Is the retail wave of crime worsen?

On February 25th The draft law on crime and government police He had the first reading in the Commune Chamber. For the retail industry, the legislation will introduce a new offense of aggressing a retailer to “offer workers in stores up and down the country they need.” It will also decrease the pounds of 200 pounds for shopping.

It comes one month after the new data from the annual crime study of British Retail Consortium (BRC) found that the retail crime in the UK is at the highest registered level.

Found that Violence and abuse of retail workers It went up to more than 2,000 incidents per day in 2023/24, increasing from 1,300 a year before. The latest figure is more than three times higher than in 2020, when there were 455 incidents per day.

The BRC study – covering the period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024 – also found that the losses caused by the theft of customers reached a record of 2.2 billion pounds during that period, despite retailers spending 1.8 billion pounds for prevention.

In view of this, Drapers launches a Confidential and Anonymous Survey to find out how those who work in the fashion retail sector are affected by the crime in the storeAnd what support does the sector have to approach.