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 | General retail stores have the highest incidence of unarmed robbery of any retail industry type. | | | | | Retail stores also have the second highest incidence of burglary, shoplifting, cheque and credit card fraud and assaults. | | | | | 57% of all retail stores have suffered some form of retail crime and they suffer 20% of all retail crimes. | | | | | There are ten times the numbers of retail stores that have experienced shoplifting more than once, than those that have experienced it just once. | | | | | Retail stores suffer 22% of all shoplifting crimes. | | | | | General retail storeowners and/or staff suffer the third highest rate of armed robberies, as well as theft of motor vehicles and theft from motor vehicles. | | | | | 31% of all general retail stores have been burgled and 13% have been burgled more than once. | | | | | For every one retail store that has suffered cheque and/or credit card fraud once, three have experienced it more than once. | | | | | Five retail stores have experienced vandalism more than once, for every one retail store that has suffered vandalism just once. | | | | | More than any other retail industry type, retail stores have a propensity to suffer vandalism, cheque/credit card fraud and especially shoplifting on a repetitive basis. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 September 2009 )
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