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How Stolen Goods End Up On Amazon, eBay And Facebook Marketplace

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A Louis Vuitton with every item swiped from the shelves in San Francisco's Union Square.

A nearby Nordstrom robbed by 80 people the next day.

Similar sprees on Chicago's Magnificent Mile and Rodeo Drive in L.A.

They're actively looking for about 30 people who are trying to break into other stores.

Theft is nothing new, but a recent spree of coordinated, big scale robberies has law enforcement and retailers warning

this is not simple shoplifting by those in need.

The police say this is a professional crew connected to a six state crime spree.

It's organized retail crime by professional crews and it's on the rise for one big reason.

What fuels this as an enterprise is the ease of

reselling stolen merchandise on online marketplaces.

While punishments for shoplifters are hotly debated, there's growing consensus around a solution that holds an entirely

different group accountable: the online sites where stolen goods are sold, primarily Amazon, eBay, and Facebook

marketplace, which all say they're already doing a lot to stop this.

EBay is not a place to hide yourself and try and offload some of this stuff.

It used to be you have to go to a pawn shop.

You have to go find a place to sell it at a flea market.

Now you have the ability to ship it from your home.

20 major retailers, including Home Depot, Best Buy, Walgreens, and Kroger, sent a letter to Congress in

December asking them to crack down on online marketplaces by requiring stricter verification of sellers.

My ask for the online community is just do more right.

CNBC went to Home Depot to see the new tech and decades-old solutions it's now using to stop theft.


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