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> I cannot believe I am going to defend Walmart right now, but that's how poor this article is.

I know how you feel. Its completely absurd to blame a corporation that tries to provide very cheap goods for crimes committed against it.

It isn't like they are leaving bottles of prescription painkillers near the exits with no one to watch them. Or anything else that is clearly negligent.

> What's a solution? Walmart's shoplifting is a symptom of social issues elsewhere: Drug usage, poverty, lacking social safety nets, criminal justice reform, and so on. If you want to decrease shoplifting you have to give people something to lose and that's a bigger challenge than hitting Walmart over the head for having to call the cops too much.

Yeah but that requires work and blaming corporations is in vogue.