Pound Shops Targeted By Thieves

Monday, 27th May 2024 at 11:36am

The Independent website reports that one in ten independent shops lost more than £10,000 to shoplifting in the last two years.

And, according to the Federation of Small Businesses, even pound shops are having to install new security measures to head off losses in the thousands.

One such shop owner in Bristol, John Bebbington, said, “Whereas before people would walk in and look suspicious, and spend ages in the shop, now they literally walk in, pick up what they want to steal and walk out.”

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