Shoplifting Forces Corner Shops to Raise Prices to Pay for CCTV
17th March 2026
Corner shops are being forced to impose an 11p “crime tax” on every sale, to combat a shoplifting epidemic.
Shopkeepers spent a record £313m to keep their stock secure and their staff safe in the past year, up from £265m in 2024.
Many have had to put up prices to fund CCTV, security tagging, protective screens, facial recognition cameras and AI store monitoring, while also covering the losses they suffer from theft.
Socialist governments make no effort to prevent ‘property crimes’ because they don’t believe that people ought to have a right to private property, much less private property used in business.