Notice anything different on your trip to the store? More retailers are putting common household items behind lock and key. Target reports it will lose a half-billion dollars to theft this year. How SoCal stores are fighting back. Tonight at 11 from ABC7
on a recent earnings call that it had lost $400 million more in gross profit this year - so far - to retail theft, in comparison to last year. And the figure will likely hit more than $600 million for the full year.The state of California, acknowledging the new disturbing trend, recently announced aGov. Gavin Newsom's office says there will be more CHP patrols around major shopping areas.
Other new state efforts seek to make it harder to sell stolen goods online and provide more funds to local agencies, such as district attorney officers, to prosecute retail crime.
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