More than 80 retail leaders – including bosses of some of Yorkshire’s biggest businesses – have joined forces to call for tougher legal action on thefts from retail stores and increasing violence towards workers.
"We are seeing a torrent of abuse aimed at hardworking shop staff. It’s simply unacceptable – no one should have to go to work fearing for their safety."We need to see a standalone offence for assaulting or abusing a retail worker – as exists in Scotland. We need Government to stand with the millions of retail workers who kept us safe and fed during the pandemic – and support them, as those workers supported us.
It comes after a BRC Crime Survey found that incidents of violence and abuse towards retail colleagues had almost doubled on pre-pandemic levels to 867 incidents every day in 2021/22. It also put the scale of retail theft at £953m, despite over £700m in crime prevention spending by retailers. This meant the total cost of retail crime stood at £1.76bn for the 12-month period to April.
Aa separate BRC survey of members in 2023 found that levels of shoplifting in ten major cities had risen by an average of 27 per cent.
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