11.   Losses from employee theft rose much more swiftly.

12.   Most business owners want the equipment to monitor and discourage employee theft, he said.

13.   Most employee thefts occurred at the cash register, followed by the sales and service area, customer service, back room and cash office, respectively.

14.   Much of the information it collects about employee theft and shoplifters is provided by the retailers themselves, to be shared with other retailers.

15.   More than half of the loss comes from employee theft, whether in the warehouse, in the accounting or at the cash register.

16.   Retailers are also spending millions of dollars a year on new technology to combat employee theft, a category of spending that barely existed a decade ago.

17.   Retailers reported a surge in employee theft last year, according to the latest National Retail Security Survey by the University of Florida.

18.   Such a leap of theft hit me recently as I was winding my way through one Web site after another, each devoted to employee theft.

19.   The only two known instances of employee theft under the program have been in Arizona.

20.   Employee theft has contributed to the problem, he said.