Talk to any newsagent and they will tell you that teenage boys are those most likely to steal products. The data suggests otherwise. Women’s magazines are stolen more often and I’d bet that these are being stolen by women and not teenage boys. Sure there are adult magazine plastic covers left on the floor, but Woman’s Day and New Idea have no plastic cover so the only evidence is in the data and few newsagents look at theft data to understand the nature of the problem. Women and tidy thieves too, they leaf little in the ay of tracks. Boys rifle through adult, sports and computer magazines and make it look life a theft scene but the reality is these categories generate less theft for newsagents.