Director of Loss Prevention, Pep Boys Inc.
Owner of Colucci Investigations
* Participants: 22 large retail companies with 19,151 stores and over $570 billion in retail sales (2008).
* Apprehensions: 904,226 shoplifters and dishonest employees were apprehended in 2008, up 7.26% from 2007.
* Recovery Dollars: Over $182 million was recovered from apprehended shoplifters and dishonest employees in 2008, up 21.64% from 2007.
* Shoplifter Apprehensions: 832,106 shoplifters were apprehended in 2008, up 7.65% from 2007.
* Shoplifter Recovery Dollars: Over $113 million was recovered from apprehended shoplifters in 2008, an amazing 30.24% increase from 2007.
An additional $37.2 million was recovered from shoplifters where no apprehension was made, up 9.08% from 2007.
* Employee Apprehensions: 72,120 dishonest employees were apprehended in 2008, up 3.01% from 2007.
* Employee Recovery Dollars: Over $69.8 million was recovered from employee apprehensions in 2008, up 9.9% from 2007.
* One in every 30 employees was apprehended for theft from their employer in 2008. (Based on over 2.1 million employees.)
* On a per case average, dishonest employees steal a little over 7 times the amount stolen by shoplifters ($969.14 vs $135.81).