Sentences with phrase «shoplifting costs»

In any event, the form letter goes on to assert that retailers estimate shoplifting costs exceed $ 4.0 billion and include in this calculation «the cost of apprehension, documentation and inventory control, and loss of sales opportunities.»

Experts estimate that shoplifting costs retailers billions of dollars each year.

Shoplifting cost American retailers $ 11.7 billion in 2009, representing about 35 % of the industry's «shrink» — inventory lost to theft and error — and costing the average retailer about 1.5 % of profits.

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Ct.) in which The Bay made a claim to recover surveillance, investigation and apprehension costs arising from a shoplifting incident.

The letter «demand [ed][the mother] pay $ 379 to help defray the cost of shoplifting or face the consequences, threatening a civil lawsuit for as much as $ 900.»