Stacey Dole says, I cannot hold my teenage shop right,

Are we changing in a nation of shopkeepers? It is a question that Stacey Dole asked in his latest documentary.

The presenter revealed that he himself was purchased as a teenager, as part of the BBC program on the increase in retaliation in Britain.

Dole says that she will steal eyeliner and kajal at the age of 13 or 14.

She says, “It should not have been mentioned in the documentary”.

“There is not a world where I can sit here and try and justify it, you know, there was no reason, there was no need for me to behave in this way.”

She says “she was not thinking of girls on the shop floor” and “not thinking about anyone other than herself”.

Documentary – The Nirman spent eight months in view of the increase in shopkeeping in the UK – and says “Shoplifting has never been very bad.”

According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), retail theft and violence and misuse towards shop workers are increasing.

Based on the latest weighted BRC-Oninim Survey with 2,000 participants, BRC estimates that about a quarter (24%) of the UK population was observed from 12 months to February 2025.

In Meet shopkeepersDole asks shoplifters about their inspirations. Some people see it as the act of disregarding against large corporations, while others say they find it “really derogatory”, but do this to achieve things like diapers and milk for their children.

A shopkeeper Dole spoke, for example, there was a mother who was stealing milk and bread to feed her child. “He was filled with guilt,” says about the mother. “This sheer was out of frustration.”

BRC’s Tom Holder says that shopkeeping in the UK is getting worse and worse, saying: “We are now only reaching new heights. People think they can get away with it, without results.”

Recently, BRC survey also estimated that 23% of customers saw physical or oral misconduct of shop workers in February 2025 a year. This may include racial or sexual abuse, physical attacks or danger with weapons.

Dole spoke to the retail worker Dips, who works in a cosmetics store in Manchester, and says “as has gone every year, it has deteriorated for us”.

“This is not a victim crime. A person always pays the price below the line for it. And for us, it is the employees here,” she says.

Dolay also explains how shoplifting is being documented on social media. She says, “We have seen that shop assistants you know, misbehave orally, physically abuse.”

BRC CEO Helen Dickinson said that while an event “may end in a second case”, on its experiences can be “lifetime results”, making them think twice about going to their local high roads.

While talking to shoplifters, Dole says that some of them “do not even look at it as a crime”.

And she says that on social media, some people use the hashtag to advise other shopkeepers.

But shoplifting cost UK Retailers £ 2BN in a year, A recent estimate,

And the holder says that the shoplifting puts pressure on retail prices, saying: “That money has to come from somewhere, so it ends what we buy.”