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Huge rise in retail crime driven by gangs, not stealing to survive, says Co-op

Organised criminals have even used wheelie bins to clear shelves, executive from grocery chain tells peers

Organised criminals are behind the recent rise in shoplifting and violence against shop workers rather than people stealing to survive, one of the UK’s largest grocery chains has told a parliamentary inquiry.

Paul Gerrard, the public affairs director at the Co-op, told the House of Lords justice and home affairs committee into shoplifting that a 44% rise in retail crime it experienced last year was mostly down to gangs stealing to order at scale – clearing shelves in some cases.

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