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Carl W. Pilgrim, a Coop loss prevention agentand store detective, says the store's percentageloss has been steadily decreasing since it hit ahigh of seven percent...
...rare to find him in his office as he wason a recent Thursday evening, sitting amid thefile cabinets containing folders on every offendercaught at the Coop from...
Pilgrim estimates that "the Pit crowd," histerm for the group of people who loiter outsidethe Harvard Square T entrance, is responsible for60 percent of theft from the Coop. He attributesthis to the high incidence of drug use heperceives among this group. "There are a lot ofkids selling books for drug money," he says...
Even though the yearly loss at the Coop mayseem high, other stores report more worrisomenumbers...
Pilgrim says that Harvard students make upabout ten percent of the Coop's shoplifters.That's out of about 15 to 20 percent of generalsales generated by Harvard students, according toAssistant General Manager Scott R. Montgomery...