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The BBC News website reports that an Asda worker stole more than £26,000 over a three-month period, by creating fake refunds.

Aaron Hughes – jailed for a year – used the money to pay for “luxury” shopping trips to Harrods and Selfridges and holidays.

The Retail Gazette website writes that employees account for 40% of the value of theft across UK retailers, according to new research from Retail Economics and Thruvision. Two-thirds of respondents thought financial pressure due to the cost-of-living crisis had led to a rise in theft by distribution centre staff over the past year. Staff working …

The Belfast Telegraph reported that a local man has admitted to stealing more than £3,000 of Lego during a three-month shoplifting spree.

In 11 separate incidents, Peter Stewart stole the popular children’s toy from a range of shops including Tesco, B&M and Smyths Toys Superstores.

As reported on the Manchester Evening News website, an accountant stole more than £35,000 from her employer and gifted large cash sums to her family.

Sarah Cunningham’s fraudulent actions ‘left a trail of destruction’ which resulted in at least five other members of staff being made redundant.

In a comment piece in the Guardian, a lack of real-life service at store checkouts has helped fuel the current shoplifting crisis, even amongst the middle classes.

The M&S chairman has said, “With the reduction of service you get in a lot of shops, a lot of people think: ‘This didn’t scan properly, or it’s very difficult to scan these things through and I shop here all the time, it’s not my fault, I’m owed it.’”

As reported in The Sun, a Tesco delivery driver had to pay damages to his employer after deliberately crashing his van so his friends could claim compensation.

Donovan Rose sparked an investigation after reversing his work van into a parked Mercedes, having been warned by bosses after three other crashes.