[haram_masala]

Target has started closing their San Francisco stores at 6pm as a response to the increase in theft. Do you really think that this wasn't a data-driven decision, and that Target as a whole just got swept up in some kind of racist moral panic?

[JTbane]

IMO it doesn't matter if your theft is a felony or misdemeanor, police should still patrol and try to pursue it. Cops, however, claim they are overworked and understaffed to do this.

This is the "broken windows" theory- if you let minor crimes like shoplifting go unpunished in a city, more people will do it.

[Drunk_Engineer]

Target has been reducing hours of employees throughout the country.

[QuarterReptile]

This may be true, but that is distinct from closing before dark (which I haven't seen in any other place.)

[jessaustin]

A relatively-new (built in the last two years) Taco Bell near me has a sign up saying that they are only open 4PM-10PM, drive-thru only. Something weird is going on with employment. It's as if some of these big firms will suffer some huge penalty the moment their average wages go over a certain threshold.

[shadowgovt]

The drive-thru only restriction is almost certainly because of COVID.

... But the hours restriction is interesting. I've noticed weird hours at the Taco Bell near my place, and this is probably purely anecdotal, but it does make me sort of wonder if there's something unique to Taco Bell making it hard for them to flesh out their hours.