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A Boring Dystopia
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The article is pure speculation.
It might also be assigning a pet parrot to every store. Doesn't mean that it's true.
I am not denying that the author could possibly be proven correct at a later date, but that date is not now because they didn't cite any evidence in their article. As it stands, this is an opinion piece. If you read it as fact (i.e. "it's all lies"), then you're consuming it as propaganda.
Did you read the article?
Of course.
The data they are talking about is interesting and related, and while it does have correlation, it's missing causation. There could be unreported theft, they might be closing stores with lower theft to move traffic to other stores (with higher theft) for other reasons, etc.
I'm not taking Target's side, but I still wouldn't say this is immediately conclusive.
Really getting sick of seeing people circle jerk over headlines from opinion pieces. Wasn't this supposed to be better than reddit?