Retailers ready for shoplifting season (WPTV West Palm Beach)

The holiday shopping season is right around the corner. Add that frenzy to the slumping economy and you get shoplifting. Retailers are relying on anti-theft technologies to combat the problem.

Retailers Brace for Increased Shoplifting This Holiday Season (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

BOCA RATON, Fla.----With the busiest retail shopping day of the year just over a week away, retailers and shoppers are hoping for an enjoyable holiday season. But the nation’s weakened economy has many law enforcement officials forecasting increased shoplifting and theft – crimes that could lead to lower profits for retailers and higher prices and limited selection for consumers.

Man held in Fremont shoplifting spree (The Fremont Argus)

Security guards at Fry's Electronics on Osgood Road aided in the arrest of a 28-year-old man accused of stealing items from the store on back-to-back days, police said.

Couple enters guilty pleas (Gaffney Ledger)

A shoplifting couple from Asheville, N.C., whose flight from a confrontation with a store security officer last June led police to surround stores near the Prime Outlets — Gaffney during the ensuing manhunt, pleaded guilty in separate courts Monday and Tuesday.

More security cameras sought in Flint (ABC12 Mid-Michigan)

Flint Interim Police Chief David Dicks is continuing his crusade to find sponsors for surveillance cameras in the city.