Monthly Archives: September 2023

The Mail Online reports that ten of Britain’s top retailers have agreed to fund a police crackdown on shoplifting gangs.

John Lewis, Co-op, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Next are among those reportedly investing £600,000 into the operation, dubbed Project Pegasus.

As reported on the Reuters website, the Primark fashion chain joined industry calls for authorities to crack down shoplifting as its profit margins were suffering.

Also, Sharon White, chair of John Lewis Partnership said Britain is seeing an “epidemic” of shoplifting, in an interview with the BBC.

As reported on the Wales Online website, an office administrator who stole £150,000 from one of Wales’ best-known restaurants has been ordered to pay back just £1.

Nicola Nightingale managed the venue’s accounts and left it massively in debt just as the COVID pandemic hit, enlisting her husband, Simon, in the scam.

The BBC News website reports that two brothers sold more than 6,000 jars of counterfeit cranberry sauce, packaged to look like organic brand Abel & Cole.

An investigation in 2020 discovered Mohammed and Irfan Patel had sold the fake product to several businesses, one of which bought more than 1,000 cases.

According to the Yorkshire Live website, a market trader who sold fake football shirts before the 2022 World Cup has narrowly avoided jail.

Matthew Hyett – given a six-month sentence suspended for 12 months – sold the counterfeit football merchandise from his stall and online, with an estimated £70,000 loss to the industry.