• Enhanced Durability: Robust materials to withstand both physical tampering and environmental wear, ensuring long-term reliability.

• Tamper-Resistant Design: Designed to resist forced entry, providing additional layer of security, discouraging theft.

• Seamless Integration: Its compatibility with existing fixture styles.

• Visible Deterrence: Serves as physical barrier and psychological deterrent, reducing likelihood of theft.

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The Surge in Violent Retail Threats
Retail Violence Is Rising — and the Risks Are Expanding

By the D&D Daily staff

Retail violence continues to be a growing concern across the industry, with incidents ranging from organized theft-related confrontations to isolated acts of aggression inside stores. While theft-driven violence remains a serious and well-documented threat, many retailers are also seeing increases in aggressive behavior that does not involve theft at all.

Frontline associates are increasingly reporting verbal threats, harassment, and intimidation tied to routine interactions. Disputes over returns, pricing, product availability, or policy enforcement can escalate quickly, particularly in understaffed environments where employees are stretched thin. These incidents often occur without any intent to steal, yet they carry the same potential for harm to employees and customers.

Retailers are also paying closer attention to internal workplace violence. Staffing shortages, high turnover, and sustained pressure on store teams have contributed to heightened tensions between employees. While serious physical incidents remain relatively rare, reports of hostile behavior, threats, and confrontations among coworkers have increased in many organizations.

Loss prevention and asset protection teams are increasingly involved in addressing these risks. Historically focused on theft deterrence and external threats, LP functions are now collaborating more closely with store operations and human resources to improve de-escalation training, incident reporting, and response protocols. The goal is not only to reduce theft-related confrontations, but to manage risk across a wider range of safety scenarios.

Retailers are also refining how they track and analyze violence. In addition to theft-related incidents, many organizations are placing greater emphasis on documenting non-theft confrontations and verbal threats. These events can serve as early indicators of broader safety challenges, helping retailers identify trends related to staffing levels, store layout, or peak traffic periods.

Addressing retail violence requires a comprehensive approach. Recognizing the full spectrum of risks — both theft-related and non-theft-related — allows retailers to better protect employees, reduce liability, and create safer store environments in an increasingly challenging operating landscape.


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Organized retail crime remains a persistent threat to retailers, their employees and the communities they serve. Despite significant investments in security, training, store design and partnerships with law enforcement, retailers continue to face elevated levels of theft and violence driven by increasingly sophisticated criminal networks operating across physical, digital and international channels.

Beyond financial losses, ORC puts retail workers and shoppers at risk and forces retailers to make difficult operational decisions, including increased security measures and restricted product access. Retailers and local law enforcement across the United States are committed to maintaining safe environments, but federal support is needed to counter organized theft groups that operate beyond state and national borders.

Addressing the scale and complexity of organized retail crime requires coordinated federal action. The House Judiciary Committee’s vote on Jan. 13 to report the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (H.R. 2853/S. 1404) favorably out of committee marked a significant step toward advancing comprehensive federal solutions, moving the legislation one step closer to consideration on the House floor and passage into law.

NRF will continue pressing for the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act’s swift passage and implementation to ensure retailers and law enforcement have the tools and support necessary to protect our businesses, our workers, our customers, our communities and our national economy. nrf.com


States Continue to Battle ORC with New Laws
Organized retail crime: An expensive and growing problem
Organized retail crime is a growing and increasingly sophisticated threat impacting businesses and consumers across Arkansas and the nation, according to state officials and law enforcement leaders.

Attorney General Tim Griffin said organized retail crime costs businesses an estimated $70 billion to $100 billion annually nationwide, a cost often passed on to consumers through higher prices. The crimes can also lead to reduced store hours, job losses, or store closures, and deprive communities of sales tax revenue that funds public services.

Griffin said organized retail crime was not a major focus when he served as lieutenant governor in 2023, but it has since become a top priority. His office now has a full-time investigator dedicated to organized retail crime and participates in a multi-state partnership with Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to disrupt criminal networks that operate across state lines.

The attorney general’s office also works with local law enforcement agencies and retailers, which officials say are often the first to identify suspects and patterns of theft. Retail industry leaders say collaboration with law enforcement is critical, noting that even modest losses can have significant impacts on businesses operating on thin margins.

State officials say the fight against organized retail crime requires a coordinated approach involving local, state and federal authorities, along with private-sector partners. While enforcement efforts are increasing, authorities say the problem remains widespread and ongoing.

Two Arkansas laws are now targeting organized retail crime from nearly every angle. Act 321 allows police to add up repeat thefts across multiple stores, turning small thefts into felony charges. Act 555 goes after the entire crime ring, including organizers and fencers who profit from stolen goods. Together, these laws are designed to shut down theft networks and protect Arkansans from higher prices. fox16.com


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Some of the biggest problems facing businesses in San Jose were laid out by Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen and San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph on Wednesday. During a panel at the San Jose Chamber of Commerce, the pair discussed crime issues affecting local businesses and the city's efforts to address them.

The most prevalent crime affecting businesses is organized retail theft, which includes smash and grab crimes and serial stealers, according to Rosen. "It's horrible for the people that work in the stores, it's a horrible experience for them," Rosen said after screening footage of a San Jose smash and grab crime. "They feel powerless."

He added that when people see lawlessness without consequences they begin to lose faith in those who are supposed to protect them.

Joseph echoed that assessment, saying that while overall crime is trending downward, retail theft driven by repeat offenders continues to plague local businesses. Proposition 36, passed in late 2024, was aimed at curbing organized retail theft by imposing harsher penalties on serial offenders while mandating drug and mental health services. bizjournals.com


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The number of shoplifting incidents recorded by police rose by 5% last year, with a total of 519,381 offences logged in the Crime Survey for England and Wales for the 12 months to September 2025.

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