'VERY DANGEROUS': Businesses 'closing left and right' over increase in shoplifting
are "closing left and right" in response to an increase in brazen shoplifting incidents, merchants in the city say.
"Right now we have a lot of problems with the city of Philadelphia. We are closing left and right," Manzoor Chughtai, the president of the Franchise Owners Association, said, according to WPVI. "Robbers are coming in, they're just robbing the place left and right." Chughtai said 15-20 stores in the city have closed in recent days, noting that people aren’t stepping up to take over a store and run it."We have now lost about 15-20 stores in the city of Philadelphia. Nobody wants to take over the store. Nobody wants to run the business in the city of Philadelphia. Very dangerous," said Chughtai.
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