It's then hard to imagine how the world's biggest retailers will wipe out the small mom-and-pop stores, which work to an organized chaos that few inventory-keeping systems can mimic.
Exploits against information systems are particularly attractive to organized crime and state actors because of the richness of the target environment, the ease of exploitation, low cost of attack development, reasonably strong anonymity and difficulties in attribution, and the practical shortfalls of international legal frameworks and law enforcement regimes.