Data: A quarter of shoppers witnessed shoplifting last year

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has warned that shoplifting has become “all-too-common” as it found that over 16 million customers have witnessed shoplifting across the UK in the last 12 months.
Nottingham and London were the two cities where incidents of shoplifting were witnessed by the highest percentage of shoppers, ranking at 32% and 29% respectively.
Across the UK overall, 24% of shoppers have witnessed an incident of shoplifting over the past year.
Survey data from the BRC