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Shoplifting, Shrinkage, Customer and Employee Theft Guide - Stop Shoplifting

Retailing Tips to Prevent Shoplifting, Understand Shoplifters, and Spot Signs

Shoplifting, shrinkage, and both customer and employee theft are problems for all retailers in every size of retail store. Find information about how to prevent shoplifting, spotting shoplifters, recognizing signs of merchandise theft, and ideas for how to stop shoplifting in this complete shoplifting guide.

1. How to Respond to Opportunistic and Organized Shoplifting - Theft Prevention

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There are two different types of shoplifting - opportunistic shoplifting and organized shoplifting. These two different approaches to merchandise theft require different store security strategies to effectively prevent and stop the shoplifters. Get information about opportunistic shoplifters and organized shoplifting rings, and how to deal with both.

2. Shoplifting Education Lesson Plan for Schools, ESL Classes, or Employee Training

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This shoplifting education lesson plan provides a basic shoplifting education framework for schools, ESL classes, or employee training programs. Get a step-by-step shoplifting classroom facilitation plan here which teaches participants what shoplifting is and what the consequences are. This shoplifting education lesson plan includes a discussion of whether shoplifting is always wrong, as well as participatory activities and role play.

3. What To Do If Your Teenager Gets Caught Shoplifting - Parents Do's and Don'ts

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When a teenager gets caught shoplifting, parents don't always know what to do or how to respond. This article provides tips on the the do's and don'ts for how to best respond to teenage shoplifting, how parents make the situation even worse with their teens, and how to prevent teenagers from shoplifting in the future.

4. Serial Shoplifting Seagull Provides Entertainment to Victimized Retailer

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Serial shoplifting is not a laughing matter unless the thief is a seagull and the victimized retailer sees the crime as a source of daily entertainment. Read the story of the Dorito stealing seagull in England and how customers and other birds are covering the tracks of the stick-beaked bird.

5. Crime Poll - Should Shoplifters Get a Life Sentence for Repeated Theft Crimes?

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After stealing two purses from Dillard's, a shoplifter in Oklahoma was sentenced to life in prison. Read the details about this shoplifter and the reasoning behind the extraordinary sentence in this article. Take the shoplifting poll and see whether other voters think a life sentence is fair punishment for serial shoplifters.

6. Famous Gold Medal Olympic Gymnast Shoplifting Arrest - Shoplifter Olga Korbut?

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Among the celebrities who have been arrested for shoplifting is Olga Korbut, the Olympic gold medal winner who is best know for her gymnastic back flip trick on the uneven parallel bars. Find out information about Olga Korbut's shoplifting arrest and other criminal trouble in her family in this article.

7. Shoplifting and Borderline Personality Disorder - Impulsive Shoplifting Causes

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Impulsive shoplifting behavior is sometimes associated with a psychological ailment called Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Get information about BPD and what causes some people do engage in impulsive shoplifting, and get insight about how to deal with a BPD shoplifter in a public retail setting.