{"id":84046,"date":"2026-02-24T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/criminals-systematically-targeting-uk-shops-costing-400m-last-year-say-retailers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T08:00:09","slug":"criminals-systematically-targeting-uk-shops-costing-400m-last-year-say-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/criminals-systematically-targeting-uk-shops-costing-400m-last-year-say-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminals \u2018systematically\u2019 targeting UK shops, costing \u00a3400m last year, say retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3c81f1a2f4604b95b7f7a0830ff8d46fd2a96a0e\/1028_0_4854_3884\/master\/4854.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=2a4fe3c08a19726cb855c2e6efa838de\" alt=\"Criminals \u2018systematically\u2019 targeting UK shops, costing \u00a3400m last year, say retailers\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Criminals \u2018systematically\u2019 targeting UK shops, costing \u00a3400m last year, say retailers<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">British Retail Consortium warns over \u2018endemic\u2019 violence towards shop workers and says theft is causing anxietyCriminal gangs are \u201csystematically\u201d targeting shops, retailers have warned, with 5.5m incidents of shoplifting detected last year, costing the industry an estimated \u00a3400m.The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has warned over \u201cendemic\u201d violence towards shop workers \u2013 who faced an average 36 incidents of violence involving a weapon every day last year \u2013 and said high levels of theft was causing \u201canxiety\u201d among retail staff. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/24\/criminals-uk-shops-british-retail-consortium-violence-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Criminals \u2018systematically\u2019 targeting UK shops, costing \u00a3400m last year, say retailers British Retail Consortium warns over \u2018endemic\u2019 violence towards shop workers and says theft is causing anxietyCriminal gangs are \u201csystematically\u201d targeting shops, retailers have warned, with 5.5m incidents of shoplifting detected last year, costing the industry an estimated \u00a3400m.The British Retail Consortium (BRC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":84047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}