Recent shoplifting arrests
at area malls that led police to recover everything from Abercrombie
& Fitch shirts to Victoria’s Secret perfume had one thing in common.
The thieves used shopping bags lined with aluminum foil to bypass
anti-theft detectors.
— On July 15, Boca Raton officers arrested three people who allegedly used the bags to steal more than $2,000 worth of clothing, jewelry and perfume from several stores at the Town Center mall.
Booster-bagging
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— On July 15, Boca Raton officers arrested three people who allegedly used the bags to steal more than $2,000 worth of clothing, jewelry and perfume from several stores at the Town Center mall.
| Booster bag |
What is a booster bag?
Today shoplifting with tinfoil lined shopping-bags has no doubt become the single most costly kind of shoplifting - now known under the name Booster Bagging.
But the bag is not anymore an ordinary shopping bag. Smart shoplifters use more and more all kinds of tinfoil lined containers, bags hidden under the jacket or even tinfoil lined clothes.
But the bag is not anymore an ordinary shopping bag. Smart shoplifters use more and more all kinds of tinfoil lined containers, bags hidden under the jacket or even tinfoil lined clothes.
An effective tool
The advantages of booster-bags are that anybody can make one in less
than 10 minutes, no existing anti-shoplifting system is able to detect a
security tag inside a well made booster-bag and it takes only seconds
to fill up the bag with expensive merchandise and walk undetected out of
the shop! Most booster-bags are so well made that they have to be cut
up or passed through a metal detector in order to verify the presence of
tinfoil. Even the smartest bags from houses such as Prada and Louis
Voutton can be shielded nicely with tinfoil under the original lining so
that the tinfoil is completely hidden!
No trace - no problem?
When shoplifters cut off a security tag or open it with an illegal detacher the tag will be found somewhere in the shop.
When a booster-bagger stuffs 10 expensive shirts or DVDs into his bag no traces are left - only empty hangers or shelves!
Therefore it is very difficult to know how big the problem really is.
After many years of experience we know that it is much much bigger than most retailers think.
When a booster-bagger stuffs 10 expensive shirts or DVDs into his bag no traces are left - only empty hangers or shelves!
Therefore it is very difficult to know how big the problem really is.
After many years of experience we know that it is much much bigger than most retailers think.
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