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.
Evette Ingram, owner of Evette’s Beauty Supply, shut down her two beauty stores in Los Angeles County after not only losing profits from retail theft but also for fearing her personal safety.
“You used to see teenagers shoplifting. And now I see people from all walks of life shoplifting. People from all walks of life are breaking into my stores, from young to old. It definitely became more brazen,” she said in a recent episode of EpochTV’s “California Insider.”…