RSSThe US carriers were the priority target for the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor. The old battleships were merely secondary targets of opportunity.
The IJN only discovered the carriers were not there on the morning of December 7th, 1941, and the strike force missed encountering them by mere hours (they were returning to Pearl at the time and were only hours away), and had the Japanese launched a third wave of strikes on that fateful morning, rather than leaving after only two strikes, the delay might have caused them to encounter the returning US carriers.
Yamamoto’s problem at Midway was in locating the US carriers. The one the Japanese did locate was attacked and sunk.
The US had the same problem, but got incredibly lucky…..he who sees the enemy first usually wins, much as in infantry ground combat.
Given that psychology 101 boils down to “you get more of what you incentivize, and less of what you don’t”, I expect shrinkage and property crime to soar, even if unreported/uninvestigated/unprosecuted, and stores like 7-11 to put everything behind glass, or just close up completely. Their already-low profit margins on anything other than smokes, lotto tickets, and booze make any increase in loss unaffordable, and hence not worth it under these conditions.