Talking turkey: Retailers carve out plans to keep theft down on Black Friday

Retailers across the country are upping their security game, working with local law enforcement officials, adding in-store cameras, and taking other measures ahead of Black Friday so that the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season doesn't put their businesses in the red. 

Major retailers such as Target, Walgreens, CVS, and Sephora have already started to remove high-value items like perfume from store shelves and replace them with tester samples to keep people with sticky fingers away. Others have turned to self-serving locking cabinets, tethering items to steel cables, and smart shopping carts that have sensors like cameras, weight scales, and bar code scanners that allow them to detect the items customers are picking and paying for and which ones they are not.

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