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With inflation, shoplifting is up 14%. Traders have therefore stepped up their monitoring.
For the past few months, a small supermarket in the center of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) has been facing a growing phenomenon: several times a day, customers try to steal food. The director, ill at ease with those who cannot afford to pay, calls the police only if the situation escalates. This is rarely the case. A customer caught in the act is a delivery driver and has three children. “I try, if I see that I can take two or three things to save, I take them”he confides.
Supermarkets step up surveillance
Employees, the elderly or even students say they are forced to steal for food. With the return of inflation, the profiles of thieves would be more and more varied. Hypermarkets have had to strengthen their surveillance. In a business near Châteauroux (Indre), cashiers have been trained to detect theft. The store relies above all on a system of 40 cameras capable of zooming in to the bottom of shopping carts. “Before, the theft was really on pleasure products. Now we are on consumer products”observes the director.
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