Thread by @radleybalko, I don’t understand what we’re supposed to take away from this. Dollar [...]

I don’t understand what we’re supposed to take away from this. Dollar Generals should hire armed guards? Call cops on loiterers? Also, how does 200 violent incidents over 3 years across 24,000 stores compare to, say, gas station chains or McDonalds’? https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dollar-stores-became-magnets-for-crime-and-killing

How Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing

Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dollar-stores-became-magnets-for-crime-and-killing

Also dubious of assertions like store managers not caring about armed robberies, or that untidy shelves foster violent crime.

It’s definitely a problem that DG is the last business standing in underserved communities. But I’m unclear on why DG is the target, here.

Also, it’s bizarre to criticize the stores for dealing mostly in cash. They serve poor people. Of course they deal mostly in cash.

So this is odd: Three days ago, CNN also had a long, in-depth report on Dollar General stores and crime, making some of the same allegations. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/business/dollar-general-robberies/index.html

Dollar General is cheap, popular and spreading across America. It's also a robbery magnet, police...

At a time when other retailers are struggling, Dollar General is booming. But these insiders and security experts say the company is failing to protect workers from violent crime.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/business/dollar-general-robberies/index.html

I deleted this tweet, because it’s speculative and ungenerous. (And has a typo.) But for the reasons I mention in this thread, I still find these articles blaming discount stores for violent crime odd and unpersuasive.

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