A gang of shoplifters dubbed the ‘Morrisons Four’ by police stole £120,000 of goods from British supermarkets on the orders of an international crime gang, an investigation has found.
The shoplifters were ordered to steal from more than 50 branches of Morrisons by gangs from Romania, who then resold the goods through a wholesaler and car boot sales.
A new Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, Britain’s Shoplifting Gangs Exposed, lays bare how dozens of retailers appear to have been targeted in this way.
Read the full article on the Daily Mail website
NAM Implications:
- Shoplifting is patently undergoing significant change:
- Traditional pilfering increasing
- A new type of desperation-thieving by cash-strapped consumers
- And now organised crime (stealing-to-order)
- The traditional retail business model was not built for all three types of theft.
- (Think legislation, protection/prevention, management of apprehended thieves)
- The retail bottom line cannot absorb the incremental costs of retail crime…
