Category Archives: Shoplifting

According to the Express website, Emma Berry, the Boots pharmacy chain has banned a woman, Emma Berry, who struggles with addiction to crack cocaine, from all its stores across the UK.

This comes after Berry repeatedly targeted and stole cosmetics from a Boots shop in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, a total of eight times.

The Novara Media website reports that shoplifters have told them that the cost of living [CoL] crisis had pushed them to steal more of life’s essentials.

Last year, food industry magazine The Grocer reported that shoplifting levels – especially of everyday essentials – were “off the charts”, and prices have only climbed since then.

According to The Sun website, the Cost of Living Crisis [COLC] has seen hard-up Brits getting hooked on the ‘high’ of shoplifting and are unable to stop themselves.

Staff at the UK Addiction Treatment Group have seen an “astronomical” rise in people seeking help with shoplifting addiction.

The Leicester Mercury website reports that a serial shoplifter stole more than £500,000 in a crime spree that took her to towns and cities across the country.

Narinder Kaur operated on an ‘industrial scale’, with her scam seeing her trick retail staff into handing over refunds for items she had never even bought.

The North Wales Live website reports that a “professional shoplifter” stole over £27,000 worth of alcohol from various Asda and Tesco stores across the UK.

Cristian Miron – working with accomplices – entered the supermarkets, filled a trolley with boxes of alcohol, and, whilst staff were distracted, the trolley was brought out to a waiting car.

According to the Mirror website, honey containers were fitted with the anti-theft device at a Tesco Express store in North West London, including Tesco’s organic squeezy clear honey, which costs £3.85.

The cost of living crisis has led to a rise in shoplifting, with recent research finding that 34% of UK adults had stolen something using a self-scanning till.