Cost-of-Living Crisis Drives More to Buy Black Market Food
• Increasing numbers of people turning to black market for food as prices rise • Meat, cheese, confectionery among items being stolen from shops and lorries to sell • Retailers reporting record levels of shoplifting, costing £1bn this year • People more willing to buy stolen goods, using "neutralization" to justify actions • Police and government launching new initiative to target organized retail crime gangs