In this article TGTFL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTThis is part two of a three-part series on organized retail crime. "If there's an occurrence of external theft they would steal let's say 10 bucks worth of merchandise, but if it's internal theft, it'd be 40 bucks." Internal theft also happens at warehouses and in aisles where online orders are prepared, one of the people said. However, he thinks internal theft is now "second place" to external theft. Shrink references reach a 'fever pitch'Retailers started to blame organized theft for lower profits as the industry's performance started to suffer.

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Persons: Daniel Acker, they're, Neil Saunders, GlobalData, it's, Saunders, Patrick Tormey, it'd, Sonia Lapinsky, AlixPartners, David Johnston, Janine Stichter, Fonrouge, Foot Locker, You've, Mary Dillon, Locker, Michael Nagle Organizations: Target Corp, Bloomberg, Getty, CNBC, Lehman College School of Business, National Retail Federation, Retailers, Walgreens Locations: Chicago , Illinois, drugstores, America, GlobalData, New York, U.S