The Michael Barry show with prime out of control in America's big cities. Look at what

happened in Chicago, New York, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis. A story coming out

of I believe it's business insider that says that Target is said, let me see. You know what?

I read the headline. Target expects to take a $500 million hit this year due to missing inventory.

Shoplifting and organized crime largely to blame. $500 million. The CEO Brian Cornell says it's an

urgent issue, not just for Target, but across the entire retail industry. Retailers say that

shoplifting is becoming a bigger issue and are taking steps to crack down on it. Well, what's

interesting about this is big retail can absorb more loss. Small retail was partially lost by

designed during COVID, shut a business down. You put them out of business and that happened. I'll

tell you what I saw in my own life in the greater Houston area and I'm sure this is true where you live.

I saw multi generational businesses. That's special when somebody runs a business at their

grandmother started 80 years ago. You don't just start another business like that. You still got

the same old sign if not out front that on the wall. Maybe still using old fashioned cash register.

You go in there and the memories. The smell is the memories. The people for your parents' generation,

you've watched, you've watched the owners as children grow up into owners, have their own kids,

if they raise up through the business, who then have their own kids, who they raise up through

the business? Maybe it expands, maybe it buys the business next door that goes, we went out of

business in 77 and by 80 they were able to buy it and expand a little and add a coffee shop or a

new line of products. You put all those businesses out of business. Well, the big boys didn't mind small

business going out of business. The big boys don't mind the local flavor being gone. They're just a

place to transact business. Here's the good at a cheap price because we buy in volume.

We can sell it to you for less, but they don't care about the community. If you're the head of the

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