20 Sep 2023

Shoplifting in the UK is spiralling out of control with organised retail crime (ORC) being a major factor in rising theft levels and retailers struggling to detect shoplifters.

Checkpoint Systems, a pioneer in advanced electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems and RFID-based inventory management, attributes the crisis to a “perfect storm” of rising living costs driven by inflation, supply chain challenges, and some retailers’ slow adoption of loss prevention technology.