No, I don't think they did. I think they'll find any excuse to close down a business that isn't 'we fucked up and made multiple terrible business decisions'. F

No, I don't think they did. I think they'll find any excuse to close down a business that isn't 'we fucked up and made multiple terrible business decisions'. For example: A local target here in Seattle was closed, citing retail theft. I stopped by there before closure; they had everything locked up and most of the shelves were empty. A grim sight, but the key point of the story was that said Target was also surrounded by other grocery store alternatives which did not lock items up and whose shelves were not empty. All within roughly a block or a block and a half of distance. The empirical observation is that they closed the stores with less retail theft than the ones they kept open.