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

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a view down an aisle of locked up beauty products inside Target
Personal care products under lock and key at a Target store.

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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.

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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

Shoppers like having items behind locked glass says Target, even as hundreds complain online

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a view down an aisle of locked up beauty products inside Target
A view down an aisle of locked-up beauty products inside Target.

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Anti-theft vending machines could solve one of our biggest shopping frustrations

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Vending machines could replace store shelves.

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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