This story speaks for itself.
From Will Kessler’s article at dailycaller.com:
A California hardware store lost $700,000 from shoplifting in 2022 as thefts continue to burden the area, according to The Mercury News.
Dale Hardware, located in Fremont, California, is losing $1,800 a day to shoplifting due to both individual and organized theft, according to The Mercury News. The increase in thefts follows relaxed attitudes from local prosecutors and law enforcement towards lower-level crimes like small-dollar shoplifting, following a national trend under liberal defense attorneys who have received large amounts of funding from megadonor George Soros.
“How do we run a small business with $1,800 of loss every day?” Dale Hardware owner Kyle Smith said, according to The Mercury News. “It ends up costing the consumer more money because we can’t survive without raising prices.”
Smith said that Dale Hardware typically only calls the police when the amount stolen is over $10,000 because shoplifters are not likely to be held accountable in cases of lower-cost thefts, according to The Mercury News.
Is this insane? Yes it is.
Is this unbelievably unfair to Kyle Smith, or any other owner of a small – or, for that matter, big – business? Yes it is.
Is this the new normal in California? Yes it is.
Is this the death of California? Yes it is.
Is this what Gavin Newsom, the former Mayor of San Francisco and current Governor of California, is actually selling as a potential presidential candidate? Yes it is.
That pretty much says it all. End of blog (and end of California, and end of our country if voters ever put this joke in the oval office).
