So shoot the Messenger () and counter with The Chronicle, which essentially says the same thing with more political correctness.
I remember many years ago I worked in a record store on Union street, in San Francisco. For those who don't know, it's one of the city's posh boutique street in a posh neighborhood.
Even so, theft, or tentative, was significant (0nce every other week), and the stereotype portrait of the petty criminals would make liberals like me cringe. It was disheartening. But at least the business could manage these losses for several years beyond my time there, until increased rents shut it down.
I can only imagine the level of brazen thievery in Westgate, in the middle of vagrants, drugs, tents and roaming kids looking for a thrill... The only thing to deter petty criminality there is to have a guard posted at each store with a taser in hand... Imagine the atmosphere... That's why they're closing down. These retailers and Westfield don't want to become some political punching balls of the right or the left while getting fleeced on a daily basis.
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