Tag: homeless

Large retailers in hard-hit cities are closing shops due to the sharp rise in homeless individuals nearby. Read more in this article.

Retail crime is worse than ever in California, where laws are quite lenient for offenders. Restraining orders might be the best solution.

Unhoused individuals have created encampments and taken shelter in parking lots, alleyways, and dumpster areas, presenting a heartbreaking but difficult challenge for retailers.

Retailers have always been intimately connected to the communities they serve. From the days of the general store with the potbelly stove where pioneers gathered to discuss the weather and harvests, retail has been the center of most communities.

On a single night in 2020, approximately 580,000 people were homeless in the United States, a 2 percent increase since 2019 and the fourth consecutive annual increase nationwide.