According to Capital One, stores lost $112.1 billion to retail theft in 2022; projections indicate shoplifting could cost retailers over $140 billion in 2025.
- Shoplifting losses grew 19.4% year-over-year; as a share of retail sales dollars, losses to theft increased 10.5%.
- 58% of organized retail crime is cargo theft.
- Stores catch shoplifters roughly 2.0% of the time; the average shoplifter is arrested once out of every 100 incidents.
- Retailers lost $84.9 billion in fraudulent sales returns in 2022.
- The average shoplifting incident cost retailers $461.86 in 2020.
Biden’s FBI recently gaslighted that the demographics for these crimes are rich, young, white females. These girls must have removed their hoodies just for the photo.
Someone on Twitter had a little fun with the photo.
