Is there a shoplifting disaster? What you should learn about retail crime.

You will have observed the laundry and cleansing aisles at your grocery retailer are almost empty. Or possibly you’ve needed to begin presenting your receipt when exiting the market.

Goal, Walmart and different giant chains are blaming rising crime and violence for a heap of retailer closures. In the meantime, House Depot, Lowe’s, Greenback Tree, Dick’s Sporting Items and Ulta have all raised issues about disappearing stock — referred to as “shrink” — of their final spherical of earnings calls. Retailers routinely inventory deodorant and name-brand shampoo in plexiglass cages. And a latest report by the Nationwide Retail Federation discovered that “retail crime, violence and theft proceed to influence the retail trade at unprecedented ranges.”