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Fighting Organized Retail Theft

Thieves waltz into a department store, fill a cart with expensive medicines, DVDs, baby formula, and other pricey items, and then slip past security and out the door. It's called organized retail theft and it costs the industry more than billion a year. Read about a new approach to the problem.
 

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