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Google takes steps to protect Android devices from theft, rolls out new features
Google is rolling out new security features for Android phones in the US to protect against theft. …
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A Walgreens employee describes routine theft at his store — and how he's not allowed to stop it
A Walgreens employee says that his manager has told him he can't question or pursue potential shopl…
Alex Bitter
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Sephora is embracing the most annoying anti-theft policy
Sephora has been locking up its perfumes to thwart off retail theft. Now, only testers are displaye…
Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins
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Anti-theft vending machines could solve one of our biggest shopping frustrations
Digital Media Vending International is proposing a solution to shoplifting and the annoyance of lo…
Gloria Dawson
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Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout and they blame anti-theft tech
When Walmart's anti-theft self-checkout tech alerts an employee of a missed scan, it can cause some…
Yeji Jesse Lee,Grace Mayer,Do…
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Fog is the latest tool retailers are deploying to fight theft
Confronted with rising concerns over smash-and-grab robberies, some US retailers are installing a l…
Dominick Reuter
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Some San Francisco Safeway stores added gates barring shoppers from leaving unless they scan a receipt. It's an anti-theft measure that has spread across the UK.
Safeway has installed receipt-scanning gates at some Safeway stores in California. The gates are al…
Alex Bitter
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How Walmart, Kroger, and other major retailers are ramping up self-checkout tech to combat theft
Companies like Walmart and Kroger are outfitting their self-checkouts with cameras, AI-enabled sens…
Dominick Reuter
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VIDEO: Target carts that lock in place are yet another example of how anti-theft measures are leaving shoppers really frustrated
By one estimate, shopping-cart theft is an $800 million annual problem, but efforts to stem losses …
Dominick Reuter
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Hyundai and Kia car thefts surged by more than 1000% since 2020 after viral TikToks exposed key security flaw, report says
The rise in thefts began after viral social media videos showed how some Kia and Hyundai models cou…
Polly Thompson
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TikTok video shows frustrated Walmart customer finding security tags and a lock box guarding $8 mascara as the retailer steps up anti-theft measures
Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, and more retailers have been sounding the alarm on theft, which has grown …
Ben Tobin
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Target CEO says thefts 'involving violence or threats of violence' have more than doubled this year so far
Target previously said inventory shrink, a measure that includes retail theft, could reach $1.2 bil…
Dominick Reuter
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Hyundai and Kia are giving away free steering wheel locks, as TikTok-inspired thefts continue
Viral TikTok videos have prompted a rise in thefts of older Kia and Hyundai models, which lack cert…
Aidan Pollard
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Rudy Giuliani pocketed $300,000 from farmers investing in anti-Biden documentary that was never made, lawsuit claims
Rudy Giuliani raised $1M for a documentary smearing Biden to help Trump win the 2020 election. The …
Mattathias Schwartz,Jack News…
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Tiktok-inspired 'Kia Boys' car thefts could be a $600 million problem, according to a new court document
Drivers seek compensation from Kia and Hyundai for lax security measures. Auto insurers' preliminar…
Jack Newsham
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Lowe's to sell power tools that won't work if they're stolen, as retailers take increasingly desperate measures to prevent theft
Lowe's will use RFID and blockchain technology to stop theft and organized retail crime. It joins H…
Ben Tobin
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With theft on the rise, these are the 'hot products' - including Spam - that drug stores are most likely to lock up
Spam is the latest item to be kept under lock and key at a New York City Duane Reade. Inflation and…
Jordan Hart
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Biden administration is ending a Trump-era 'China initiative' that critics deemed anti-Asian
The Justice Department is shifting its approach to countering Chinese national security threats as …
C. Ryan Barber
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The author of 'So You Want to Talk About Race' says a white woman's popular Instagram page with a similar name co-opted her book's success
Ijeoma Oluo's "So You Want to Talk About Race" is a bestseller. An Instagram page with a similar na…
Kat Tenbarge
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Anti-vaxxer records himself stealing a vial of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to 'investigate' in a laboratory
Thomas Humphrey shared a video of himself stealing a COVID-19 jab. He later claimed to have sent th…