Retail theft in the United States - statistics & facts
The United States, one of the largest economies in the world with a high average purchasing power among its consumers, also suffers from a considerable amount of retail theft. Retail stores like Walmart, Target, as well as small retail businesses, suffer from inventory shrinkage every single year. Inventory shrinkage, measured as retail revenue loss, is typically caused by internal and external theft, as well as human and systemic errors. Over the past five years, retailers in the United States reported, on average, an inventory shrink of one and a half percent.
