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Shoplifting affects all of us with higher prices and lowered availability, but more retailers than ever have a new tech tool this year to help them fight back. Retailers have a new tool to help ...
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.
While shoplifting has been a growing problem, large-scale, smash-and-grab thefts, in which groups of individuals brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight, have become a crisis in ...
Shoplifting incidents involving an assault or other crime constitutes less than 2% of shoplifting incidents, the analysis found. Retailers and political leaders are advocating for police and ...
Video surveillance of checkouts is common, but reviewing the resulting tapes manually is often prohibitively expensive. The new system attempts to detect unusual and possibly fraudulent behavior on the part of the cashier, such as blocking the bar code, stacking items up and just scanning the bottom item, and directly bagging the merchandise ...
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 ...
They blame shoplifting and organized groups stealing merchandise from stores to resell online for the rise in shrink. (Shrink also includes employee theft, damaged products, administrative errors ...
If it involves serious bodily injury, 6, 7, 9, 10, or 12 years in prison. If a firearm was used, 13, 14, or 16 years. If the charge involving the firearm had it personally or intentionally firing it with no bodily injury, 23, 24, or 26 years in prison. If a firearm was used and it involved great bodily injury, 28, 29, or 31 years to Life in prison.