Security staff say desperation at high cost of living is pushing people ‘to something they’ve never done before’

Food retailers have seen a “massive” increase in pensioner shoplifters over the last year, a security firm has said.

John Nussbaum, director of service for retail at Kingdom Security, said his staff were seeing a “different sort of shoplifter now” as the cost of living “pushes people to something they’ve never done before”.

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    He added: “Retailers don’t tend to involve the police when they’re dealing with pensioners. Stores tend to want to handle it on their own.

    “It’s not good publicity for a supermarket if it got out that a pensioner had been handed over to the police for shoplifting.”

    Sounds like the numbers could be higher then, if it’s not getting reported.

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    But at least UK is free of the EU bureaucracy