{"id":86158,"date":"2023-09-29T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86158"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:29:14","slug":"instant-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86158","title":{"rendered":"Instant Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As we noted the other day, Target is closing nine stores in four, blue, cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news brought out a flood of expert social media opinion from people who have never worked in the productive private sector. “Target is just using teh crime to cover up teh realz <\/em>reazons they’re closing” was the big line around mid-week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Including this, from our long time acquaintance, Molly Priesmeyer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may remember Molly \u2013 and \u201caward winning journalist\u201c who is never let the fact she doesn\u2019t know anything about a subject<\/a> stop her from writing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She turns her keen-eyed expertise to the world of business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Let’s be frank – many things can be true simultaneously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Business ain’t easy. Balancing supply, demand and asking price isn’t for the faint of heart, and that’s before you get into taxes, regulations, and externalities like regular “shrinkage”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WIth all that, though, Target’s been in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and even NYC for literally decades, through good times and bad, ups and downs in markets, the works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the closures aren’t spread across the entire market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as Target’s security? Not sure if they’re better than the FBI – but let’s say they perfected teh art of store security. That means they catch <\/em>thieves, grifters, swindlers and other ne’er do wells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Target may do a lot of things, but rthey don’t run any county attorney’s offfices. Or any city councils, especially the ones making laws like shoplifting less than $900 doesn’t even warrant a charge, much less a sentence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Target’s big, but not that big. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps “award winning journalist” Priesjeyer has some insight on the facts that aren’t apparent from, well, the facts. I’m all ears. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we noted the other day, Target is closing nine stores in four, blue, cities. The news brought out a flood of expert social media opinion from people who have never worked in the productive private sector. “Target is just using teh crime to cover up teh realz reazons they’re closing” was the big line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,7,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-crime-and-punishment","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86161,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86158\/revisions\/86161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}