Shrink is tax deductible.
Maybe if that was ended Big Retail would push prosecutors to get medieval on the heinies of thieves...
Can they get Credits for reparations?
And get a load of this...
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/tax-line-used-inventory-shrinkage-77292.html
“...The Internal Revenue Service isn’t necessarily concerned with tracking the effects of shrinkage on your bottom line; its main concern is determining your taxable income. As a result, it doesn’t recognize shrinkage as a specific expense with its own line. Instead, it’s reported on tax forms as a miscellaneous or “other” expense under the cost of goods sold section...”
Whoakaaaay....