dropdown is populating empty list in laravel 6

Laravel Version 6. PHP 7.4.

I simply wants to populate my dropdown values form database table. Initially, It was returning error "variable undefined" but when I enclosed my code into if condition, my error was gone but drop-down list is empty.

Please suggest where I' m stuck.

Route.php

Route::get('products/qrcodes/basic','niceActionController@getMake');

Controller

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use \Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\NiceAction;
use App\NiceActionLogged;

public function getMake()
{
$records = DB::table('users')->get();
return view('products.qrcodes.basic', ['records' => $records]);
}

View

<form>
   <select  required>
     @if ((empty($records)))
        Whoops! Something went wrong
     @else
     @foreach ($records as $item)
     <option value=""></option>
     @endforeach
     @endif
   </select>
</form>

I also tried "dd($records);" but nothing happens.

via Chebli Mohamed