Yes. I grew up in a grocery store basically, shrink could vary 30% or more between stores. Stores with liquor in the back corners could easily be 10% more.
Theft is only reported if you caught somebody, which you basically don’t try to do anymore
Nonetheless, with the aggressive inventory practices of retailers these days, whether a theft is reported or not should be of little issue — Target already knows how much stuff is missing.
That may have been forgotten during central banks’ long experiment with zirp but we are no longer in that.
No profit? Then by all means they can sit back and let Dollar General come in and capture the retail of a town.
In the past this has generally been bad news for an entrenched retailer and the first signs of fracturing. It's hard for me to care too much though what happens to these big chains.
It's odd that by closing their brick and mortar stores they're essentially rolling up their business and conceding Amazon all those customers.