Portland, Oregon
- Portland’s Pearl District REI to close due to record crime, safety concerns | KATU
- All Walmart stores in Portland to permanently close (uppermichiganssource.com)
- Cracker Barrel Is Latest Company To Flee Portland, Oregon As Crime Continues To Rise – OutKick
- Crime, homelessness test Portland, Ore.’s progressive strain – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
- Coava Coffee announces Downtown closure after rampant theft, violence, safety concerns | KATU
- Store at Washington Square plans to close due to chronic theft | kgw.com
- Nike Community Store in Portland closed after thefts | kgw.com
- Safeway adds separate shopping section for high-theft items | kgw.com
- We watched shoplifters steal from three stores. Nobody stopped it | kgw.com
- Rising thefts target Oregon liquor stores | kgw.com
San Francisco
- Whole Foods closes San Francisco flagship store after one year, citing worker safety | CNN Business
- Walgreens closing 5 San Francisco stores due to ‘organized retail crime’ (sfgate.com)
- Target, Walgreens make drastic changes due to increase in San Francisco thefts – ABC7 San Francisco (abc7news.com)
Elsewhere
- Walmart closing an Everett store that locals say was plagued by theft | The Seattle Times
- Walmart CEO: Stores could close with uptick in shoplifting (thehill.com)
- Major retail brands threaten to close stores over rampant retail theft (ktvu.com)
- The US stores that closed their doors due to rampant theft | Daily Mail Online
- Another store is closing at Northlake Mall amid financial and safety struggles (yahoo.com)
- Local economies suffer as high crime drives businesses out of big cities | KATV
- San Francisco shoplifting: Thieves caught on camera stuffing stolen goods in bags at Walgreens | Fox News
- Small Retailers Report Increases in Retail Theft, Raise Prices to Offset Losses | U.S. Chamber of Commerce (uschamber.com)
- A CVS in New York City is turning to specially trained dogs to combat rampant shoplifting | Business Insider India
- Starbucks is set to close these 16 U.S. stores over safety concerns (cnbc.com)
An increase in shoplifting crime is blamed on
- Labor shortages
- Mask mandates
- Covid
- Inflation
- The economy
- Related to drug crime and stolen vehicle crime
- Climate change
- Homelessness
- George Soros (said to have funded DA’s that are soft on crime)
- Mental health
- Progressive policies
An increase in shoplifting and property vandalism are reportedly spreading to other countries.
Recent crime data itself is flawed due to a change in reporting crimes in 2021.
Some media stories assert this is all over blown – Stores say shoplifting is a national crisis. The numbers don’t back it up | CNN Business and After San Francisco shoplifting video goes viral, officials argue thefts aren’t rampant (nbcnews.com)
