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The Daily Mirror has dubbed 2023 The Year of the Shoplifter’ The CEO of the John Lewis Partnership , Dame Sharon White , last week described shoplifting in the UK as an epidemic.
Nearly 850 incidents are taking place every day , costing British retailers around 1 billion per year.
Of the 340,000 cases recorded by police last year , fewer than 50,000 resulted in a charge.
Many on the left have greeted these revelations with a shrug.
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