There were half a million shoplifting offences in the UK last year. What more do you think shops could do about this?
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00:00I think it depends on the shop so independent shops obviously that's a terrible crime it's
00:07very unfair but also at the other end of the spectrum we have big big business big corporations
00:14I personally I feel that price-jacking is a thing they're making their products too expensive I mean
00:18the one that really made me laugh was the other day was that there are some places I think it's
00:23Poundland but there's some places put a cardboard cutter out of a policeman and apparently that's a
00:28deterrent they've actually proved statistically that the number of shoplifting offenses goes down
00:34when they just put a cardboard cutter again it's a really tricky one I think the shops probably need
00:40the more support as well because I guess you know fewer large enough to be able to employ door
00:46security and you know it's often the you know it's again a sign of rising kind of economic crisis when
00:53when people turn to shoplifting so it's probably a question again of external assistance