Shoplifting in this popluar town isn't just loss on a balance sheet, as the real damage is watching decent people grow numb ...

Retail theft in the United Kingdom has increased sharply in recent years, with confectionery products such as chocolate among the most frequently stolen items. Industry data show that overall ...

Retail theft in the United Kingdom has shown a continued upward trend, presenting mounting operational and financial pressures on retailers. New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) ...

Even the UK’s minister of crime was a victim of it. Dame Diana Johnson, minister of state for policing, fire and crime prevention, had her purse snatched this week at a police conference where she was ...

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in ...

Shoplifting offenses in England and Wales rose 13% in the year ended June 2025, as British retailers grapple with a worsening wave of in-store crime. Theft has reached record levels in the UK, with ...

The explosive rise of shoplifting in the UK is reshaping the retail security sector as personnel numbers grow and stores turn to new — sometimes controversial — technology. Almost £2 billion ($2.5 ...