Retailers estimate three in five shoplifted items end up being sold online.
A shopkeeper has revealed how he turned detective to track down a shoplifter after discovering goods stolen from his business for sale online.
The National Police Chiefs Council advises online shoppers to think carefully about whether something which appears to be a bargain is "too good to be true". In the days after the theft Mr Groves went online and found a Jellycat hedgehog like the one stolen from him being sold on resale site Vinted.Mr Groves tracked down the Vinted account owner on Facebook and discovered he was married to a woman who looked like the same person he'd seen on the Groves Garden Centre CCTV footage stealing toys. The woman's name on Facebook was very similar to the personalised number plate on the shoplifter's car.
The woman's husband denies knowing any stolen items were being advertised for sale on his Vinted account. Shoplifting is at record levels with 469,788 offences recorded in England and Wales in the year to June 2024, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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