Keeping products under lock and key dissuaded customers from purchasing them, Walgreens said in earnings call.

Lock-up agreements prohibit company insiders (founders, directors, executive officers and major stockholders) and other pre-IPO stockholders ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- While many big-box chains now lock up merchandise as a means of combatting theft -- requiring shoppers ...

Shoplifting rates in the three largest U.S. cities — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — remain higher than they were before ...

Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Tim Wentworth conceded that locking up products in order to combat retail theft had a negative impact on stores. During an earnings call on Friday, executives ...

"When you lock things up … you don't sell as many of them. We've kind of proven that pretty conclusively," Wentworth said. "I ...