Retail Theft

Former NASCAR star Danica Patrick is waving the caution flag after Vice President and Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris refused to say how she voted on a major California ballot measure dealing with the scourge of drug and retail theft

Nolte: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a dumb law requiring some retailers to install panic buttons for store employees.

Police are voicing concerns about South American and Romanian crime rings from California that target small towns for “distraction thefts.”

California Democrats approved ten new bills Monday that are aimed at the state’s surge in retail theft — but which, Republicans say, do not go far enough, and fail to address 2014’s disastrous Proposition 47, which eased penalties.

Dollar General is taking drastic steps to end the retail theft that has been plaguing its stores across the nation.

The parent company of major retailer T.J. Maxx is giving its workers body cameras to try to stop shoplifting incidents, which are plaguing businesses across the nation.

New York City has had nearly 22,000 reported shoplifting incidents since the beginning of the year, up five percent from the same period in 2023.

A trendy Los Angeles boutique has garnered positive attention for the very public way it has decided to shame shoplifters.

A Target worker thwarted alleged thieves outside the store on Monday in Gloucester Township, New Jersey. 

Former President Donald Trump visited a bodega in New York City where a worker was attacked, robbed, and wrongfully prosecuted for murder by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

A Missouri man robbed an erotic store of several luxury vibrators, totaling in at more than $1,500, police say. 

A new Washington Post report has garnered backlash for blaming empty store shelves on “capitalism” and conservative-driven “moral panic.”

Authorities in West Whiteland Township, PA, are reporting clashes with organized gangs of retail thieves made up of illegal border crossers.

The Chicago suburb of Oak Brook has been beset with an increase in retail theft and burglaries over the last year, and police say the leading culprits have been recently arrived illegal border crossers who have filtered out to the suburb from Chicago.

Law enforcement and scam victims are warning consumers of an uptick in “card draining,” a form of retail theft that robs gift card holders blind.

Two more Venezuelan migrants residing in Chicago were allegedly caught stealing hundreds of dollars in merchandise from a suburban Macy’s, adding onto the ongoing plague of retail theft from foreigners pouring into the city.

New York retailers, who have lost $4.4 billion to theft, are blasting Gov. Kathy Hochul after she vetoed measures to tackle the issue.

Rampant shoplifting has driven some retailers to lock up items, which has many customers frustrated, a recent Inside Edition report found.

Target is shuttering nine stores in Democrat-run cities because of organized retail theft that threatens employee and customer safety.

Oakland store owners staged a two-hour strike on Tuesday to protest high crime and retail theft in the city.

Retailers in America are now turning to fogging machines to deter thieves from stealing thousands of dollars in merchandise.

A flash mob stole thousands of dollars in power tools from a Home Depot in Long Beach, continuing the epidemic of organized retail theft. 

On Friday’s broadcast of “The Issue Is,” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stated that the issue of retail theft in the city has “nothing to do” with a lack of consequences for crime in the city and “things like this

Three plus-sized women wobbling out of a Burlington store in Sacramento, California, with three carts full of stolen merchandise were caught on video by a concerned bystander on Saturday.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN Senior National Correspondent Kyung Lah reported on crime in San Francisco and said she witnessed three instances of theft in one Walgreens location in the city in a 30-minute time period and noted that

Criminals have been given a “licence to shoplift” in the UK as police resources are spent elsewhere, warned the head of a major retailer.

A security guard for a CVS store in Manhattan is facing murder charges for allegedly stabbing a serial shoplifter to death on Thursday, according to police.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that the challenge facing San Francisco isn’t remote work, it’s the struggle to control crime and homelessness, and “we have to do a better job of saying, if

During an interview with CNBC host Becky Quick on Monday aired on Tuesday’s edition of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Home Depot CEO Ted Decker stated that “we are increasingly concerned with some life safety of our associates and customer base” and

Four masked thieves stole $120,000 in purses from a Dior store at a Millburn, New Jersey, mall on Monday morning.

Target CEO Brian Cornell said the company expects an estimated $500 million in lost profits this year, citing organized retail theft as a primary factor.

Two men are accused of stealing $26,000 worth of baby formula from several stores in Georgia, according to police.

Swedish grocers are sounding the alarm over a recent surge in food thefts across the country, particularly meat products. 

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody hosted a press conference Tuesday and announced legislative efforts to help law enforcement and prosecutors take down retail theft rings.

Several posts displaying the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) guideline requiring taxpayers to report stolen goods as income went viral this week

The smash and grab crime wave happened upon an exotic car dealership in Chicago this weekend, where two people reportedly stole up to $1 million in merchandise.