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Evening Standard
Josie Clarke

Violence and abuse against retailers falls by a fifth, but ‘unacceptably high’

A police van on patrol in Oxford. (Alamy/PA) -

Violence and abuse against retail workers fell by a fifth last year – but remained at its second highest level on record, figures show.

Incidents involving physical violence against retail staff remained largely unchanged from the previous year, at 118 per day, and there were on average 36 incidents per day involving a weapon, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Crime Report.

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