All news on the topic: Shoplifting

Tesco, Co-op, John Lewis and Sainsbury’s have recently agreed to pay almost £800,000 over two years to fund a partnership with the Police to combat shop-lifting, and there are fears this Christmas could be a crunch point

Joseph Tait went on a £2,500 spree where he stole meat and cheese from two of the retail giant's stores, resulting in a court ban from all UK shops owned by the group

Till operators and shelf stackers at the discount chain report being bombarded with verbal abuse, physically threatened and even spat at, so bosses have stepped into help

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Joseph Tait has now been barred from entering any of the 1,400 branches of Sainsbury's in the country for a year after his huge shoplifting spree in Newcastle

Tom Pursglove was not thinking straight if he imagined it would be acceptable to campaign alongside a shamed MP who no longer represents his party

Images of the CVS pharmacy look dystopian as frames take the place of products amid a mass shoplifting crisis threatening the future of pharmacy stores in many American communities

Products targeted at one South London Tesco include 0.5% Brewdog Punk IPA and alcohol-free spirits like Martini Vibrante and Tanqueray Sevilla gin

Analysts have revealed which British towns have been hardest hit by the number of shop closures according to population - and two Tory seats are top of the list

TM Eye patrols areas, catches thieves and prosecutes them in London - amid a rise in shoplifting cases across the country - and the retail industry is delighted

After his humiliating by-election losses, Rishi Sunak faces a battering from voters in a general election next year as there's a growing feeling the country is broken

Storm Babet has created tales of deaths, lost homes and the destruction of businesses, the victims must be cared for and not left behind or abandoned by insurance firms

At a summit in Downing Street, bosses at 13 major retailers including John Lewis, Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-Op, backed new plans to use facial recognition to identify violent and persistent offenders

Tory ministers have announced they will stop sending to people to jail for sentences shorter than a year, meaning thousands of shoplifters will no longer be locked up

The area from Hartlepool to Stockton-on-Tees has the highest shoplifting rate in the country - 15 times as many thefts each year as Surrey - with thieves openly stealing

Thanks to the Covid Inquiry, we now know the Government’s own advisers had strong reservations about the programme - and one professor referred to Rishi Sunak as 'Dr Death'

There were 365,164 offences in the year to June, up from 292,584 in the previous 12 months, prompting retailers and unions to urge the police to do more to tackle the menace

It is still unclear who was responsible for the deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza - the facts have yet to be established but both sides are engaging in claims and counter claims

Twelve top firms were approached for a police pilot scheme and asked to provide images of their worst offenders - and within 60 seconds, it generates a match report for an officer

Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood vows to tackle shoplifting as she told The Mirror how her family was racially abused as the till was stolen from their shop when she was younger

The Tory minister in charge of prisons told MPs on Monday some low-level offenders handed sentences of less than a year will be spared jail and instead ordered to scrub graffiti off walls

Home Bargains has opened a confidential hotline for customers to provide “any information” about a theft or crime in their local store with the chance to win £500 of rewards if it leads to a prosecution

Cheshire Police released these CCTV images of a man officers want to talk to in relation to two shoplifting offences at the same Tesco Express in the Warrington area

With our country's retail staff having to face a daily barrage of violence and abuse as the shoplifting epidemic continues to blight our high streets, ex-policing minister Hazel Blears has called for a return of Anti-Social Behaviour orders. But will that help?

The Labour leader will end the scandal that has seen criminals escape punishment if stolen goods are worth below £200 and increase punishments for those who assault shopworkers