"INVISIBLE" LOSSES
CHILDREN ACCOMPLICES
The Drapers' Chamber of Trade is to place before the Home Secretary evidence of an alarming increase in shoplifting in England, says the "Sunday Dispatch." In many stores "invisible"'losses have doubled during the last twelve months. .'...!
One firm with a turnover of £1,000,000 a year discovered at a re-, cent stocktaking that £30,000 worth of goods had vanished without trace.! Shoplifters are blamed. Reports from, drapers all over the country show that' thi increase is not confined to any one' district. ' ,
In a number of cases recently child-; ren have confessed, when caught, that if they went home empty-handed they would be given a thrashing. Even babies—in large prams—are used as accomplices by women, who put articles ii> the pram arid cover them with the' baby's blanket. In some cases the babies have been borrowed specially for the expedition.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 15
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143"INVISIBLE" LOSSES Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 15
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