I don’t think this naturally follows from the article. If I’m reading it correctly, they’ve only retracted their statements about the amount of missing merchan

I don’t think this naturally follows from the article. If I’m reading it correctly, they’ve only retracted their statements about the amount of missing merchandise attributable to organized crime. This article does not seem to dispute the volume of missing merchandise or the volume of retail theft, only the amount of that attributable to organized crime.