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carried out against an increasing number of retail outlets in the province.\n\nOthers, he notes, have been violent holdups that have left staff members traumatized.\n\n\u201cThe crime is killing us, it\u2019s getting worse and worse,\u201d said Burns.\n\n\u201cAt some point, nobody will want to work at these stores, it\u2019s just awful . . . it\u2019s really an epidemic.\u201d\n\nOn some days, he said, multiple numbers of the company\u2019s Alberta stores are victimized.\n\nBurns said police have told him there\u2019s collaboration among the criminals and big money involved in the activity.\n\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t someone putting a mickey in their pocket when nobody\u2019s looking, it\u2019s an organized business,\u201d he said.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re into the millions of dollars lost.\u201d\n\nAs of last September, Edmonton had recorded 5,000 liquor store thefts, a 300 per cent increase over 2018.\n\nIn some cases, stores are swarmed by groups of thieves who brazenly stuff duffel bags 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