Local merchants learn to protect against shoplifters by Amanda
Stegall Oct 19, 2011 | 1028 views | 0 0 comments | 4 4
recommendations | email to a friend | print As the Christmas
holiday shopping season approaches, shoplifting and petty thefts
are expected to increase. Anticipating potential crime, the
Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce hosted a
shoplifting seminar Tuesday morning to bring shoplifting
awareness to local small business owners.  "We're coming into
that time of year where thefts will be on the rise,"
Cartersville Police Capt. Jeff Black said. "Unfortunately,
shoplifting is a yearlong thing but it does pick up during the
holidays and shoplifting is the most common theft in Georgia
mainly because it is so easy to do."  Black explained the
state's shoplifting laws, sharing merchant rights in regard to
confronting suspects as well as the various things people can do
that are still considered to be shoplifting.  "Most of the time
they conceal it," Black said. "But they can alter price tag