That's funny, I'm showing you over and over where you are missing basic knowledge about statistics, and you refuse to listen.

Store ownership would be a "type". Or category of data. Or class of data. Pick whatever word you understand, it is a different dataset, and it was omitted. Not only omitted, but any worker that move to that dataset from the dataset that was included was assumed to be a job lost. Which renders your claim there is no difference, irrelevant. If you don't understand that's a problem, I don't think I can explain it to you, that's a fundamental lack of understanding of statistics, stubbornly so. You think it's statistically sound that a person who got another job is counted as a job lost. Hard to imagine a more obvious error than that.

"you haven't shown ANY logic" - that is a false statement on your part. The following statement is logic.

"It's not merely likely corporate-owned sites will have different policies, hiring practices, and financials, than..."