At least this article calls out that the stores kept open also are busier, so the higher potential for theft has less impact on profitability.

Nobody closes a profitable location solely over theft. The only closures that shoplifting is driving are ones at stores that were already underperforming. If increasing theft drives a store into the red, that’s a sensible closure, but profitability is the real driver, not theft.

Good. I don’t care if people are stealing from corporations. They’ve stolen enough from us 100x what any single person can.

I think if they just said we don’t make enough money there I would respect them more.

*reported crime