Spigot iconomy8/3/2023 It’s an opportunistic crew stealing specific items from a specific place or one item from many places to resell them,” said Hayes. The bigger bucket, however, is crime of opportunity. They’re taking necessities like bread and meat. “There is a trend of people who may have never stolen before, they are unsophisticated in how they steal. He described two types of store theft plaguing retailers currently. Now they can’t afford basic necessities,” said Read Hayes, criminologist at the University of Florida and director of the Loss Prevention Research Council, which has members including retailers such as Walmart, Target, Home Depot and Gap. “A community might be struggling with heavy job losses and people can’t easily find another job. Need and opportunity become forceful catalysts for driving up incidents of retail crime, experts said. But as economic fears grow amid inflation and rising borrowing costs, shoplifting often comes with the territory, industry watchers say. It’s not clear that crime is growing significantly more serious. Many other retailers have blamed crime for closing stores. Nordstrom, Whole Foods and some other big chains said they were abandoning San Francisco because of changing economic conditions or employee safety. Target last week said it was bracing to lose half a billion dollars this year because of rising theft. Retailers large and small say they’re struggling to contain an escalation in store crimes - petty shoplifting to organized sprees of large-scale theft that clear entire shelves of products.
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