…behind to the US and ahead of the UK.
Shoplifting crimes in Japan tend to be committed mostly by school kids or youths. In my neighbourhood, the convenience store has a ban (enforced by the neighbourhood school) on school kids in uniform from my son’s public middle school. According to the local police, shoplifters from the school were caught shoplifting at the store.
FIVE COUNTRIES WORST HIT BY SHOPLIFTING *
1.US — $61 billion
2. Japan – $13.6 billion
3. UK — $11.6 billion
4. Germany — $10.3 billion
5. France — $9.7 billion
Source: Centre for Retail Research, Nottingham
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