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Beyond Padlocks: How Beauty Retail Security is Getting Smarter

Shopping for beauty relies on customers’ ability to touch, smell and play. Rising levels of theft are threatening that experience, and the solutions could fundamentally shift the way we shop.
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Retailers are having to change tack when it comes to everything from merchandising to store layout in order to control rising theft levels. (Shutterstock)

In a TikTok video from the summer, an employee at Boots, the Walgreens-owned drugstore in the UK, proudly shows off her new work swag.

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