« Affiliate marketing delivers the most cost-effective customer acquisition | Home | Government finally catches up to retailers on light bulbs »
New survey shows 50 per cent rise in violence against shop staff
Retailers and shop workers are calling on the Home Secretary to back their call for local authorities and police forces to make retail crime a higher priority.
The move comes as new figures are released today (Wednesday) showing an increase in threats and acts of violence against shop staff.
The figures, compiled by the British Retail Consortium (BRC), show a fifty percent increase in incidents of physical violence against shop workers in the past year. Over the same period recorded threats of violence against staff have more than doubled.
Retailers and the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) will present these preliminary findings from the BRC’s Annual Crime Survey to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith at their Shop-Crime Fringe Meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth today (Wednesday).
The interim findings show that:
• Violent acts against staff are up 50 per cent.
• Threats of violence against staff have doubled.
• The number of incidents per store has shot up by 18 per cent.
• Incidents of verbal abuse decreased by 6 per cent.
Topics: high street |
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.