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  2. What America’s shoplifting panic is really about - AOL

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    Shoplifting in Great Department Stores.” “The Shoplifting Profession.” “No Mercy to Shoplifters.” These headlines could be from articles today. But they’re from the early 1900s.

  3. How small businesses can recover from break-ins and theft - AOL

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    Break-ins and thefts can happen at any small business, no matter how tight the security. In the retail sector alone, more than half of small businesses said they had been victims of shoplifting in ...

  4. Tennessee woman just got banned from every Walmart across ...

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    A Tennessee woman has been banned from every Walmart in the U.S. in connection with a self-checkout scam. WREG News 3 Memphis reports that Ashley Cross, 37, was arrested at a Memphis Walmart for ...

  5. Shopkeeper's privilege - Wikipedia

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    Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property. [1]

  6. Three-strikes law - Wikipedia

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    For example, New York State had a long-standing Persistent Felony Offender law dating back to the early 20th century [9] (partially ruled unconstitutional in 2010, [10] [11] but reaffirmed en banc shortly after [12] [13]). But such sentences were not compulsory in each case, and judges had much more discretion as to what term of incarceration ...

  7. Shoplifting - Wikipedia

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    Shoplifting usually involves concealing items on the person or an accomplice, and leaving the store without paying. However, shoplifting can also include price switching (swapping the price labels of different goods), refund fraud, and "grazing" (eating or sampling a store's goods while in the store). Price switching is now an almost extinct ...

  8. New shoplifting data explains why they’re locking up the ...

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    While shoplifting rates tend to rise in November and December, which coincides with in-person holiday shopping, data from the Council on Criminal Justice’s sample of 23 U.S. cities shows higher ...

  9. The US shoplifting scourge is a lot of hype with little evidence

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    There’s been much handwringing over the scourge of shoplifting in America since 2020. To hear some retailers and politicians tell it, retail crime is out of control across the country.