shoplift

A mother from Clearwater, Florida, was arrested Sunday for allegedly using one of her children to help her shoplift from a department store at Westfield Countryside Mall.

"Police and retailers report that they are seeing new types of people trying to shoplift as well as the regulars, and some admit they are just hard-up.

It started as an alleged attempt to shoplift baby formula from a supermarket in Shrewsbury.

Summary: A parish priest who advised the needy to shoplift this christmas has defended his remarks.

A MILLION people plan to shoplift rather than buy Christmas presents.

Almost a quarter of people (24%) thought it was easiest to shoplift from an independent store, compared to just 5% who thought high street chains were the easiest.

As many as 60 per cent of consumers may shoplift at some point during their lives.

Every year, consumers shoplift about $12 billion worth of merchandise from American retailers (Cox, Cox, and Moschis 1990).

Victorian Americans, however, were not entirely wrong in blaming the shoplifting women, if only because most women did not shoplift. Store managers, notwithstanding their lamentations, never saw fit to crack down on shoplifters because they were so much in the minority.

And the detection rate for shoplifting is almost 75%, meaning there is a high chance that anyone coming to Newcastle to shoplift will get caught.

SHREWSBURY - Two Worcester women who allegedly were attempting to shoplift yesterday couldn't conceal the stolen items from police.

Age-appropriate presentations developed for elementary, middle and high schools examine why people shoplift, the procedures in place to protect property, and the cost of shoplifting to the shoplifter, as well as the community.