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Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves bust into grocery store and steal $3,000 worth of food
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2025
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Major retail theft is almost always done by employees, anyway. Very intellectually lazy reporting to just drop that factoid (produced by retail stores, not independent studies) without that context.
been this way for decades or since like ever. I remember working at Best Buy in the early 00s and the primary shrink factor was internal theft not shoplifting. Hell the LP guy that stood in the front of the store with the yellow shirt spent more time watching employees than actual customers.