• thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    In 2023, the National Retail Federation, a trade group that supports the bill and whose warnings are cited in its text, retracted a report claiming organized retail crime was responsible for 50 percent of the nearly $100 billion worth of merchandise that went missing in 2021. The true number was found to be closer to 5 percent of that sum.

    5% of 100 billion is who gives a fuck, I didn’t see anything

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      2 days ago

      Whaaaat businesses lied so they could outsource their problems to be solved with public funds?!

      …Yeah, that tracks.