Retail theft has seen a significant increase across various cities, prompting stores to implement new anti-theft technologies and measures. In New York City, theft is up by 4.4% year-to-date, with many incidents going unreported despite items as inexpensive as $1.79 toothbrushes being locked behind plexiglass. This has led to businesses, including Primark and Boots, to adopt stricter security measures at the tills, such as sealing customers' bags with blue "sold" stickers and installing high-tech security tags on targeted items like a £30 Guinness gadget advertised by Jamie Dornan. Additionally, stores are enhancing their surveillance capabilities with new AI cameras featuring loitering analytics and face-matching technology to identify known offenders. Some supermarkets in the UK have also installed large glass barriers around cash desks to mitigate the risk of theft and violence. These efforts aim to curb the rising trend of shoplifting and organized retail theft, which has forced multiple businesses to shut down and left victims hesitant to contact the police. In L.A., a task force of detectives is battling organized retail theft, further highlighting the nationwide effort to tackle this issue.
Checkout staff at some Primark branches have started sealing up its paper carrier bags with blue "sold" stickers to stop shoplifters Read more 🔗 https://t.co/jrm8ql0B2p
In L.A., a task force of detectives is battling organized retail theft, in which pilfered goods often end up for sale online—or commingled on store shelves with legitimate items. https://t.co/iJPFO35g8j
Checkout staff at some Primark branches have started sealing up its paper carrier bags with blue "sold" stickers to stop shoplifters Read more 🔗 https://t.co/FRIeW98wnU
Primark adding stickers to bags to stop shoplifters from walking out of stores with stolen goods Read more 👇 https://t.co/5We04KJj5f
Customers' bags will be sealed at the tills to stop a common theft trick https://t.co/8OVn2LmWh8
Retailers pile on new anti-theft tech https://t.co/qtRwmUcD5t #axioswhat'snext
Stores are piling on anti-theft technologies, such as new AI cameras that use "loitering analytics" and face-matching tech designed to spot known offenders, or they're inviting shoppers to give personal information in order to unlock a store shelf. https://t.co/0nC2TQK72A
In America some shops are fighting back against shoplifters. https://t.co/gQTSFYdJns
Inside the Boots nerve centre that's catching shoplifters in action: How staff issue stern warnings to would-be thieves from control room and build up profiles of serial offenders https://t.co/kzY2FPoDhH https://t.co/sMyqFQOqaU
Shoplifters target £30 Guinness gadget advertised by Jamie Dornan forcing supermarkets to add high-tech security tags https://t.co/FCXwR7MjjF https://t.co/qawvPUqrgD
The stores are introducing new measures in an effort to cut the cost of shoplifting https://t.co/8OVn2LmorA
The Times was given exclusive access to the centre where staff monitor 1,150 Boots stores and take over the store’s loudspeakers to warn potential shoplifters that they are being recorded ⬇️ https://t.co/a2kZUNEz2g
UK law and order update: supermarkets are now installing huge glass barriers around the cash desks, presumably due to heightened risk of theft &/or violence. https://t.co/tVSn89qYaF
Times Square NYC. A person ran up to a vendor both and stole a rack full of clothing and took off . Shoplifting and boosting has shut down multiple businesses throughout NYC. Victims don't even bother calling the police anymore 🎥 by @LeeroyPress For licensing email… https://t.co/snQlhZmgnh
Primark introduces new rules at the tills in strict 'crackdown' https://t.co/QjFFIKVkLA
Reported retail THEFT is UP 4.4% in NYC this year YTD despite $1.79 toothbrushes locked behind plexiglass with tens of thousands of more incidents UNREPORTED. It's a good time to remember that local government in NYC told us last May they were going to put up digital KIOSKS in… https://t.co/1sIb5o5Qkc