I see where Best Buy has admitted that the thefts, looting and shoplifting have hurt them.

Quick fix.

Close the unprofitable stores. Run it STRAIGHT by the financial bottom line. Rob us enough times to hurt us and we're out of here.

Of course that will create deserts for food and goods but that's just part of the game. If the locals don't behave themselves they will just have to do without.

Right now a number of food retailers have either closed outright or pulled out of bad neighborhoods and the repercussions are that there's a lot of bellyaching about food deserts. In the scant few remaining food store the prices have jumped to compensate for thefts and robberies. Too damned bad.

If the people living in those neighborhoods want to clean them up then maybe businesses will return. 

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