Organized retail crime: How it happens, what stores do to stop it

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Organized retail crime has ballooned into a $100 billion problem — and store employees are dying over it

since 2019. And everyone from retailers to the federal government and law enforcement is trying to stop it. These crimes aren't as simple as a lone shoplifter pocketing a product. Instead, criminal organizations stealing large quantities of goods and reselling them for profit perpetrate them.

Retailers like Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Walgreens, and more have called out retail theft as a threat to their businesses. Eight out of 10 retailers in the study said these crimes have become violent andSpencer Platt/Getty ImagesOrganized retail crime is not the $10,000 jewelry heist you see in the movies, Jake Stauch, the director of product for the security company Verkada, said.

 

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insiderretail Wage theft is still the biggest monetary theft in America.

Ironically Democrats have done nothing to curtail this. But when stores close (in poor neighborhoods first) they will be the first to squeal

Wouldn't this injured grandmother be better off today if every retail store had cameras tied into a police facial recognition system?

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