{"id":372215,"date":"2021-11-24T20:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/major-retailers-slammed-by-increasingly-violent-shoplifters\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:30:40","slug":"major-retailers-slammed-by-increasingly-violent-shoplifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/major-retailers-slammed-by-increasingly-violent-shoplifters\/","title":{"rendered":"#Major retailers slammed by increasingly violent shoplifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Major retailers slammed by increasingly violent shoplifters<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Shoplifters are dogging a slew of major retailers this holiday season \u2014 and they\u2019re becoming increasingly organized and violent.<\/p>\n<p>As big chains including Best Buy, Nordstrom and Kroger gr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>le with bare shelves, staffing shortages and inflation, they say rampant theft has become a major problem that is not only hurting their bottom line but also terrifying their employees.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Nordstrom store in Walnut Creek, Calif., was besieged by dozens of thieves wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars and guns, according to reports.\u00a0They made off with as much as $200,000 in merchandise. Three employees were injured from pepper spray and assaults, the police said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing more and more, particularly organized retail crime,\u201d Best Buy chief executive Corie Barry said on a call with analysts Tuesday. \u201cYou can see that pressure in our financials. And more importantly, frankly, you can see that pressure with our associates. It\u2019s traumatizing.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Organized crime costs retailers $700,000 for every $1 billion in sales, according to a National Retail Federation survey late last year, which also found that 65 percent of retailers said gangs of thieves are showing \u201cgreater levels of violence and aggression than they have before,\u201d according to the survey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A Best Buy with boarded up windows\" class=\"wp-image-20258122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies6.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Best Buy said that like many retailers, rampant shoplifting has hurt its bottom line.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Only 29 percent of retailers reported an average dollar value loss of $1,000 in 2019, but that number rose to 50 percent in 2020, according to the survey. Among the most common items stolen are designer clothing, laundry detergent, designer handbags, allergy medicine, razors, high-end liquor and pain relievers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In last week\u2019s Nordstrom heist in San Francisco, the police arrested two suspects from the melee, one of whom had a firearm. \u201cThe remaining suspects in this criminal mob fled from the area in cars at high speed,\u201d the police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts blame a 2014 law in San Francisco, which lessened the penalty for shoplifting to a misdemeanor if the theft is less than $950. On Wednesday, nine suspected shoplifters were nabbed in San Francisco for looting a Louis Vuitton store, a cannabis dispensary and a Walgreens store, lifting $1 million worth of goods, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A security guard stands outside a Nordstrom store\" class=\"wp-image-20258179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Retailers say shoplifters have become increasingly violent. San Francisco police arrested two suspects in a heist of a Nordstrom and said one suspect was armed with a gun.  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In October, Walgreens said it was closing five drugstores in San Francisco that had experienced high rates of shoplifting, attributing the rash of theft to \u201corganized crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganized retail crime continues to be a challenge facing retailers across San Francisco, and we are not immune to that,\u201d Walgreens spokesperson Phil Caruso said at the time. \u201cRetail theft across our San Francisco stores has continued to increase in the past few months to five times our chain average.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September, Kroger chief executive Rodney McMullen also called out \u201corganized crime\u201d as contributing to a financial hit to the largest supermarket chain.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A pedestrian walks past a vacant storefront\" class=\"wp-image-20258255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies4.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Some experts blame the increase in shoplifting on changes in laws in some areas that have made shoplifting a misdemeanor if stolen goods are worth less than $1,000.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI know Congress and other groups are starting to spend more time on understanding what\u2019s driving [the theft],\u201d McMullen said on a call with analysts. 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As big chains including Best Buy, Nordstrom and Kroger grapple with bare shelves, staffing shortages and inflation, they say rampant theft has become a major problem that is not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/retailers-hit-hard-by-robberies.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[120157,77735,70551,73568,86935,5015,71385],"class_list":["post-372215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-24-21","tag-best-buy","tag-inflation","tag-nordstrom","tag-organized-crime","tag-retailers","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}