All news on the topic: Shoplifting

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Year of the shoplifter as thefts soar while epidemic grips Britain's high street
Industry leaders and business owners want more done to protect them and bring prosecutions after 87% of convenience store staff said thieves had verbally abused them
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Police release horrifying footage of officers shooting pregnant Black woman dead
Ta'Kiya Young, a 21-year-old from Columbus, Ohio, was shot dead in a parking lot outside a grocery store while being suspected of shoplifting on Thursday, August 24
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Co-op rolling out ‘dummy display packaging’ across stores to prevent shoplifting
Dummy display packing is usually empty packages which are placed on the shelf instead of the actual product - shoppers then have to bring the empty product to staff who will exchange it for the real thing
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Brit seaside town 'overrun with feral knife-toting rooftop yobs as young as 9'
Thugs as young as nine are said to be terrorising residents of Paignton, in Devon by running amok, throwing stones and dropping objects such as trollies from great heights
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'TikTok flash mobs' warning for parents as 'paracetamol hospital challenge'
New police chairman Donna Jones has called on parents to take action following reports of a new social media trend which encourages teens to overdose on paracetamol
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Shoppers locked inside stores after TikTok 'looting' crowds swarm Oxford Street
Nine people have been arrested after chaos descended on Oxford Street in London. Teenagers scuffled with police and shops pulled shutters down with customers still inside after TikTok videos provoked looting
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Check the crime statistics in your area with our interactive widget
Criminal offences rose to approximately 6.74 million in 2022/23 - compared to 6.34 million in the previous year - and now you can track the crime rates near your postcode with the handy In Your Area widget
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Organised shoplifting gang stole £70k worth of booze using earpieces and phones
Valeriu Cobzarencu, Andrei Stefan, Vincentiu Gheorghe, Ionut-Razvan Gheorghe and Alin Chica worked together to raid supermarkets in Essex, London, Kent and Norfolk
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'I'm a shop owner losing £1,500 a month to the epidemic of shoplifting'
Four of Saba Mahesh's shops across Sheerness, Kent, are targeted daily by youths whose anti-social and criminal behaviour has worsened since the coronavirus pandemic
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'Welcome to the Monkey Tennis era of government straight out of Alan Partridge'
The government must stop these "bizarre" ideas, like ordering over-50s to get on their bikes, and instead concentrate on education, training and rehabilitation, argues Keir Mudie
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Inside town where shoplifting ruins lives and people run riot after law change
Stealing goods worth less than £200 has effectively been decriminalised and shop owners across the UK have expressed concern it'll have a detrimental effect on trade
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7-Eleven staff attack man who tried to steal bin full of cigarettes with sticks
A would-be thief who brazenly walked behind the counter of a convenience store to steal cigarettes and vapes was beaten by staff working at a shop as he tried to leave with his haul in California
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Organised shoplifting mobs terrorise stores with 'looting' sprees as thefts soar
Shoplifting has spiked in the past year, according to new figures, with a worrying increase in the amount of criminal gangs that are targeting stores and stripping shelves bare
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Horror as shoplifting suspects casually roll three full carts from supermarket
Three women captured in footage made off with three carts full of allegedly stolen merchandise from a Burlington in California. They were able to casually walk out and away from them
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Woman dubbed Queen of Chaos whose 11 mugshots went viral says she's found God
A former East Kentucky University student has become known as the "Queen of Chaos" after her mugshots went viral on social media, showcasing her 11 arrests for various offenses, including shoplifting and terror-related crimes
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Supermarket employee shows how they monitor you at self-checkout and it's sneaky
A former Walmart employee recently took to TikTok to warn individuals who think they're getting away with shoplifting at the super-store - and she says that employees are notified of missed scans thanks to a handy secret device
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Boss of chain refusing to use self-checkout tills says they're 'disrespectful'
The president of a regional supermarket chain that refused to implement self-checkout machines at its stores has slammed them as 'highly disrespectful'
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Cost of living sees shoplifting soar by 75% - check crime rates in your area
Desperate Brits are resorting to pinching essentials as data shows police saw as much as a 75% hike in shoplifting reports - use our interactive map to see how your area was affected
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Shoppers praise 'incredible' supermarket after it bans self-serve checkouts
A regional grocery chain has been praised by shoppers after it refused to install self-checkout machines at its stores, claiming they 'limit human interaction' and don't protect jobs
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Three sweet reasons supermarket chain refuses to install self-checkout tills
A supermarket chain decided against self-checkout machines at its stores, claiming they 'limit human interaction', in a move that went down extremely well with some customers
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Supermarket won't install self-checkout tills as they 'limit human interaction'
A regional grocery chain opted out of implementing self-checkout machines at its stores, claiming they 'limit human interaction.' They're also trying to protect jobs
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Supermarket worker fired for recording 3 men stealing $500 in laundry detergent
Santino Burrola, the King Soopers employee, was alerted of his termination approximately a week after he brazenly captured video of the three men stealing detergent from the supermarket on Father's Day
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Black woman slammed to the ground and pepper-sprayed after filming arrest
Shocking video footage shows Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies throwing a Black woman to the ground and pepper spraying her during an arrest outside a grocery store,
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Police officer filmed refusing to deal with report of assault just yards away
A Sussex Police PCSO has been criticised after being filmed by a witness of an alleged assault a few hundred yards away apparently refusing to deal with the incident
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Stephen Lawrence murder suspect's chilling threat to black man during attack
Matthew White chillingly told a black man who confronted him, as he attempted to shoplift in Eltham, South East London in 2020, that he would be “Stephen Lawrenced”