I did, yes. The second link has the relevant quote from the CFO - “We’re probably – you know, maybe we cried too much last year when we were hitting numbers that were 3.5% of sales”.

Though looking at the context, it looks like he regrets the actions (specifically increased security hired) that came from that. There doesn’t seem to be anything about the link to store closures.

The actual link came from an article Shepard Pie below you provided here (Is Shoplifting Really Surging?). Apparently nationwide, shoplifting is down - except in certain cities

But the increase in shoplifting appears to be limited to a few cities, rather than being truly national. […] There are some exceptions, particularly New York City, where shoplifting has spiked.

Out of the 24 cities, 17 reported decreases in shoplifting.

I’m guessing the 7 remaining cities are where the stores were closed.

This is just like Walgreens and RiteAid claiming they have to close stores due to theft, only to later admit that was a complete fabrication.

Thought this was interesting, so I tried looking for more information. Didn’t find anything other than people speculating. If you have a link or search terms I could use to find of an article of these or similar companies saying the closings were actually because of something else, I’d appreciate it.

Maybe they’re trying the AoT thing where it’s The Final Season pt1, pt2, pt3.1, pt3.2. Though yea, it’s got to be an anime original ending. No way they can cram the rest in one season.

An inordinate amount of our attention is afforded to absurdly rich children

Just…ignore him. He’s an attention-whore - this is what they do to stay relevant. Downvote articles/comments talking about him. Don’t give these sites traffic, stop saying his name, and stop mentioning his sites and his stupidness.

Just stop feeding the attention whore.

Yea, that’s what they talked about in the article

I’ve seen similar complaints with when reading about western animation too - but the context for that was in an animation guide (The Animator’s Survival Kit). I wonder if there’ll be any attempt to consolidate/document anime animation tricks before the old farts there croak