Shoplifting crisis laid bare: The brazen thieves hitting one store FOUR times a ... trends now
Shocking videos have laid bare America's $100billion-per-year shoplifting crisis, with brazen thieves strolling out of stores including Home Depot and Ross Dress for Less with their arms full of stolen goods.
Surveillance footage shows a gang of crooks wearing masks wheeling shopping carts loaded with valuable product out of a Home Depot store in New York.
Another clip showed shoplifters loading up duffel bags and backpacks with perfumes and colognes from a Ross store in Colorado.
The National Retail Federation said that the scourge - which grew worse during the pandemic - cost the industry almost $100billion in 2022.
One Ross Dress for Less manager has said that thieves are targeting her Colorado store up to four times a day.
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One thief can be seen loading goods into a sports bag as shoppers and staff look on
Footage captured at the location shows a number of thieves storming through the store filling bags with items before casually leaving.
The store manager Ashley Finley, told CBS News: 'It happens a lot. I would say that kind of incident happens four times a day.
Finley continued: 'It's company policy; we're not allowed to touch them, follow them or we are putting our job in jeopardy.
'We don't even intimidate them at this point -- they just come in here, get what they want, then they leave.
'We can't touch them, can't grab anything from their hands, can't put ourselves in jeopardy.'
Chris Howes, president of the Colorado Retail Council, said that organized retail crime is happening more and more often and is now estimated to cost Colorado retailers $1 billion a year in losses.
He told CBS: ' To have this breakdown, culturally, where people can just storm into a store and take what they want is a breakdown in civil society we need to focus on.'
Howes said much of the stolen
