Shoplifting Cost German Retailers $2.7 Billion in 2010
New research from the EHI Retail Institute suggests that light-fingered Germans stole goods worth a total of 1.9 billion euros ($2.77 billion) last year, says a Deutsch Welle report.
The study, which extrapolated data collected from 88 German retail chains, put daily shoplifting losses at more than 5 million euros ($7.3 million).