shoplifting
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Opinion
Blame shoplifting scourge and blasé lawmakers
Vacant storefronts are both a sign and a cause of economic distress — and they’ve nearly doubled in the city…
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Stories
Retail workers near Carl Heastie’s NYC office constantly fear being attacked on job
Retail employees near state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s Bronx office say they are regularly forced to deal with violent armed…
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Stories
NYC retail menace Vincent Traficante called ‘one-man crime spree’ who robbed Lululemon stores 12 times this year: sources
Talk about a lemon. Cops have finally collared a prolific Manhattan retail menace who’s hit Lululemon stores a dozen times…
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Stories
eBay and Facebook Marketplace fuel NYC’s shoplifting economy
A shoplifting epidemic costing retailers in New York state $4.4 billion a year is creating a shadow re-sale economy that…
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Business
Small businesses taking extreme measures to stop shoplifters: Security expert
Some small business owners in blue cities across the US have resorted to unusual and extreme measures to combat rampant…
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Stories
NYC migrants busted in $5,300 shoplifting spree at Ulta, Macy’s and other stores: cops
Three migrants living in Manhattan’s troubled Roosevelt Hotel were busted for a New Jersey shoplifting spree where they nabbed $5,300…
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Stories
Cops fear gun use uptick after Times Square tourist shooting
NYPD cops fear the botched Times Square robbery in which a migrant teenager allegedly opened fire on a tourist and…
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Business
NYPD tests ‘old school’ tactics in the Bronx to combat shoplifting
The NYPD in the Bronx has quietly begun working more closely with small businesses as it grapples with a shoplifting…
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Stories
Brooklyn residents fuming over migrants’ ‘lawlessness’
It’s been a rude awakening for the bedroom communities near Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, ever since 2,000 migrants were moved…
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Business
Retailers take $100B hit in bogus returns
Retailers — already hard-hit by rampant shoplifting — are facing another threat to their bottom line from scammers who are…
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