Merchants Adopt Color Coded Hangers to Fight Shoplifting
Retail stores employ color and number coded hangers to track how many garments customers take to fitting rooms. The scheme targets a fraud that costs about 4.8 billion dollars in annual merchandise losses nationwide.
Rising shoplifting nationwide and local rise in cases
National figures show shoplifting reaching about 4.8 billion dollars in annual losses nationwide, with a daily ten million dollar rate. Local police report a slight uptick in shoplifting, while Twin Cities thefts have not clearly risen, and officials acknowledge the crime persists.
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