A Best Buy employee checks the receipt of a customer leaving the store with a flatscreen TV.
A Best Buy manager checks a customer's receipt. Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said theft rates have remained relatively stable over the last few years.
  • Target, Walmart, Dick's, and other major retailers have sounded alarms on rising retail theft.
  • But Best Buy said Tuesday that theft at its stores has remained relatively stable.
  • The CEO attributed this in part to stores having only one entrance and few self checkouts.

Target, Walmart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and other major retailers have been sounding alarms over the last year about rising rates of retail theft.