Column: The Last Thing We All Want to Do Is Upset the Shoplifters Isn't It?

Shopkeeper told to remove sign calling thieves 'scumbags'

Shop theft became such a problem for Rob Davies that he decided to put a poster up in his window informing customers. He was 'flabbergasted' by what happened next

Don’t Put Expensive Items at Front of Stores, Labour Tells Shopkeepers – The Daily Sceptic

Shopkeepers are to blame for the rise in shoplifting, according to Labour's policing minister, who says they should keep items that "obviously people will nick" out of reach.

Column: The last thing we all want to do is upset the shoplifters isn't it?

You have to pick your words carefully. That’s a lesson shopkeeper Rob Davies learned recently, says writer and comedian Steve N Allen.

Why won’t the police let us call shoplifters ‘scumbags’?

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The most offensive thing about shoplifting isn’t the word ‘scumbag’

It takes a particular kind of brass neck to walk into someone else’s shop, past the carefully arranged displays, past the person who opened up early that morning, and help yourself to their livelihood. No payment. No thanks. Just a pocket full of stolen goods and the quiet confidence that you’ll probably get away with it. And in the twenty seconds it has taken you to read this, another shoplifter will have done exactly that. In each minute the s…

Is it ok to call shoplifters scumbags?

UK police told a shopkeeper to remove a sign calling shoplifters scumbags because it could cause offence.