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  2. Shoplifting - Wikipedia

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    In the retail industry, the word shrinkage (or shrink) is used to refer to merchandise often lost by shoplifting. The term five-finger discount is an euphemism for shoplifting, humorously referencing stolen items taken "at no cost" with the five fingers. The first documented shoplifting started to take place in 16th century London. By the early ...

  3. Retail loss prevention - Wikipedia

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    A uniformed retail loss prevention employee for Target. Known as a Target Security Specialist . Retail loss prevention (also known as retail asset protection) is a set of practices employed by retail companies to preserve profit. [1] Loss prevention is mainly found within the retail sector but also can be found within other business environments.

  4. Tamil Lexicon dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Tamil Lexicon (Tamil: தமிழ்ப் பேரகராதி Tamiḻ Pērakarāti) is a twelve-volume dictionary of the Tamil language. Published by the University of Madras , it is said to be the most comprehensive dictionary of the Tamil language to date.

  5. 'The bane of retail.' To prevent theft, many big chains now ...

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    The scale of merchandise theft, Kubrin added, is sometimes overblown by a retail industry happy to pin its problems, which include market forces such as inflation and a shift to online shopping ...

  6. Costco CFO: Retail theft 'not a big issue for us' - AOL

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    Inventory shrinkage — mostly the theft of merchandise — is expected to cut Target's profits by $500 million this year. In 2022, Target's profits took a $700 million hit from inventory shrinkage.

  7. Chains are using theft to mask other issues, report says - AOL

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    The analysts noted that overall shrink — merchandise losses due to external and internal theft, damaged products, inventory mismanagement and other errors — makes up just 1.5% to 2% of ...

  8. Return fraud - Wikipedia

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    Return fraud is the act of defrauding a retail store by means of the return process.There are various ways in which this crime is committed. For example, the offender may return stolen merchandise to secure cash, steal receipts or receipt tape to enable a falsified return, or use somebody else's receipt to try to return an item picked up from a store shelf.

  9. Target CEO hopes the company will eventually remove locked ...

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    Target is trying to thread the needle as it combats retail's long-running problem: store theft."I feel so much better today than I did a year ago," Target CEO Brian Cornell said in an interview ...