From designer handbags to Netflix – the items that are stolen are an interesting mix of high-end luxury items and every day commodities.

An employee can be fired if they are aware of a co-worker’s misconduct and does not inform a manager. This is according to a recent analysis by law firm Wright Rose Innes which looked at a case where the owner of a big general store discovered that some of the other till operators were overcharging customers and pocketing the difference.

A former senior executive of Boxer Superstores, a subsidiary of Pick n Pay, who was in charge of importing meat for all 250 stores in SA, has been accused of taking kickbacks from suppliers.

Is this a portent of things to come?

One of Zimbabwe’s supermarket chains has come up with a curious way of catching female shoplifters.

Following the recent bomb scares in and around Woolworths stores in Durban, the giant retailer announced that it would be conducting searches of customers.

The people who planted a suspicious device inside the Spar in Durban’s Wentworth suburb had demanded a ransom – and used a 10-year-old boy to deliver a chilling message that there was a bomb hidden somewhere in the busy shop.

“We can confirm that we found an explosive device in our Westville Pavilion store late on Wednesday night and Gateway store on Thursday. The device in the Pavilion store caused a fire in a section of our menswear department, which was extinguished quickly and no one was injured.

Police are probing two cases of arson after dual attacks on Woolworths stores in the Gateway and Pavilion Malls in Durban.