Holland & Barrett’s million-pound investment into new anti-theft technology across its store estate this year has helped to identify more than 600 repeat offenders.
The health and wellness retailer ramped up investment amid the current surge in retail crime, including bringing in 80 body cameras and new CCTV monitoring and security for 200 stores.
It also rolled out retail crime reporting platform Auror across all 780 UK and Ireland stores earlier this year.
Holland & Barrett said that since the platform’s launch over 7,000 incidents of theft, acts of aggression or violence against staff have been reported.
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It has also been able to identify over 630 repeat offenders through the platform, which the retailer said allows it to “better support positive prosecutions from the police and keep communities safer”.
Holland & Barrett head of loss prevention Mark Williams said: “This investment in loss prevention reflects our steadfast commitment to making our stores safer for our customers and colleagues.
“We recognise that retail crime is a community problem and working collaboratively to adopt the latest new technology can help us to create a better impact faster.”
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