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When the Walmart on Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Jr. Drive reopens next May after arsonists set fire to the big box store, it will come with a new feature to hit back at a growing wave of crime. ...
CVS (NYSE:CVS) said it would close 10% of its stores and migrate to online retail partly due to rising cases of shoplifting. Walmart reportedly shuttered half of the chain’s Chicago locations in ...
Retail stores closing in urban communities, such as the Target store in East Harlem, have better alternatives to deal with shoplifting than closure, writes Keldy Ortiz. Opinion: Retail chains are ...
Organized retail crime (ORC) refers to professional criminal enterprises ranging from regional gangs to international crime rings and other organized crime focussing on retail environments. Operations include truckjacking, shoplifting, smash and grab, cargo theft, and cargo diversion. One person acting alone is not considered an example of ...
Walmart's anti-union policies also extend beyond the United States. The documentary Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, shows one successful unionization of a Walmart store in Jonquière, Quebec, Canada, in 2004, but Walmart closed the store five months later because the company did not approve of the new "business plan" a union would require.
A person in a store slipping an item into his pocket Notice warning shoplifters of prosecution in Subang Parade, Malaysia. Shoplifting, shop theft, retail theft, or retail fraud is the theft of goods from a retail establishment during business hours, typically by concealing a store item on one's person, in pockets, under clothes or in a bag, and leaving the store without paying.
CVS, the largest US chain, closed 244 stores between 2018 and 2020. In 2021, it announced plans to close 900 stores. And Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy last year and will close up to 500 stores.
The arrest of Robert Jonathan Seacat was the culmination of a destructive 19.48-hour standoff with American police in June 2015. After being chased by police for stealing clothing from a Walmart, Seacat barricaded himself in a house at 4219 South Alton Street in Greenwood Village, Colorado. By the time Seacat was finally extracted from the ...