{"id":85481,"date":"2026-02-25T07:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85481"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:58:52","slug":"warning-issued-as-abuse-against-retailers-at-unacceptable-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/warning-issued-as-abuse-against-retailers-at-unacceptable-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning issued as abuse against retailers at &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; levels"},"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\/AA1WVATk.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The report warned that organised criminal gangs were increasingly targeting high-value, easily resold goods, and exploiting a lack of consequences (Gareth Fuller\/PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Incidents of violence and abuse targeting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/british-retail-consortium-government-national-living-wage-ons-b2923268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">retail workers<\/a> saw a significant reduction last year but the overall level remains the second highest on record,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/warning-issued-as-abuse-against-retailers-at-unacceptable-levels\/ar-AA1WVPiu?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699d8c5d3d514c65a42e0afee33497b7&amp;ei=107\">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>Incidents of violence and abuse targeting\u00a0retail workers saw a significant reduction last year but the overall level remains the second highest on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85481","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\/2023\/01\/Met-police.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85481","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=85481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85482,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85481\/revisions\/85482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}