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Number of folk just generally on the rob is way up, lots of cars being taken 'for scrap' (well its theft, but somehow 'accidentally thought it was scrap' seems to get them out of any kind of sentence happens a lot.
Tried beefing up my own business insurance policy, amount of clauses and caveats that lets them weasel out of their obligation vs seriously increased premiums means for a lot of folk its not worth the extra for the 'cover' they provide.
Sorry to hear about the problems for your LBS, as you say there is more to it than just the loss of stock, esp this year when bikes and components are in the same category as hens teeth and rocking horse shit. It just seems that there is very little deterrent in place to make people think twice about this sort of thing, and due to high demand I imagine the rewards are quite high for those profiting from such thefts.