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The wave of “entitled” Shoplifters Blighting pretty city on the coast, where the traumatized staff has been threatened with hammers and a trader loses 26 pounds a year

The wave of “entitled” Shoplifters Blighting pretty city on the coast, where the traumatized staff has been threatened with hammers and a trader loses 26 pounds a year

It is one of the favorite cities on the Britain’s coast, but the retailers in Tenby, Pembrokeshire have been fiery by buyers who threaten staff and steal thousands of kilograms.

Fiona Malone, who owns Tenby Stores and Post Office, revealed that her only store loses on average £ 26,000 a year.

It comes as ONS reveals that Shoplifting has only jumped 23 % in the last year, and traders from all over the country warn that they are not just ordinary suspects.

Fiona said that the thieves in her store are from children from 12 or 13 years to elderly – one at 85 – who take what they want without paying.

“It could seem funny, but it is not for the people at the other end -it is encrypting.

“What we find is when we face these thieves, many of them do not seem to realize how bad our business affects.

“Now there seems to be a kind of right.

“It’s almost as if people think it’s okay.

The wave of “entitled” Shoplifters Blighting pretty city on the coast, where the traumatized staff has been threatened with hammers and a trader loses 26 pounds a year

Fiona Malone revealed her Tenby stores, and the post office loses on average 26,000 pounds a year

Partner Fiona, Vince, was recently hit for trying to stop a thief leaving the store with stolen goods

Partner Fiona, Vince, was recently hit for trying to stop a thief leaving the store with stolen goods

Fiona said that most thieves when she is facing

Fiona said that most thieves when she is facing “do not seem to realize how bad this affects our business”

Fiona led the store in the chocolate resort – loved for her wide sandy beaches, independent stores and coast houses decorated in pastel shades – with her partner Vince since she moved from St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 2011.

She said, “Don’t think about it when you come here – I didn’t do it when I came to Tenby.

“When we first moved here, you would never have thought it would be so bad.

“I remember when we first moved here, in 2011, the local paper would have pages in which the titles would be about bicycles taken in front of people’s homes before being found on a few streets.

“This was the extent of local” crime “, but it is no longer the case.

“We were terrified.”

“As things started to return to normal after Copid, we started to observe things that are missing from the shelves.

“We would do a check of stocks, we will go through our CCTV, identify certain models -and shocked us to see the granular details of what was stolen.

“Alcohol was a major article, and pet food was different.

“We realized that we are losing around 26,000 pounds a year to shop.”

There were 493,000 shopping offenses registered by the police in England and Wales last year, increasing from 402,000 in the previous year.

Tenby is loved for its wide sandy beaches, independent stores and coast houses decorated in pastel shades

Tenby is loved for its wide sandy beaches, independent stores and coast houses decorated in pastel shades

Fiona said

Fiona said “Don’t think about it when you come here”, but shopping is an growing epidemic in the city

Although the recent Dyfed-Powys police figures showed that there was 12 % increase in the region, with 2,161 offenses registered in the first nine months last year.

This compared with 1,938 offenses for the same time period of the previous year.

Fiona, whose store is also the only physical bank service in the city, said that her husband was attacked trying to defend the store.

“Recently, Vince challenged a thief in the store and then was hit.

– The guy said then: “Why do you stop me?

“People believe it is a crime without victims.

“This seems to be an important problem here.

“People seem to believe that shops are like Tesco and Sainsbury and they can only absorb the costs and everything is incorporated in our prices, but it is not.

Fiona has drove the store with her partner Vince since she moved from St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 2011

Fiona has drove the store with her partner Vince since she moved from St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 2011

Fiona said:

Fiona said, “People seem to believe that shops are like Tesco and Sainsbury and they can only absorb the costs and everything is incorporated in our prices, but it is not.”

Vince and Fiona are considered one of the

Vince and Fiona are considered one of the “lucky ones”, because other merchants were “assaulted, threatened with hammers and had people who skip their counters”

“It is very frustrating that independent enterprises that people think they are doing this.

“I worked before in Sainsbury, as I had Vince, so we were aware of this type of things happened, but certainly never to this extent.

“Many people tell me that this is due to the costs of the crisis of life, but I do not think this because what is stolen from us is alcohol and objects of great value

“Do not steal bread and eggs.”

Fiona said that they have now invested in security measures to help approach Crimewave, including AI technology.

She said: “It will often record people, for example, taking an article from the shelf and puts it in your bag.

“It’s okay if they come to and get everything and pay, but I got a lot of terrible people who think it’s good to put everything in their pockets and leave the store.

“It was very effective.

“We make a point to explain to each person as we caught them.

“Unfortunately, what we find now is that we are one of the lucky ones, because this is not a case of theft just for many.

“Some of my colleagues were assaulted, threatened with hammers and had people who skip their counters.

“He left the traumatized staff.”

Sara Jones, the head of the Welsh retail consortium, said: “Theft now costs Gaze Retail 100 million pounds a year, which leads to customers who have to face both higher prices and more uncomfortable shopping. , because retailers must mitigate the costs and contraction resulting from this criminal behavior.

“It is not acceptable that the retail staff in Wales must work in this climate of fear.

“While the recent budget announcement of £ 3 million to help combat retail crime is a good start, reality is a much greater effort in the entire criminal justice system to obtain this situation under control and to to protect workers and customers. ”