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A family-owned hardware store in California’s Bay Area had an eye-watering $700,000 in merchandise stolen in a single year — as organized retail theft runs rampant in the Democrat-run state. Dale Hardware in Fremont documented record losses in 2022 due to the brazen larceny, owner Kyle Smith told The Mercury News. He said his business loses …
Home Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal. The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door meeting on 8 March between policing minister …
Most everything is locked up but still 1 theft every 10 minutes. In San Francisco, we went to the Walgreens that is the #1 spot for theft in all the 9000 US stores, per Walgreens. This is where chains once shut the freezer section. And we saw 3 thefts right in front of us. But …
via NYPOST: Big Apple grocers who have been using facial-recognition technology to battle a citywide shoplifting epidemic are fuming over a City Council proposal that would ban the software — just as shopkeepers say it is beginning to prove effective. The proposed bill — which follows the city’s feud with Madison Square Garden owner James …
Source:https://t.co/mG9O3WOAWd — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) June 7, 2023 https://twitter.com/EssMaxx8/status/1666153269511454736 Senate Bill 553 would prohibit employers from forcing workers to confront active shoplifters and provide active shooter training to workers. via chainstoreage: The California Senate has passed a bill that would establish new workplace violence prevention standards in California. Not everyone is happy about it. …