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Boutiques use cameras, interaction to stifle upswing in theft at holidays
Vigilance helps stop theft
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Jackie Slaughter, a regular customer of Gypsy Threads Boutique, looks at items on one of the racks in the store. While the manager of the boutique doesn't see shoplifting occur often in the store, she interacts with everyone who enters to ensure they know she is around, and she knows many of the customers personally from interacting with them during their visits. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Cameras, cameras and more cameras. That’s how most boutique shops in Gainesville are combating sticky fingers and missing merchandise throughout the year, not just at Christmastime when shoplifters might be most tempted. Store manager Samantha Rotunno said Gypsy Threads, a shop off Thompson Bridge Road, doesn’t have a huge problem with theft.