty cops and they don't come cheap.
The store was struggling and people were complaining about high prices but they had to cover the costs of those security guards, plural because they always had two on duty, plus they had to cover the cost of losses due to shop lifting and employee theft.
The final straw that made them close was when one of the guards was killed by armed robbers. The owners told the local newspaper that they couldn't stay open because their liability insurance premiums had sky rocketed and they could no longer even find enough security guards to work there.
There's still no larger grocery store in the entire section of that city, one of Mooshele's "food desert areas".