By Peter Wilgoren
Source: KTLA 5
If you continue to shell out more and more for groceries, one major grocery retailer says: blame the thieves.
Stop & Shop, which runs more than 300 markets across the Northeast, has penned a letter to Congress saying retailers like them are operating on ‘razor-thin’ margins and are “struggling with the vast impact of organized retail crime.”
The company is urging Congress to pass the “Combating Organized Retail Crime Act,” which has now been reintroduced.
The bipartisan legislation specifically targets flash mob robberies and what it calls ‘intricate retail theft schemes.’ It cites data from the National Retail Federation showing larceny incidents increased by 93 percent in 2023 compared with 2019. The letter says that in recent years, “criminal organizations have increasingly turned to retail crime to generate illicit profits, using internet-based tools to organize flash mobs, sell stolen goods and move money.”
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