During an interview with store owner Benedict Selvaratnam, ITV News captured the shocking moment a shoplifter stole from the corner store. Retailers say shoplifting is costing them hundreds of millions of pounds a year, and that is pushing up prices for ordinary paying customers. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Young businessmen or women will want to go into business.
00:07 I think he's stealing the egg.
00:10 Hello, excuse me. Did you take it?
00:13 Did you take it?
00:15 Take it.
00:17 They're so brazen that no one's going to challenge them.
00:24 That's what tells me, they're clearly getting away with doing this kind of thing.
00:28 And so when we're challenging them, it's almost like, what are you doing?
00:32 You don't need to challenge us. We're used to just walking in and out.
00:36 So this is just another example of what we face.
00:39 We have many incidences where it escalates.
00:46 Where they'll be violent and aggressive and abusive to my staff.
00:50 And this is what they're facing day in and day out.