In a 5-2 ruling, the court said Thursday that shoplifting under Proposition 47 does not just refer to taking merchandise from a store.

Walmart's push to crack down on shoplifting at self-checkout counters with anti-theft technology has led to a surge in "hostile" encounters between hourly workers and shoppers, according to a report.

It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway.

Proposition 47 made shoplifting a misdemeanor. The state attorney general's office had argued for a narrower shoplifting definition. An email to the office was not immediately returned.

Organized theft rings "are not the kind of shoplifters officials have in mind when they thoughtfully enact policies of decriminalization," writes one reader.

The Atlanta Police Department wants thieves to know they are back in business when it comes to responding to a shoplifting complaint.

Mentions of retail theft seem to be fading, their fever pitch cooling. What's changed? And how bad was the problem in the first place?

OPINION Four years ago, Mayor Wu said shoplifters shouldn’t be prosecuted. Now shoplifting is up in Boston. Funny how that works. Stores have put goods behind lock and key, which is why you have ...

A national lobbying group has retracted its startling estimate that “organized retail crime” was responsible for nearly half the $94.5 billion in store merchandise that disappeared in 2021, a ...

In Jobson v DPP [2025] EWHC 1385 (Admin), the High Court confirmed that low-value shoplifting offences remain indictable—and thus exempt from summary time limits—until a court determines otherwise, ...