TIL police are called to Walmart stores 3-4 times as often as they are to other big-box retailers like Target. 25% of all arrests in St. Petersburg, FL and 92% of larceny calls in Granite Falls, NC are attributed to single Walmart locations in each city.

“According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a red herring may be intentional, or unintentional; it is not necessarily a conscious intent to mislead. The expression is mainly used to assert that an argument is not relevant to the issue being discussed.”

The “true subject” of the OP’s “article”? Maybe I’m not seeing what you are seeing, because on my end it’s just a headline and a link to Wikipedia that talks about higher crime in Walmart’s.

By calling my post a Red Herring, Are you claiming that Walmart employees don’t participate in crimes at Walmart? If not, I think I’m missing the “true subject” of your replies.

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