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‘Organized Retail Crime’ Is Growing (And Not Just Because Of The Pandemic)

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Organized crime rings are taking advantage of the pandemic, looser police enforcement and a softening in anti-shoplifting laws to swipe tons of merchandise from retail stores and warehouses across the United States. Just in the past month, police in San Francisco and Polk County, Fla.,

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. Weaknesses.

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Fintech Trending: Making Fintech Great Again?

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Pictured: PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel addressing delegates at the Republican National Convention in the summer of 2016. Drive out to Sacramento, or even just across the bridge to Oakland, and you won’t see the same prosperity. ” Pictured: “The United States Senate, A.D. But Silicon Valley is a small place.

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