‘My Passion Has Been Stolen’: California Small Business Owner Closes Stores Amid Retail Crime Wave

Rudy Blalock
Siyamak Khorrami
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As crime and retail theft increase throughout California, more shops are closing while others are fleeing the state.

For one California entrepreneur, the state’s wave of increased theft in recent years was almost enough for her to forgo her dream of helping cancer patients rediscover their beauty and confidence through wigs sold at her now-closed beauty stores.