You're viewing a single thread.
If you scale this up, it's how you get food deserts serviced only by dollar stores like family dollar, meaning no fresh produce.
I say this as someone who's had pharmacies near me close due to overwhelming theft.
Don't go overboard, or your community will suffer.
Steal from bad stores to make them leave, buy from good stores to make them stay
Funny you say that, we've had an abandoned Walmart for a while now, nobody is moving in except maybe the crackheads.
Good, they need a place to stay too
I appreciate the (paywalled) link, however I know for a fact that the closed pharmacies are in bad parts of town where theft is in fact rampant.
If you think you can, as a society, encourage stealing from a grocery store and expect them to stay open, more power to you. I hope your community doesn't become a food desert, because that's a part of a downward poverty spiral.