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The Liverpool Echo carries a story of a supermarket worker who stole £10,000 worth of ink cartridges and sold them on eBay.

James Worrall also helped himself to Blu-Ray discs over the four years he worked at an ASDA store in Bootle.

One of the UK’s most prolific thieves has been jailed after bragging that he makes a £1,000-a-weekshoplifting.

Jamie Forbes has racked up more than 300 convictions and, after being stopped by a security guard at an ASDA, he boasted: “I can get a grand a week out of you lot.”

The Derby Telegraph reports that a serial shoplifter from Derby has been jailed after three thefts in a week.

Kyle Marshall targeted the same store twice in two days and a third just two days later. His first offence saw him steal cosmetics from the Newhall branch of Boots on May 9.

According to the Linlithgow Gazette, a shop assistant stole £75,000-worth of golf gear from his employer and sold it on eBay.

Ross Ewen made £27,870 selling the designer clothing online at discount prices – and squandered the cash on his gambling habit – getting away with a scam for nearly three years.

As reported in the Midweek Herald, a compulsive hoarder stole so much from a discount store where he worked, that police could barely get inside his home.

Stephen Pring stole so many beds, furniture, garden ornaments, kitchen units and electrical items from B&M in Exeter that the items filled every room of his home.

According to Gazette Live, Cleveland Police will no longer punish certain shoplifters.

The force has rolled out a new retail crime scheme – Operation Raptor – which means police officers are not automatically called to shops to deal with suspects caught stealing.