The Cost of Shoplifting This Season
Shoplifting may have led to a man's death outside a Lithonia Walmart, but how does the petty crime affect the average consumer?
From Cartersville Patch Shoplifting, a petty crime that may have cost a man his life outside a Walmart in Lithonia, hits Georgia families in the pocketbook each year. Vidal Calloway, 40—a good person who had a drug problem, according to his wife—was dead when police came to arrest him on suspicion of shoplifting two DVD players, Stone Mountain-Lithonia Patch reported. The police report indicated Calloway was involved in an altercation with two employees and a private security agent. The "truly sad situation," according to Walmart, brings to light incidents that happen every day, all across the country, and even more so during the holidays. About 27 million people in America—that's 1 in 11 people—are shoplifters, according to the National …
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Fred Tarasoff
5:07 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Shoplifting as well as internal theft seems to be a growing problem and only gets worse in during the holiday shopping season. One area that often retailers fail to deal with is to make their employees part of the loss prevention solution. Employee and management training is one of the most cost effective ways of dealing with theft. This type of training makes an establishment a tough target and … more ›