Retail Crime Growing in Severity: NRF

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8. Not through the doors

through the plate glass windows and not department stores - mid and higher end stores.

Many other thefts sometimes are termed employee theft because it's easier to collect the insurance on those without making any expensive changes. Firing an employee is much cheaper than putting in expensive shrinkage control devices. I saw that in action many times and usually the employee fired had nothing to do with the theft, it was usually because the store was too cheap to put in actual security.

On edit: There are many organized theft rings that are big. They operate on a level that covers from the warehouses with their own truckers etc. Those are really organized and the inside person isn't an existing employee, but gets hired with the express intent of robbery.