Retailing: The Shopkeeper's Big Headache

In Atlanta, a preacher who had al ready looted a sackful of Bibles was trailed to a grocery, where he tried to make off with a dozen steaks. In Hous ton, an irate father brought his two daughters back to a department store, to gether with the $460 worth of clothes they had shoplifted. In San Francisco, a family of 1 5 — including mother, broth ers, sisters and cousins — swept through a department store and collected hundreds of dollars worth of goods. Detectives who trailed them found that the father was waiting...

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