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UK Retailers Demand Crackdown to Stop Wave of Shoplifting
- Almost 90 companies group together to call for new law
- Cost of retail crime reached £1.76 billion in year to April
A Tesco supermarket in Potters Bar, UK.
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Retailers ranging from Tesco Plc to Burberry Group Plc have called for immediate action from the UK government to tackle the rise in shoplifting that’s emerged during the nation’s cost-of-living crisis.
Almost 90 retail chiefs have signed a letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman asking for the government to create a standalone offense of assaulting a retail worker, along with tougher sentences. The retailers, which also include department stores Fortnum & Mason and Harvey Nichols, are demanding that police place a higher priority on retail crime.