As winter’s long nights descend, convenience stores face a chilling reality: Darkness is a thief’s best friend. While the ...
Boston saw a 55% increase in shoplifting reports between in the first half of 2019 and that same period in 2024. The post ...
but retail theft is an integral offspring of overall inflation, causing prices to go up an average of 1.8% because stores have to cover their losses and ramp up security. It's even forcing some ...
The Department of Homeland Security says it has launched a program to fight organized retail crime called “Operation Boiling Point.” It says that unlike typical shoplifting, organized retail ...
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas lawmakers on Thursday considered new ways to combat retail theft, a growing and often organized, destructive threat facing stores across Texas. Law enforcement experts ...
While the government has voiced its commitment to tackling rising shoplifting incidents and falling punishment rates, retailers urgently need to prevent further losses. According to Harrison Retail ..
And according to that same research, more than one in five Americans has resorted to shoplifting just to make ends meet.
DENVER — Natural Grocers announced on Wednesday it plans to close one of its stores at the corner of Colfax and Washington due to retail theft and ... our investment in security and loss ...
Is the shoplifting “crisis” over? Last year, retail executives were sounding the alarm about shoplifting cutting into profits. This year, there’s been less hullabaloo. CNN reported that ment ...
The Rite Aid on the corner of Long Beach and Compton boulevards, though, takes this approach to security to a ... a higher level of brazen shoplifting and organized retail crime,” the company ...
A Walmart shopper shamelessly filmed herself “shoplifting” at the self-checkout ... has been one of the tools the Arkansas-based retail giant has introduced in recent years to catch possible ...