To be fair, the entry of organized retail in the last few years has led to a different shopping experience for India's middle class.

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Likewise, it is only a matter of time before organized retail is no longer a threat but a reality for most small retailers in India.

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"These guys are getting smarter and stealing more, " LaRocca says, noting that a full 81% of U.S. retailers told the NRF they have been victims of Organized Retail Crime.

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For the anti-FDI campaigners, too, this came as something of a surprise for the same reason, although a joint parliamentary committee had underscored how small retailers had been hit by the coming of organized retail.

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One of the increasingly alarmist trends is what the industry calls "Organized Retail Crime, " usually perpetrated by groups of five to seven crooks who know a certain area intimately, and who are well versed in store security procedures.

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Once Scob's writers--most likely an organized band of code-crunchers in Russia--spotted that retail server, they were able to then implant a "Trojan horse" on it to collect credit card data and zap the info over the Internet to 16 separate computers in Russia.

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