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23.09.2023 - 06:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Last week the owner of a newsagents in Rochdale town centre, was assaulted as he tried to stop two shoplifters stealing vapes from behind the counter.
"They just came in and grabbed what they could," the 54-year-old, who gives his name only as Mr Hussain, says.
"One of them pushed me in the shoulder. It's been hurting ever since.
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The man and the woman made off with around £100 worth of e-cigs. They came back, a short while later, took a drink from the fridge and a bar of chocolate from the shelf and walked out again without paying.
It was just the latest in a number of thefts Mr Hussain has experienced in recent months. "I'd say it's [shoplifting] doubled or trebled since covid," he says.
"They come in and take a bag of crisps, or a bar of chocolate and just walk out. The other day someone came in, asked for 20 Bensons. I put them on the counter and he just picked them up and walked off without paying.
"I just leave them to it. What would happen if I tried to stop them and one of them pulled a knife? I'm just here trying to make a living.
"I have a family, a mortgage. I have everything to lose and they have nothing to lose."
Mr Hussain is not alone. Last week Dame Sharon White, the chair of John Lewis Partnership, which owns John Lewis and Waitrose, said shoplifting in the UK was an 'epidemic'. She told BBC's Today programme the retailer had seen offences double over the past 12 months.
Co-op said it had recorded its highest-ever levels of shoplifting and antisocial behaviour in the six months to June, with almost 1,000 incidents each day. According to the British Retail Consortium shop thefts have more than doubled in the past
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