{"id":515086,"date":"2022-11-23T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/retailers-add-cameras-steel-cables-to-deter-holiday-crime\/"},"modified":"2022-11-23T23:06:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T20:06:57","slug":"retailers-add-cameras-steel-cables-to-deter-holiday-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/retailers-add-cameras-steel-cables-to-deter-holiday-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"#Retailers add cameras, steel cables to deter holiday crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4033136f2b8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4033136f2b8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/retailers-add-cameras-steel-cables-to-deter-holiday-crime\/#%E2%80%9CRetailers_add_cameras_steel_cables_to_deter_holiday_crime%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Retailers add cameras, steel cables to deter holiday crime&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/retailers-add-cameras-steel-cables-to-deter-holiday-crime\/#Surveillance_and_strobe_lights\" >Surveillance and strobe lights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/retailers-add-cameras-steel-cables-to-deter-holiday-crime\/#%E2%80%98Pet_peeve\" >\u2018Pet peeve\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CRetailers_add_cameras_steel_cables_to_deter_holiday_crime%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Retailers add cameras, steel cables to deter holiday crime&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Retailers\u00a0ranging from Walmart to Barnes &amp; Noble are installing cameras or locking away items to deter shoplifters and thieves as they brace for a post-pandemic rush of holiday shoppers this year.<\/p>\n<p>Some, including Walmart, J.C. Penney,\u00a0<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 and\u00a0Walgreens, put in place new surveillance systems or more security guards. Others, like Target\u00a0and Barnes &amp; Noble, sealed merchandise behind plexiglass or tethered it with steel cables to store shelves.<\/p>\n<p>The retail industry has decried theft this holiday season as it struggles with excess inventories and a pullback in consumer spending at a time of high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSales are suppressed. Profits are being punished at the time of the highest inflation in 42 years. And now with the cost of preventing crime going up, that\u2019s going to be passed along in higher prices,\u201d said Burt Flickinger, managing director at retail consulting firm Strategic Resource Group.<\/p>\n<p>The effect on holiday sales and profits \u201cwill be horrific,\u201d he added. \u201cNowadays you can see shampoos are locked up, along with acetaminophen and Tylenol and multipacks of toothpaste locked up \u2026. people planning to shop in stores will not want to go in to these locked and over-secured stores. So overall\u00a0retailers\u00a0lose both the planned purchase and the impulse purchases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crime has been in the spotlight since a spate of brazen, violent store thefts \u2014 including a \u201csmash and grab\u201d incident during the holiday season last year where 80 people rushed into a Nordstrom near San Francisco and\u00a0ran out with armfuls\u00a0of merchandise, injuring five employees. One\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/research\/national-retail-security-survey-2022\">survey<\/a>\u00a0by the National Retail Federation (NRF) cited a 26.5% jump last year in \u201corganized retail crime\u201d carried out by groups of people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A Nordstrom that was robbed in Chicago.\" class=\"wp-image-24766845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A Nordstrom that was robbed in Chicago.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But it is unclear whether overall US retail crime is on the rise, with little data available on the problem. Total losses from shoplifting, theft, fraud and errors for US\u00a0retailers\u00a0in 2021\u00a0remained steady at an average rate of 1.4% of total sales,\u00a0as it had been over the previous five years.<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u00a0retailers\u00a0are diverting more resources towards security this quarter, which\u00a0could\u00a0add pressure on margins already squeezed by higher gas, transportation, labor and raw material costs.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem is that prosecuting petty crime is a hassle, and some states raised their thresholds for the value of merchandise stolen to around $1,000 to trigger a felony charge.<\/p>\n<p>That puts the onus on preventing crime in the first place, especially during the Thanksgiving weekend that is expected to see a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/media-center\/press-releases\/record-1663-million-shoppers-expected-during-thanksgiving-weekend\">record shopper turnout<\/a>. The\u00a0busy holiday season\u00a0represents nearly 20% of total US retail sales for the year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Toiletries are locked behind plexiglass in a Target in New York's Times Square.\" class=\"wp-image-24767069\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=925 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Toiletries are locked behind plexiglass in a Target in New York\u2019s Times Square.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Surveillance_and_strobe_lights\"><\/span>Surveillance and strobe lights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A sign of the times can be seen in the small communities of Paducah, Ky., and Opelika, Ala.,\u00a0where Walmart, J.C. Penney, Walgreens\u00a0and other major\u00a0retailers\u00a0have brought in large, mobile surveillance units that record all activity in their parking lots.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Walmart, for example, said\u00a0it has nine surveillance units outside three massive Supercenter stores in both cities. One of the retailer\u2019s stores in Virginia on Tuesday was the scene of the latest mass shooting in the US, when a\u00a0manager opened fire\u00a0and killed six people before turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n<p>In Paducah and Opelika, the units provided by LiveView Technologies as part of a pilot offer 24-hour video footage to\u00a0retailers\u00a0so they can alert authorities of any suspicious activity, said Brian Laird, Paducah\u2019s chief of police. They also have flashing strobe lights and loud speakers to warn potential thieves that their actions are being observed.<\/p>\n<p>Others\u00a0retailers\u00a0have focused their anti-theft efforts inside their stores. A Target in White Plains, NY, for example, placed all Ulta Beauty\u00a0cosmetics behind locked plexiglass.<\/p>\n<p>At a Barnes &amp; Noble in the Galleria Mall in White Plains, American Girl \u2018Wellie Wisher\u2019 dolls are shackled to the shelves with electronic ties. At another Barnes &amp; Noble store in Manhattan, customers have to carry empty Lego set boxes to cashiers and receive the pieces after their purchase.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Pet_peeve\"><\/span>\u2018Pet peeve\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Major consumer products companies such as Procter &amp; Gamble\u00a0are annoyed \u2013 and so are shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>P&amp;G last week said it is investing in in-store displays to avoid having its razor blades stuck in glass casing, while shoppers complain the locked displays and cables slow them down and force them to find staff who can set the merchandise free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTarget has a new feature!\u201d TikTok user @manifest_makeup wrote in the caption of a video shared in September with her 20,000 followers. \u201cEverything is now behind glass just like Walmart!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"\/>Rex Freiberger, a 40-year-old Los Angeles resident, says he has noticed \u201cmore and more items\u201d placed behind plexiglass at the Walmart where he shops for holiday gifts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest pet peeve about having so many items behind locked doors is when stores don\u2019t have enough workers on the floor to help unlock those doors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Retailers\u00a0rarely openly acknowledge the threat of theft or crime because they <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly don\u2019t want to spook shoppers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-04.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A security guard stands outside a Nordstrom in Los Angeles.\" class=\"wp-image-24767170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/store-theft-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A security guard stands outside a Nordstrom in Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Target\u00a0last week\u00a0said it saw a \u201cprecipitous decline\u201d in discretionary spending and disclosed that theft could wipe out more than $600 million in gross profit this year. That represents nearly 2% of the $31 billion in gross profits it earned last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlong with other\u00a0retailers, we\u2019ve seen a significant increase in theft and organized retail crime across our business,\u201d Target CEO Brian Cornell told investors on a Nov. 16 conference call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, we\u2019re making significant investments in training and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> that can deter theft and keep our guests and store team members safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apple started posting a plainclothes security guard at its stores more often in recent weeks after thieves at a few locations stole iPhones straight out of employees\u2019 hands, a person familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>At one US store, an undercover guard roams the floor during the five busiest days of the week, up from two to three days a week a few months ago, the source said.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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