• A Seattle business owner blamed the city council for enabling criminals as his family’s two stores struggle to stay afloat following 11 break-ins last year.
• “I think we’d give up at some point,” Yukon Trading Company owner Kevin Rinderle told Fox News. “It’s exhausting.”
• Washington Retail businesses lost over $2.7 billion in theft in 2021, the second highest in the nation per capita, according to the Retail Industry Leaders Association.

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