Organized retail crime has ballooned into a $100 billion problem — and store employees are dying over it
since 2019. And everyone from retailers to the federal government and law enforcement is trying to stop it. These crimes aren't as simple as a lone shoplifter pocketing a product. Instead, criminal organizations stealing large quantities of goods and reselling them for profit perpetrate them.
Retailers like Target, Walmart, Home Depot, Walgreens, and more have called out retail theft as a threat to their businesses. Eight out of 10 retailers in the study said these crimes have become violent andSpencer Platt/Getty ImagesOrganized retail crime is not the $10,000 jewelry heist you see in the movies, Jake Stauch, the director of product for the security company Verkada, said.
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