Shoplifting on the rise in Cape Town | Cape Argus

Cape Town - While the annual national crime statistics released by the SAPS showed a continuing downward trend in shoplifting over the last decade, three police stations in the Cape Town area recorded an increase in incidents. Shoplifting came down from a national high of 88568 reported incidents in the 2009/2010 period to 60167 in the 2018/2019 reporting phase.

As to what drives many incidents of shoplifting, Anine Kriegler of the UCT Centre for Criminology said: “Is there a relationship between drugs and shoplifting? Yes that is very likely. Some people who use drugs struggle for various reasons to maintain stable, legitimate incomes and therefore are forced to engage in crime to survive.

As the crime stats did not break down the items that are most commonly shoplifted, crime and retailing experts filled in the blanks. Small items that can be easily concealed and which further down the line can be easily resold through informal markets are called “hot products” and these are the most targeted by shoplifters.

“What we can confirm, however, is that shoplifting represents a significant percentage of shrinkage in retail outlets which inevitably affects their bottom line,” said Abraham Nelson, Executive, Crime Risk Initiative of the CGCSA.

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