The San Francisco Chronicle analyzed city police department data, revealing that Walgreens' claims of shoplifting forcing the company to close five of its stores was unfounded. - CO

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OK. However, there are likely more crime related factors involved than just shoplifting loses, eg employee safety, liability for employee safety, hiring and retention especially for night shifts, customer traffic down due to safety concerns.

Being a rapacious corporation, Walgreens would most likely prefer to keep the stores open if they could safely make a profit.

Do you honestly agree with the nutty squad woman that Walgreens executives were setting around one day discussing how to keep them uppity blacks from getting more uppity, when one of them proposes, "Hey let's close some stores in their neighborhoods", the assembled executives cheer their approval chanting in unison, "Yeah, that'll remind them darkies who is running things".