All Crime articles – Page 9
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News
Meat scandal: FSA CEO warns local authority cuts affecting food safety
Emily Miles suggested a fall in the number of local authority officials was affecting the integrity of supply chains
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Analysis & Features
Is the Food Standards Agency and its National Food Crime Unit fit for purpose?
With the industry far from certain how deep the meat fraud scandal runs, serious questions have been raised about how it has been dealt with
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News
Media Bites 31 March: Morrisons, Ocado, Planet Organic
Quarterly sales at Morrisons returned to growth for the first time in two years
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Fraud-linked meat supplier Loscoe Chilled Foods placed into administration
The supplier was linked a fortnight ago to a National Food Crime Unit probe into the passing off of imported beef as British
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Shop theft reaches record highs across convenience sector
Of the areas worst affected across the UK, London was at the top, with 48% of retailers saying theft had increased over the past year
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Analysis & Features
Why was beef fraud investigation not disclosed earlier?
“Who else has Loscoe supplied with falsely labelled beef” asks Chris Elliott
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Analysis & Features
Britain’s cargo theft crisis: why crime is rising on UK roads
Food is at an ever growing risk of theft, as criminals seek ‘low risk, high reward’ targets. And retailers and manufacturers are playing into their hands
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News
Loscoe Chilled Foods confirms it is part of beef fraud investigation
The supplier stressed the incident was isolated with ’no suggestion that any other customers are affected’
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News
Violence and abuse against shopworkers remains above pre-pandemic levels
According to retail trade union Usdaw 74% have experienced verbal abuse, 49% were threatened by a customer, and 8% were assaulted over the past year
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Crime against shopworkers almost doubles on pre-pandemic levels
The BRC said it will continue to work with Police and Crime Commissioners across the country to advocate for retail crime to have a higher priority
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News
Retailers face up to £1m fines for underage knife sales under new sentencing guidelines
This is the first time magistrates’ courts will have specific guidelines for sentencing this offence, which is prosecuted by Trading Standards
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Analysis & Features
Homeless to hired: taking a chance on different candidates
Homeless people, prison leavers, and veterans are often out of work due to a mix of stigma and circumstance. Now companies are looking to change that
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Reports
How the cost of living crisis has revitalised illicit tobacco trade
Shadow economy sales have been a long-running problem for tobacco
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News
Food safety at ‘huge risk’ as EU laws set to expire
Food safety laws carried over from the EU are set to be scrapped on 31 December under post-Brexit legislation
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News
Battered supply chains put food and drink at highest theft risk
Supply chain volatility has opened the floodgates for ‘opportunistic crime’
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Comment & Opinion
Hilarious, disastrous and frankly outrageous moments that shaped 2022
A year of political chaos, war, strikes, egg shortages, fevered cost price increase negotiations
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Analysis & Features
How to improve self-checkouts… according to store staff
Supervisors offer incredibly useful feedback on how to make them work better for customers, staff and the bottom line
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News
FWD partners with Met Police to raise awareness of cash & carry crime
Wholesalers already take extensive steps to prevent crime on their premises, including employing security guards and dog patrols in vulnerable areas
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News
Filippo Berio victim of £5k olive oil theft from distribution lorry
The business has asked for anyone who is offered its Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil under suspicious circumstances to get in touch
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News
Police face new call to tackle rising tide of shoplifting and violence against staff
A letter signed by more than 100 retail bosses cites rising levels of abuse and anti-social behaviour across their operations