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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Retail theft has gotten so bad Walmart will build a police station inside an Atlanta store

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon (Credit: Adam Jeffery—CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

When the Walmart on Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Jr. Drive reopens next May after arsonists set fire to the big box store, it will come with a new feature to hit back at a growing wave of crime. 

According to Atlanta city officials, it will include for the first time a police department substation to reduce the risk of theft and violence in a store viewed as critical to the low-income neighborhood of Vine City.

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