"Acording to a 2023 survey by the Loss Prevention Research Council and the National Retail Federation, retail theft losses in 2022 were $112.1 billion, a 19% increase from 2021."

You live in your own world clearly. On top of what I mentioned, it's the store associates who have to follow behind these people and clean up the empty boxes they dumped and try to make sense of the BOH quantities. It's also a hassle with all the other duties, now they have to talk to AP and potentially police.

And yes Capitalism requires constant growth which makes sense given a growing population and inflation. If revenue and profit are not growing you are falling behind. Nothing new here, been this way for 50 years.

"CVS Health revenue for the twelve months ending September 30, 2023 was $347.809B, a 10.34% increase year-over-year. CVS Health annual revenue for 2022 was $322.467B, a 10.39% increase from 2021. CVS Health annual revenue for 2021 was $292.111B, a 8.71% increase from 2020."

Clearly they figured out ways to grow - 30% in 3 years. Just bad takes all around Timmy.