{"id":85436,"date":"2026-02-24T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85436"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:44:10","slug":"crisis-as-uk-shoplifting-epidemic-hits-400m-in-just-1-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/24\/crisis-as-uk-shoplifting-epidemic-hits-400m-in-just-1-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis as UK shoplifting epidemic hits \u00a3400m in just 1 year"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WWAy6.img?w=534&amp;h=302&amp;m=6\" alt=\"CCTV shows 15-strong teen gang batter shopkeeper to steal vapes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s out-of-control shoplifting epidemic saw thieves steal at least \u00a3400million-worth of goods from store shelves with a staggering 5.5million recorded incidents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/crisis-as-uk-shoplifting-epidemic-hits-400m-in-just-1-year\/ar-AA1WWFmH?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699d5035e74c49a1bef616eecdcb34c7&amp;ei=50\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Britain&#8217;s out-of-control shoplifting epidemic saw thieves steal at least \u00a3400million-worth of goods from store shelves with a staggering 5.5million recorded incidents Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/shoplifter-on-wheelchair.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85437,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85436\/revisions\/85437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}