Business owners in Kirkby-In-Ashfield ‘don’t feel safe or secure’ as shoplifting has risen dramatically in the town. Smaller independent businesses are being targeted as well as major stores such as Morrisons and B&M.
Lek Cheweewan, has owned a fashion store in the town centre for the past five years. She told Nottinghamshire Live that her store has experienced shoplifting many times, the most recent being a lady taking a bag worth £20 from the store. The 60-year-old said: “They take bags, clothes, and perfume. We talk to the police and they come to look here.
She added: “Sometimes people take it and put it in their bags. Sometimes it’s one, two, three people, they put it in their body or in their bag, they think it’s easy.”
