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Here’s How Much Walmart Loses Every Year to Theft

Walmart is fighting back against «unknown shrinkage».

When you’re a company as big as Walmart, everything about you is huge, even your losses from shoplifting.

The retailing giant says that it loses about $3 billion every year from theft, or 1% of its $300 billion in revenue, Reuters reports.

Leading the effort to fight back against this so-called «shrinkage» is Greg Foran, head U. S. operations, who told reporters Thursday that cutting down on these loses was a key priority for the firm in coming months.

«One percent of $300 billion is quite a lot of money. If you can save 10 basis points of it — boy I’ll take it every day of the week and put it into lower prices for customers,» Foran said to Reuters.



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Here’s How Much Walmart Loses Every Year to Theft