2014 Global Retail Theft Barometer finds slight decrease in shrink worldwide, increase in costs of retail crime in the U.S.: "While shrink in the U.S. also declined from 1.5 percent to 1.48 percent, the cost of retail crime in the country as a percentage of revenue rose 27 percent to 1.74 percent last year from 1.37 percent in 2012. The results of the survey were based upon phone and written surveys conducted in 24 countries among 222 retailers representing more than $740 billion in sales in 2013."
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