Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore eighteenth‐century London retailers' attitudes to shoplifting and … transcripts of shoplifting prosecutions at London's highest criminal court, the Old Bailey. Findings – The paper reveals that …. Originality/value – This is the first study of shoplifting prevention in this period. It analyses retailer practice and …

was seen as the most important crime cost, followed by employee theft, security costs and supplier theft. Stores … was perceived to be caused by “internal error” rather than crime and this estimate is deducted from shrinkage to derive … the crime figure. Retail crime cost retailers €30,407 million ($27,670 million). In contrast to US data, customer theft …

underexplored compared with shoplifting. The purpose of this paper is to assess the impacts of different forms of staff theft and … fraud upon retail crime losses and analyse the characteristics of offenders. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is … the significance of perceived staff theft on losses from crime. Only a small percentage of staff offenders were caught by …

retailers a general security strategy of containing consumer theft and actively driving down other “unaccounted” stock losses …