Since it's the Boston Globe, a mainstay of the mainstream media, where only the NARRATIVE may be allowed you'll be surprised by this factoid: the word "shoplifting" appears absolutely nowhere in the story. It's only hinted in this short paragraph:
In many cases, longtime customers learned of the coming closures only after they encountered barren shelves, and thought enough to ask why.
Golly, why are the shelves barren? The Boston Globe knows why: racism.
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Because we never see emptier and emptier shelves in a business that is on the verge of closure. Golly.
WTTW:
"Roughly one out of every eight [U.S.] pharmacies closed between 2009 and 2015, which disproportionately affected independent pharmacies and low-income neighborhoods, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study found that pharmacies at greatest risk for closures are those with a large customer base on public insurance, which have lower reimbursement rates than private plans."
Roxbury is double the national poverty average.
So maybe keep your powder dry on this one until you have data point one, Mr. NARRATIVE.
(Psst. "It just has to be the shoplifting, I can smell it" is also a NARRATIVE.)
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