shoplifting

The California State Senate has passed a bill requiring employers to prepare workplace violence plans — without a controversial provision that would have prevented bosses from telling their employees to confront shoplifters.

The only thing that will stop this preventable epidemic of retail theft is real and serious consequences for those who are caught. Not doing this is a choice.

An alleged shoplifter fought with police Monday after trying to steal a television from a Target in Atlanta, Georgia.

A battered Lowe’s employee terminated for chasing after shoplifters was offered her job back at the store in Rincon, Georgia. 

The Safeway store chain is installing anti-theft gates at more San Francisco locations, after a wave of shoplifting has hit its stores, and others, throughout the Bay Area.

Criminals have been given a “licence to shoplift” in the UK as police resources are spent elsewhere, warned the head of a major retailer.

A security guard for a CVS store in Manhattan is facing murder charges for allegedly stabbing a serial shoplifter to death on Thursday, according to police.

A Chicago man by the name of Neiman Marcus Collins is charged with shoplifting and identify theft for using a stolen credit card at, you guessed it — Neiman Marcus.

A supermarket in New York City is protecting $6 ice cream cartons with bolted plastic tops to prevent shoplifters from stealing them this summer, the New York Post reported.

A newly arrived migrant to the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois, has been charged with felony theft after allegedly shoplifting over $3,100 worth of merchandise from Ralph Lauren.

The California State Senate passed a bill last week that would prevent employers from requiring employees to intervene to stop shoplifting — a growing scourge in the state since the enactment of criminal justice reforms.

A woman has been arrested after two young children were left in a car that caught fire while she was allegedly shoplifting in Oviedo, Florida, on May 26.

Three Venezuelan nationals have been charged with a series of crimes after having recently arrived, potentially on migrant buses, in the sanctuary city of Chicago, Illinois. 

Every ten minutes, a downtown San Francisco Target worker will reportedly see a theft. While multiple products, such as deodorant, are under lock and key at the Metreon mall Target and security guards in bright vests wander the store, thieves

Two Big Lots managers in a town outside Bakersfield, California, were fired after following an alleged shoplifter out of the store into the store’s parking lot.

A San Francisco Target store has put its merchandise on lockdown as the city remains unable to curb its shoplifting crisis.

A mere 327 people have been arrested for shoplifting an astounding 6,000 times and account for more than a third of shoplifting arrests.

Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and other mega-retailers have shuttered stores throughout the U.S. due to an overwhelming uptick in thefts. 

An employee was attacked recently when he tried to stop two alleged shoplifters at a store in a Bronx neighborhood.

An 83-year-old Home Depot employee died Thursday at a North Carolina hospital after reportedly being pushed by an alleged shoplifter six weeks prior.

A female shoplifter and a male security guard are both dead following a shootout at an Oxon Hill, Maryland, Giant grocery store on Friday morning.

A coalition of mainly Latino supermarket owners in New York City are reportedly showing support for Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin after having endured rampant shoplifting.

Police in Roseville, Michigan, say they have identified a man who entered a Costco Wholesale store and stole approximately $1,100 worth of king crab legs.

A woman with 12 shoplifting convictions has been accused of doing the same thing 18 more times in Chicago, prosecutors said Friday.

The soft-on-crime policies in San Francisco are leading to serial offenders getting back on the streets to commit more crimes.

Police should use “discretion” when deciding to prosecute shoplifting in Britain due to the cost of living crisis, a police watchdog argued.

Three individuals appeared to snatch items from a shelf inside a San Francisco-area Walgreens as customers watched, Fox News reported Tuesday.

A woman who admitted she attempted to shoplift fabric softener from a New York City Duane Reade claims she was “manhandled” by a security guard after she forked over the product and tried to exit the store, according to a report.

A day after thieves nabbed items valued at $35,000 from Burberry on Michigan Avenue, a similar incident happened at Gucci on Friday, police said, adding that the group fled in a stolen car.

An unidentified person at a San Francisco Walgreens filmed a man shoplifting while customers and employees watched.

A recent incident at a Walgreens in San Francisco recorded workers standing helpless while someone apparently dumped items into a bag.

A California sheriff’s department released footage of a deputy-involved shooting at a Walmart after a subject allegedly reached for a gun.

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) defended 12 suspects arrested by the New York Police Department (NYPD) for shoplifting, blaming their alleged crimes on the end of the child tax credit, despite the suspects’ lengthy criminal histories.

The NYPD is searching for a man they say punched a 21-year-old woman in the face while he shoplifted from a Manhattan Duane Reade Friday morning.

A homeless man has been charged with burglary for attempting to walk away with a flat-screen television he saw in a downtown Seattle Target store.

A career criminal, with a rap sheet dating back to the 1980s, has been freed from jail for the fourth time in six months after he stole a $750 70-inch television at a Target store in Seattle, Washington.