ROCHESTER, N.Y. — This consumer alert looks at the price we pay for shoplifting. Retailers say a confluence of events has led to a dramatic increase in shoplifting, not the least of which is inflation ...

MOBILE, Ala. — Crystal Thompson was at home watching the Rose Bowl parade when a county sheriff came to arrest her on a charge of shoplifting from the local Walmart. She was taken to a Mobile jail, ...

She was taken to a Mobile jail, searched, held in a small room and required to remove her false teeth, something she didn’t even do in front of her husband. Four days after she returned home, the ...