Jun 17, 2024 - News
Mapped: Retail theft hotspots
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The Macy's and Nordstrom Rack in Center City are two of the city's most-targeted retail stores, per Axios' Jared Whalen's analysis of police retail theft data between 2017 and May of this year.
- Rittenhouse Square (5,590) and Washington Square West (3,790) had the most reported retail thefts of any neighborhood over this period.
- Other hard-hit areas include: Tacony, Rhawnhurst and Wissinoming in Northeast Philly; Girard Estates in South Philly; and the Riverfront neighborhood along the Delaware River, including Penn's Landing.
Between the lines: Retailers have started locking up merchandise, installing security gates and AI-equipped cameras, hiring off-duty cops, and using receipt scanners and license plate recognition to catch thieves.
- Evers says Macy's has a strict policy for reporting retail thefts, which likely explains why the store logged the most cases over that period.