Hey, it's Mark Simone. It's the bonus segment of the podcast of the show, just for you podcast listeners.

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You know, the crime is getting out of control. It's destroying a retail business, the shoplifting,

legalized by Democrats like Alvin Bragg and all these

crazy DAs who've decided not to prosecute shoplifting if it's under $1,000.

So you got professional shoplifting gangs that have been formed and they train these young

shoplifters how to go into a store and

steal as much as they can. They come in with their own shopping carts, their own trash bags,

and they can steal so much stuff, but they know how to keep it right under $1,000.

They'll run out with bag full of stuff and it's $980 so they don't get prosecuted. So that's why when you go

shopping in New York City, the toothpaste is locked up, the shampoo is locked up. It's ridiculous.

That's why a lot of chains went out of New York or big cities. Los Angeles, San Francisco,

they just left because believe it or not, in a lot of these stores, the profit

margin is tiny.

It's like a three, four percent profit margin.

So you start the shoplifting, it shrinks that profit margin even lower.

And it's a big, big problem.

Now, Target, which is a huge chain, Target is all over the place. They're getting rid of the self-checkout

stations. Now, this is a big thing in the supermarkets and everywhere. You know, the self-checkout.

You can, you go to, in the supermarket, you go to all the different aisles. The line is so long,

you can't find an aisle without a long line.

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