Shopworkers facing ‘epidemic’ of retail crime eager for Labour to tackle shoplifting, Usdaw says
SHOPWORKERS are eager for the Labour government to deliver on its promises to tackle the growing “epidemic” of retail crime, Usdaw said today.
General secretary Paddy Lillis’s comments followed a former £300-a-day shoplifter telling the BBC how he “stole to order” from shops every day to supply other businesses in the Leeds area.
Mr Lillis said that a 30 per cent increase in shoplifting in the last year was “further evidence that we are facing an epidemic of retail crime, which is hugely concerning.”
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