European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1977 a reporter demonstrates shoplifting technique in department j Norwich can1 stand to Lei a thief gel if i let somebody get away f get sick for a and cant she ill go to great extremes to catch a accosting a Man 6 feet 7 inches tall with a casual hey you want to come with me and pay for that being struck in the having a knife pulled on being beaten by a 78yearold woman a pocketbook while being accused of mugging her those Are the events of a Days work for she is a Mother of two who to 5 feet 3 inches z years old and is in assistant Security manager for alexanders in new Norwich got her chasing shoplifters at kor where she was a she had to Stop shoplifters because Security guards never got there in she was promoted to assistant manager at alexanders about five months and at first did not want the promotion Bhe she liked the action on the Norwich and her staff if eight must actually tee shop alter More Lake and conceal before they can move they Wall for a thief to leave the store before stopping to make a belter Case id wort at the hushing Branch of alexanders where she Norwich has a reputation for always getting her she once chased a Man up a he was stealing there were three Guys and they split up once they Fiat out of the the Guy with the sweatsuits dropped so we got the but i Norwich commandeered a customers car and chased the Man to Flushing High she then pursued him on foot until he up a Large t went up to the tree and said there Are two ways you can come you can come Down yourself or i can shake the tree until you be begged me not to and he came Down and we arrested alexanders apprehends to a year at its 14 brandies in the metropolitan Accord ing to Albert former chief of detectives for the new York City police department and now the stores chief of he said that the stores policy of 100 per cent prosecution and its training of such personnel As Norwich had helped to decrease be loss caused by shop theft remains major a ibb report it limited that fir one is get re Lallen say they Low a Iii a year Taro agh a Menefi crimes and thai about per cent of that Mill Doe to the cuts of theft and Cutty re passed on u the remaining loss is due to inventory and shipping errors and to internal a problem Security managers do not like to talk about but which May Cost stores More Money than shop lifting one Large retail store reported to the department of con Nerce that us loss Doe to employee Teft was seven times that due to theft by the metropolitan new York Hemlall mercy Sfritto a soda whose members an the z largest department Flora in the estimates that in the Chy More than shoplifters Are apprehended to shop lifters can be professionals who make Uriel a living or they can be Rafes Siauau win study a stores procedures and floor looking far weak amateurs Are divided into two categories by store there arc who steal Contin Emisly and sell the merchandise to a and there who steal on impulse items for their per has More than doubled us Exchange detective staff Over the past but defects Only about one of every 10 according to Roger director of the Safe Europe he safety and Security office in the first four Mon Hal of cafes fiscal year february May Safe Europe detected an in crease of 38 per cent Over the my shoplifters detected in the correspond Long period last Carson reported that Worth of merchandise was known to have been lost to shoplifters Lii the feb Niar May w1 of which in merchandise was Reco vend from the Soi detected Many of the losses i Are reflected Only in the annual invent tidy Carson hated the known Dollar loss from employee theft in a recent annual breakdown a with Only one employee theft be detectors Are not used to establish honesty of the safety and Security office director added that Safe Europe continually employees in shoplift a Many Euh Ange facilities have installed two Way mirrors to assist Exchange by professionals la of Dowhen near a Btu As said kids Are us a biggest with a 14yearold kid who Haino store detectives watching for thieves look for certain a Normal shopper will took at the merchandise a shoplifter will around the or throw Nur Wlch the dem tits also look for Large Loose Coats or groups of Young often work to one creating a the other Lite More sophisticated shoplifters May Wear Booster double girdles worn Over the pants and under a they May have books in their coals or carry with sliding nto which stolen goods can be i the its like a game of said to Wear you out by doming in a lot of times and not taking when they think youre Pmj fluff hot intr Ltd sew York say that one rents has a Doc Trode Witler Tomt at to had to Only a i Stltt Crit out remove it the Wiler sets All q alarm Ubea it b the problem with shoplifting is thai Many people think its a that its not redly sail Jack l Abraham it Straus corporate Security we make snout ten Nave Contact with the and the police and it Baa a great deterrent 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