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USA: Shoplifting Has Increased 93% Since 2019; 45 % of Shoplifters are Stealing Food (medium.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by theHRguy@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

An increase in the number of known shoplifting incidents would be conflated with increasing surveillance. It would be hard to distinguish observability vs actual increases.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like they would still know about it when doing inventory, no?

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Inventory would measure $ worth of goods missing, but wouldn't ascertain the number of incidents that caused those losses. So the $/incident and incident count figures should be treated as if they have high uncertainty even if the $ figure is accurate.