Retailers also need to collaborate with each other, e.g. within
the Retail Consortium and with external credit agencies on the
issue of controlling and reducing the problems engendered
by de-shopping with a greater capacity to set up a central
database to screen transactional data for repeat offenders and
to prosecute serious offences. Retailers could emphasize that
there will be a crackdown to stamp out fraudulent returns and
that dishonest customers could be prosecuted in the courts.