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Why Is It So Easy To Shoplift In India? 为何印度商店里盗窃频发？ Looking for the best five-fingered discount? Head to India. 想找到最厉害的商店盗窃家吗？那就到印度去吧。 For the second year in a row, a survey of retailers conducted by Britains Center for Retail Research finds the highest percentage of retail loss (from shoplifting, employee theft, accounting errors and supplier fraud) occurs in India, where 2.72% of all retail sales wind up missing. Analysts call it shrinkage. Shop owners call it stealing. So why the ease of the retail snatch? Security, for one. 由负责零售业调研的不列颠中心发起的零售商调查显示，印度所有的零售额中就有2.72%的部分被损失掉，其零售损失率连续两年位居各国首位。其中零售损失包括：入店行窃，员工行窃，会计错误，和供应商欺诈。分析家称这种现象为“缩水”。店主则称之为失窃。那么，为什么印度商店易发生失窃呢？安全因素就是其中一个原因。 Indian shops have yet to learn how to adequately safeguard themselves against thieves, according to the Economist, which reports shrinkage in 2010 had already cost retailers $107 billion worldwide by June, when the data was gathered. (Just one year after the Global Retail Theft Barometer report named India the most shoplifting country of 2009.) To protect small businesses, the country is largely closed to most foreign retail chains, but because these small businesses can lack the surveillance resources of the superstores that frequent our shopping malls in U.S., shoplifters are that much harder to catch. 据《经济家》统计数据显示，印度2010年（仅《全球零售盗窃晴雨表》把它命名为全球入店行窃最高发国一年后）的“缩水”已造成全球零售商1,700亿美元的损失，为此，印度商店管理者不得不学习借鉴如何防盗。为了保护小型商铺，印度已经大幅度的把小型商店改造成像国外那样的零售连锁店，但由于中小型商店不如美国那些大型超市那样监控有力，因此要在这些商店逮住行窃者是很难的。 Still, its unfair to slam an entire country with a sticky finger superlative. The inefficiency of retailer suppliers, internal accounting errors and an increasing rate of employee theft all weigh in on Indias high shrinkage score. And in a country that actually values the mom-n-pop, maybe higher-than-average hazards of doing said business seem like smaller issues. 此外，把一个国家抨击为“商店行窃最高发国”是不公平的。但印度方面无力解决零售供应诈骗，会计差错，和日益增长的员工偷窃问题的现状无疑是加重了其“缩水”的程度。此外，虽然从事零售给印度带来的一些危害损失也许会高于其它国度，但对于这样一个重视零售业的国度来讲，这些损失对他们而言也无非是个小问题罢了。 Notes: