Private investigators and emerging tech are helping to crack down on beauty’s retail crime

California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Crime Taskforce has recovered more than $41 million worth of stolen goods since the program launched in 2019. 

The task force is just one of many that have been launched across the country in the last few months as part of an aggressive crackdown on organized retail crime. The issue has been splashed across social media through videos of flash-mob robberies and multi-million-dollar raids on stolen goods.

The beauty and wellness industries have avoided much of the attention until recently, when a string of multi-million-dollar beauty busts in California put the issue on full display. While firm statistics are scant, the California Highway Patrol told Glossy that beauty, wellness and fashion items rank in the top 10 categories of goods stolen in organized retail crime rings through L.A. County. 

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