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LA Sheriff says it busted a retail crime ring with millions of dollars of stolen medication and personal care products

Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:27

a view down an aisle of locked up beauty products inside Target — Personal care products under lock and key at a Target store.
Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins/Insider

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A retail group said organized retail crime accounted for 'nearly half' of 2021's $94.5 billion inventory loss. It didn't.

Thu, 12/07/2023 - 08:41

A railroad workers inspects a track as they repair a section of Union Pacific train tracks after a train derailed from the tracks, which are littered with thousands of opened boxes and packages stolen from cargo shipping containers targeted by thieves as the trains stop in downtown Los Angeles, California — Dozens of freight cars are broken into every day in Los Angeles by thieves who take advantage of their stops to loot the packages they carry, leavi

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Is shoplifting getting worse? It depends on how you measure it.

Fri, 11/10/2023 - 05:12

Courtroom with piles of personal care items stolen in organized retail crime — Some of the more than $200,000 in stolen retail goods seized by the San Francisco Police Department from a man who was reselling them online.
San Francisco Police Department via AP

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San Francisco's retail crime may not be as bad as you think

Thu, 11/09/2023 - 11:02

A police cruiser outside a boarded-up Fendi retail store in San Francisco in November 2021 — A police cruiser outside a boarded-up Fendi retail store in San Francisco in November 2021.
Ethan Swope/Getty Images

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Walmart, Amazon, and others lost millions of dollars to an organized online refund fraud scheme

Tue, 11/07/2023 - 13:54

An Amazon workers pull a cart of packages for delivery — Delivery drivers are often the ones to bear the brunt of customer complaints about missing or damaged shipments.
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

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Target says it's closing 9 locations over crime, but New York City crime stats surrounding its East Harlem store tell another story

Sat, 10/07/2023 - 07:09

the exterior entrance of Target in East Harlem — Target said it would close this location on 117th Street in New York, along with eight other US stores.
Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins/Insider

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Former Target vice-chairman says the internet is 'like a flea market on steroids' for getting rid of stolen products

Fri, 09/29/2023 - 08:13

Outside of Target store with employee — Target is widely regarded as a great place to work, but current and former employees say there's more to the story
Associated Press

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Target to close 9 stores across 4 states, citing retail crime. See the full list.

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 16:02

Empty shopping cart sits next to empty pens at Target store on Black Friday — Target is closing nine stores in four states. It says theft and organized retail crime are threatening safety.
Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

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Shoplifting and other inventory loss cost retailers $112 billion last year

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:12

Tide laundry detergent bottles locked up inside CVS store — Tide laundry detergent bottles with a security locking system to prevent theft at a CVS pharmacy, Queens, New York.
Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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How Tractor Supply managed to shrink theft rates when they're surging almost everywhere else

Thu, 09/07/2023 - 10:39

Shoppers visit a Tractor Supply Co. store in Wisconsin — "Organized retail crime is worse now than I've ever seen it," Tractor Supply Co. CEO Hal Lawton told Insider – but not at his company.
Dominick Reuter/Insider

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