Many decades ago I worked at a conglomerate that owned a bunch of retail stores.
They had us sort a huge Excel spreadsheet by most profitable to least profitable stores—and automatically closed the 5% least profitable every year.
When you took a deep dive into the numbers shoplifting and employee theft rates were usually the primary difference between the worst stores and the best stores.
Why not have the local government buy/rent empty stores and turn them into bunk rooms for those on the street?
....bullseye!
Once upon a time I went into the restroom of one of my stores. The lady employees kept their purses in the restroom while they worked.
There on the back of the commode was this young girls purse. It was a big purse and full to overflowing in earrings and costume jewelry.
Instead of calling the police I called her husband who I knew to be an Army officer from Ft. Hood. I said, you need to get over here as soon as possible, your wife is in big trouble (she was young and very pretty). That much stuff was a felony.
He came in the store and we all marched into the restroom. There was her purse. Long story short, I told him and her that ONLY because he was a young Army officer and I didn’t want to ruin his career was I turning her over to him and, needless to say, I fired her.