Colby Cosh: Small retailers will pay the price for Liberal crime policies

The “shrinkage” problem is turning the ordinary urban shopping experience into something with a troubling, humiliating resemblance to air travel, as CBC’s Harris took the trouble to document by talking to a few Loblaw and Walmart shoppers. The vast majority of people who intend to pay for the stuff they bought don’t like being treated as shoplifting suspects! One man carps that big stores are “choosing to combat theft in a way that disadvantages the regular customer.

I know, I know: since Loblaw and Walmart have remained extremely profitable as inflation suffocates their customers, these aren’t the most popular institutions around nowadays.

If you read both of these stories with a little imagination, you begin to see that nobody is treating “organized retail theft” — fearless shoplifting on steroids, perpetrated by lowlifes who have opted altogether out of the social contract — as a problem for the economy as a whole. For business reporter Siekerska, it’s a problem for the bottom lines of big retailers. For vox-populi-gatherer Harris, it’s a problem for touchy Karens.

Loblaw and Walmart have resources to combat unpunished, unlimited theft: they have the required market share to make shopping exactly as unpleasant as necessary for you and I as they need to. It’s not so easy to find and interview the people who lost a business to urban theft and ubiquitous junkie vandalism, or the people who were never able to start one.

Canadian criminal justice no longer meaningfully protects property of any sort — that’s the world Liberal voters have decided we ought to live in. The consequences are largely unmeasurable but they’re clearly beginning to bite down. I could give you the economist rap about how cities are the propulsive engines of our economy, which implies strongly that it needs to be possible to do business in them.

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